This Thanksgiving, I’m giving thanks for you wonderful readers. And in celebration of the season, I’m hosting a very special contest. Want to participate? Just answer this question in the comments section below:
“Why does fiction make you thankful?”
Are your favorite books a means of escape? Are great stories the way you connect with the world? Do books bring you closer to the people in your life? Share your perspective below for a chance to win this gorgeous box set of all four Fallen books. Good luck! Happy Turkey Day! And thank you so much for another wonderful year!
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I am thankful for my fiction books, because they give me a chance to escape from the stress of school and work for a while, into worlds filled with different possibilities. I fall in love with characters who have struggles similar to mine, and I don’t feel alone in the world, since someone’s feelings match my own. My favorite books have made me laugh, cry, scream with excitement, leave me in shock, and I always end up staying awake until five in the morning, swearing that I’ll on read one more chapter. Most of all, I love my books, because they give me hope that, whatever bad things are going on and it seems like they’ll never get better, that I just need to keep going. I actually keep a book full of quotes from all my favorites for the rough days. I hope to become an author to bring this same enjoyment to more people, with lessons that make them reflect on life, and appreciate those around them.
Fiction makes me thankful because it helps me get away from my life for a few hours and escape into someone else’s. Throughout my childhood, there was so much pain, neglect, abuse, and very little love. I use to lock myself in my room even as a toddler and read books to try and ignore the screaming coming from outside my door. To be able to have a means of escape from THAT horror was amazing for me and, looking back on it, probably saved my life. My sister didn’t read and she ended up in so much trouble through interfering in my parents’ fighting. Many people said I was the good kid. Others say I was so strong for being so little and going through what I did. But I know the truth: books were my escape. My literary getaway.
Hello, a fan from Holland here!
Fiction is amazing, I just love how my mind can make a beautiful movie in my head, while reading the words someone wrote. I love to be dragged into to story and feel so much with all the characters. It is an escape, perhaps to a better world, then the one we live in. I also write myself, I’m thankful for just all the inspiration, reading different ways, point of views, learning words. Books are just all amazing, fiction is just, the world someone created for you to come and explore.
I recently started reading this serious, waiting for book number 2, to be in my mailbox. I really, really love this serious. I love all the romance and the strong emotions between the two people. I really didn’t expect to like this book so much. Thanks a lot for writing this, and greetings from Holland!
I am thankful to fiction (mainly paranormal) for the escape, I am bored with daily life, and need the extra that the paranormal fiction books provide. I love it. I hope you will continue to write amazing books like this series.
I usually say that reading is to travel, because that’s how it works for me. Each book is a door to a new place. Inside or outside this planet, known or not, and we never have certainty that we find to open them. A sort of Pandora’s box, I’d say. Anyway, reading is much more than just read the words printed on paper, is to see the world through the eyes of others and often feel the same as the character. Reading is living. Find loves, battles, adventures, do good things (and err on occasion) and this is something that no cinema screen can bring us, at least not with such vividness and intimacy, because no one will ever be able to see a book and his characters the same way as you. Maybe like, but never 100%. Let me quote the beloved John Green: “Books belong to their readers” and that is why (for me) reading is more than a simple addiction; Fiction is the manifestation of love that all writers have and share with us. Is our love to read and this is something that is priceless.
I’m thankful for fiction because it’s a escape. A place to let your mind wander and try new things that the real world just can’t offer you. A place were anything can and will happen and will lead you on a rollercoaster of emotion and feeling and thoughts. Anything is possible in A fictional book because they know no boundaries. Unlike in a non-fiction book that must stay true to the facts. For me, when I find a really good fiction story, I want to be apart of the characters world. I also find myself wanting more and more of the series or type of book. Fiction books allow me to escape to another reality other than my own. I’m also thankful for fiction books because there are an endless supply of them. In every city of every state of every country there are different types of Fictions and they all pull at our emotions differently.
I also love fanfictions. They let you feel like you know that celebrity and give you a sense of closeness that you may not otherwise have. Fan-fictions let you imagine what those celebrities are really like, how they act, and what they might do at any given time.
In the end i’m just plain ol’ thankful for Fiction book.. Not for A particular reason but because they allow me to escape everyday life at any given time or at any given place. Oh and A thank you to Lauren Kate who writes beautiful book that I read in a day because they’re so intriguing and lovely and I can’t get enough of them. I can’t wait to read Rapture
I’m thankful for fiction because it keeps my mind open like a child often does. It exercises my imagination and brings me to places that only the mind can go…
I already posted on goodreads but i didn’t know if i should post on here sooo…..
