What do fiction books have

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How far back do your copies of the Birmingham News go? Is tax help available? My favorite authors are those who obviously care about their readers. They are more concerned with entertaining or teaching than showing off techniques.

To my favorite authors, the reader experience is paramount. I want to emulate these writers. I want the reader to be my priority as well.

To help me better serve my readers, I decided to take a step back and ask—why do readers read? And specifically, why do we read fiction? Other times she needs to literally escape her own thoughts. So she turns to books. Sometimes people are just literally alone. When a person is lonely, the intimacy of books can show him that there are others like him out there.

Or that there are others who feel the way that he feels. Reading about aliens invading the universe can put your problems in perspective—I mean you literally could be dealing with the end of the world. Of the 94 books Bill Gates recommended over a seven-year period, only nine of them are fiction.

How Books Shape Employee Experiences One reason fiction works so well in the workplace is that characters, plots, and settings in foreign locales help anchor difficult discussions. The narrative allows participants to work through sensitive and nuanced issues in an open and honest manner. Authentic sharing often means just putting folks together to discuss engaging texts.

Badaracco told HBR IdeaCast in that fiction provides an opportunity to complicate standard good versus evil tropes. Good literature presents characters with competing and often equally valid viewpoints.

Business books, by their very nature, boil down issues until they are binary: this is right and that is not. For instance, those seeking robust discussion about community connection might read Kindred by Octavia Butler, a science fiction novel that addresses the ways in which race shapes individual experience.

The point of reading in this way is to develop cognitive agility and acuity. They also produce fewer individual hypotheses about alternative explanations, which makes them more confident in their own initial and potentially flawed beliefs. While settings, plot points, and characters in fiction are sometimes based on real-life events or people, writers use such things as jumping off points for their stories.

For instance, Stephen King sets many of his stories and novels in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. King has even created an entire topography for Derry that resembles the actual topography of Bangor. Additionally, science fiction and fantasy books placed in imaginary worlds often take inspiration from the real world.