Fiction makes me thankful because it allows me to relieve myself the troubles of reality, it allows me to imagine a world without boundaries, a world that which contains more joy and excitement than the one in which we live. Fiction has also taught me life lessons, and how to be a tougher person both physically and mentally. As a teenager who has a lot on their plate, fiction has also taught me to keep my head up during the most stressful times, and reminded me that i must focus on achieving my dreams no matter the obstacles that may appear. Fiction also is amazing because it makes you truly think, a good author may have you think “Well who’s to say this creature doesn’t exist” because of how well their story is thought out. Along with making you actually think, fiction can give you HOPE. Whether it’s a character overcoming a bad situation similar to yours, or if it’s something as simple as making you feel grateful for what you have, fiction can truly be a good thing for everyone.
I am thankful for fiction because without it I don’t think I would be alive. It helped me to get through a dark period of my life. It was my escape from a world that was unfair and cruel. When people say YA saves, they are so right. Thanks for the giveaway and I hope you were able to spend a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones.
Dear Lauren Kate,
Fiction makes me thankful for all the things it could be. When I read a Fiction story my mind can always drift away. Fiction is the only genre i can read and be excited about. To me when I open a new book, It is has that journey to a distant planet vibe. You never know what you are going to find. But it’s not just about what you will find, but how you found it. If it took the death of those close or the discovery form one’s far, Fiction could lead you blindly towards each. Thankful does not even begin to cover how much i appreciate Fiction. I am a 13 year old girl and absolutely admire the Fiction genre, I am so thankful not only to the books, but the one’s creating the outstanding tales behind them. Authors like yourself make the stories worth reading, without you there would be no Fiction. So this it to you Mrs.Kate thank you so much for being an author, you and your youthful meathod of writing make people like me enjoy reading. I hope you have a wonderful Thanks Giving and I am thankful for Fiction because of you.
Sincerely,
Savana Rolle
I love fiction and im very thankful for it. Its a great way to escape from reality, its a great company. I can play with my imagination and the author’s imagination even at all hours of the night, staying up and just reading, going with the story’s flow and letting it take me to different places. When reading fiction (Fallen series as my favorite although I read some series too) its like Im in my own fantasy world and leaving the world behind even just for a moment. It makes me love and more amaze with this world for producing great stories from great authors like Ms Lauren Kate. It also helps us get connected with people specially when I share the book with my friends and we talk ’bout the best parts of the books! Specially teen fiction love stories!
Fiction makes me thankful because it allows me to imagine and escape to another world. Fiction allows me to open my mind and believe in things or contemplate things that others would right away deem as untrue. Without fiction, I would not have the imagination I do today. I am thankful for fiction because without it, I would not love books as much as I do now.
Fiction make me thankful because in this harsh and stressful lifestyle we now all have, reading or watching fiction stories makes me fell like i’ve escaped reality, i’m in an another world where i want to be. It is where you can find your other selves. Some authors even used fictions as the most superficial states of their current situation. Fictions can also give you life lessons . I’m really thankful for fiction for inspiring many people and making their lives better.
fiction makes me thankful because it transports you to another world, makes you forget everything, and just can make you very happy
books are the best!!
I really love your books so far I’ve read Fallen and Torment and I’m in the middle of reading Passion but what book comes next because theres Fallen in Love and Rapture and Im just confused what comes next.
I am thankful for fiction books because they inspire me to think beyond what the world has created me to think. It makes me think out of the box and experience out of this world thoughts. The books make me feel like there is more to everything that is around us and it broadens my mind to realize these things even though they may not be real, the possibility is still there along with the thrill of curiosity.
“Why does fiction make you thankful?”
Fiction makes me thankful because it allows me to relax and get away. Some days are too heckit and the only way for me to relax is to go to another world. It gives me a peace at mind and I enjoy reading anywhere any any time of day.
Are your favorite books a means of escape?
Yes!! They are the ones that are nice and worn and they make me escape from real life. They show me that life can be what we make of it and to never give up. My friends and family know when I go back to my favorites that I need alone time.
Are great stories the way you connect with the world?
Kinda.. reading great stories can show me another way of life. I just finished the book: Sarah’s Key and it showed me that I should never take what I have for granted. The main character was a little girl in the 1940′s in Paris, France. She was Jewish and ended up in the “round up”… she was the only survivor from her whole family. This little girl showed me that I will charish every day and too love to the fullest.
Do books bring you closer to the people in your life?
Yes, they can give me advice or just show me what could happen if I did that.
I’m thankful for fiction because it saved my life. It’s not a figure of speech, it literally saved my life. At first I wouldn’t see as that. But I was sure I wanted to read the end of Harry Potter saga. And when it ended, I wanted to read the end of Princess Diaries. And then I saw that marvelous little book about fallen angels with a girl in a black dress in the cover and I had to read it.
I guess it sounds pretentious, but I can never thank authors enough, for putting up with your own dreams, for taking the time to write, for you perseverance on publishing. Because during the worst times of my depression, one thing got me through: I HAD to read. I couldn’t let go of my last string of life before I read those amazing books screaming my name on library shelves. And word by word, page by page, I saw it. The world – my world – was getting brighter. Each time I would open a new – or old – book, I felt my worries going away. I had to know if Blanche was crazy, if the Salesman was going to manage, if Luce would survive the curse, if Harry would win over the war. And my world that was feeling so empty and dark and cold wouldn’t be anymore – I would feel and cheer and cry for those people that, though mere words printed for everyone else were real, more than anything that I would feel. And books made me connect. Page by page, I saw people in there. How books were a part of their authors. A part of their readers. Fiction holds reality. Fiction is not figment, it shows parts of ourselves through allegories. And so, the whole humanity connects through our minds, when we share those stories. I’m thankful for fiction because it made my life more than bearable, made my life worth it when I though I had nowhere to go, and connected with the few friends I have until today, those who love books as much as I do (like Caleb up here!). And I can only hope that I can, someday, be one of those people who share stories and help someone else.
I’m thankful to fiction for the gift it brings- It brings vividness to my reality and breathes new life into me. When I first begin a book, each turn of it’s pages envelop me, I become intertwined with the story, the characters and even the writer. Reading each word and allowing my imagination to roam the pages, being able to escape from my own reality where I feel trapped and instead, immersing myself in a whole other realm, where there aren’t any demands or limitations, where every whim and idea can flourish and be brought to life and where always having to be realistic, isn’t necessary, brings me a sense of solace and lets me reconnect with parts of myself that I’ve lost along my journey through life. Even at the end of a book or conclusion of a story, It’s messages still live on.
The strength, knowledge and enlightenment that I find in the story or in the characters, allows me to find and reveal new layers and dimensions of myself- and to get back ones that I’ve lost.
Fiction encompasses everything and I know that every book I open will challenge me, When I plunge into the fictional realm, I experience it through it’s writer, and it’s characters vantage points.
Authors like you may not even realize it, but you don’t just write a novel- You breathe life into every character and story that you create. You allow your readers – People like me – to open our hearts and our lives to your stories. Your writing promotes change in each of us and it lets me recognize new sides of myself, or sides that may just lie dormant within me- If it wasn’t for you and your books.
Fiction awakens the essence of who I am, Freeing me from my stressful, painful and stagnant reality, and awakening my imagination and my strength, So that when I close the book of fiction and return to reality, That facet of myself that lives in the fictional world, Can survive in the real world.
That’s what fiction is to me, and what makes me thankful for it.
I just love how someone can still have hope and dreams of a better and magical life.
Just to wonder how luce’s life is so romanticly complicated and wonderfully scary it makes every girl to want a life like hers; I know I do, if it would to be real.
Dear Lauren kate,
Why does fiction make me thankful?
Fiction has a world of its own.
it introduces me to my own world of imagination giving me the chance to relaxe and escape from the different concepts in life. It makes me develope as a human making me thankful as I grow in personality making me a better person. I know, no one is perfect however it gives me the oppurtunity to think how I could become a better person.Furthermore,i know no one is perfect.Fiction has a different prospective in things even though it may not be true :It’s creative and original especially how the collection fallen has a original impact to readers as it is not a book that you would be bored of or guess what may happen.
Are you favourite books a mean of esape?
Yes however it does depend on the view point of the character and the dialogue that is taking place throughout the book because without tension and the book drawing you in its not interesting or captivating to read.my other favourite is also crime and based on real life stories that people go through because I like to go through what they have been through It’s like I’m in there shoes.
Are great stories the way you connect with the world?
Yes ,it really gives me the chance to experiance their emotions and actions .It
connects me with the world because i experiance other characters therefore it gives me the opportunity to
understand different people as everyone is not the same
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(sorry if it is too long or boring thankyou for giving up your time to read this)
Dear Lauran Kate
Your are amysing!
I love your books!
Your book are something there always dó mé happy again. Your books i one off The Best things ever!!
Please write more books!!
I Will dó everthing for you make just one more book!
I love your books!! Please write more books!!
Fiction has always held a special place in my heart, I have lived a life that has been filled with memories, some that are beautiful and cannot be darkened and some that are already dark, Opening a book and beginning to read a story that someone dreamed up, having it so opposite of my reality, so many things to picture and imagine, never knowing what will happen next but being open to the many possibilities that come with starting a new book- a new story.
I often imagine myself as the main character in the book, I try to place myself in that alternate dimension, where nothing relates to my own reality, Where the world is so different in comparison to my own and that I can visit whenever I desire. I love fiction for the depths that it creates, the way each word paints a vivid picture in my mind and it feels so real.
It amazes me that writers like you begin with an idea and end up with something that can transport people like me, who are searching for an escape from their life, for a way to connect to different parts of myself, to reconnect with my emotions, some that I’ve pushed so deep within myself that I never thought I could feel them again.
That’s what makes me so thankful for fiction. I can change my own persona in reality just by being able to take a break from it and read about the journey and conquest of a fictional character, brave enough to be who she/he is, to do what she/he does. Fiction or not- The words still transpire into reality and can bring greatness to it.
I am very grateful because thanks to these books and had time to think that love is one of the greatest things in the world, because I feel that one is there in history as one of the characters and left me to dream in large suseder things in one’s life … Thanks for writing this great saga that left me to step my imaguinasion Buele …. Thanks … Now I believe more in love … <3
Im thankful for fiction because it takes you to a whole other place and lets you feel like theres a whole other world out there. It lets us get away from all of the depression and anger we were just in and turns it into a feeling of never wanting the story to end and wanting to just be left alone for the first time. Especially magical scary romance like Fallen makes you see things as if they were real, as if you can see it as a movie and fall in love with the characters
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I very thankful for fiction because they help me escape this world, escape from stress of school from stress of studying from everything!
fiction is a whole new world for me without worries or anything sometimes i cry,laugh, and get mad because i really get attached to the charachters and i see part of me in them, it help escape reality and it help think about what is importent in life, it bring me alot closer to the people around me it taught me not judge someone without seeing the story from their side Thank you!
Why i am thankful for fiction?
Because it gives me a reason to take the troubles I have in my life and make me escape from my life. It keeps my imagination going and I love the fact of angels, demons etc. cause it’s exciting. It makes you feel like your in a whole other world and make you feel like you wanna live in and think like that’s the kind of love I would love to have. To have some guy sweep you off your feet and be an angel or anything. Honestly it makes you think and get away from troubles and stresses
I never stop thinking about these books. I couldnt choose between this or Twilight sagas
I love reading these kinds books because I feel like Im travelling to different worlds that I didnt know it exist (well they really dont exist but, who knows).I love to imagine being with these characters and solve mysteries with them.Reading feels like flying.
So thank you!
adoro o livro fallen
pode-se dizer que sou a fallenática numero 1
ate agora já li fallen e tormenta ,mas falta ainda falta paixão , apaixonados e extase
serei a primeira a compra o ingrsso do filme
estarei na primeira fila
laurem muito obrigada voce me ajudou a ficar mais por dentro da literatura estrangeira
quando leio um livro me transporto para um mundo mágico em que só eu estou
eu crio os meus proprios personagens
me teletransporto para uma sala de cinema
ler um livro é com um filme que passa na sua propria cabeça
eu amo livro
livro é como uma droga na primeira provada já vicio
I am Brazilian and I’m not very good at English, but as I am a fan of the saga’ll take my chances. Thanks for the opportunity, I’ll write in Portuguese.
A ficção me leva aos meus pensamentos mais profundos, aos pensamentos que eu nunca imaginei ter. A ficção é como se fosse um refúgio, você tem um problema na sua vida e você acaba se cansando de tudo e todos e então resolve pegar um livro e ele acaba sugando todos os seus problemas pra ele, te deixando apta pra seguir a vida novamente.
Para mim o trabalho da ficção, é fazer você deixar os seus problemas de lado e vivenciar a ficção e vivenciar aquilo que não existe, você só precisa entrar na história e imaginar e não importa como seja essa sua imaginação. A única preocupação que você vai ter quando abrir um livro é de interpretar e imaginar porque o resto o livro faz por você. O livro é uma das melhores drogas já existentes.
Na ficção você cria seu própio mundo e imagina seus própios personagens. Você sente o que os personagens sentem e você vive o que eles vivem, é uma coisa muito perfeita. Se os personagens estão felizes você fica feliz também e se eles estão triste você também fica. Uma coisa que eu acho impressionante, era quando Daniel Grigori falava coisas lindas para Lucinda, eu me arrepiava toda, eu ficava feliz e era como se aquilo estivesse acontecendo comigo.
E o fato de você ler uma história de amor que envolve religião, é surpreendente. Você ler uma história na qual, lúcifer não é tão ruim quanto parece, anjos e demônios aparentemente se dão bem, e não importa o que aconteça você sempre terá o amor da sua vida perto de você, não importa quantas vezes você vai precisar morrer, é perfeito.
Fallen é perfeito. Daniel, Luce, Arianne, Cam, Gabbe, Roland, Molly, Anabelle, são totalmente Perfeitos Estranhos
Obrigada Lauren Kate, por fazer todas as leitoras e leitores de Fallen ser FALLENÁTICS com muito orgulho e obrigada também por nos fazer acreditar que The Love Never Die
I am very proud Fallenátics, that I speak on behalf of all the Brazilian fans of fallen <3 <3 <3