For artists who read, do you get inspired to create by the books you read? I’m especially curious about art that isn’t a literal translation of a book (like fanart) but more as a response to it.

Which do you find yourself being inspired by the most? Characters, settings, atmosphere, themes, or something else?

I'm trying to push myself to paint every day, just for practice. I typically create bigger projects but I'm testing myself to do more smaller, less time intensive pieces. I've been inspired by a couple books lately, mostly the atmosphere and themes, and it got me thinking because I tend to see more character art than anything. Do we just not advertise it as much?

If you make art: how do the books you read show up in your work, even when no one else would recognize the reference? If you don’t: do you notice certain books changing the way you see art?

Also I would absolutely haaaaate if you posted pictures of your bookish art 👀

Talk art to me!

I've only recently learned the term as I get back into reading again and the concept was so funny to me.

For those that don't know, hate reading something is, to my understanding, continuing to read a book despite hating every second of it.

So far I've only experienced this one time and the reason I didn't fully DNF it (as I plan to return to the book here in the next few days for a personal project) was because I was oddly entertained at how much I hated a book that has a 4 star average rating on goodreads and here, while everyone else seems to love the characters and story.

I'm curious if others have had a book turn into a hate read, or what others' opinions are on hate reading. I don't think I would do it by choice outside of my personal project, but there has been an odd sense of entertain value in reading something that I had a supremely polarizing opposite opinion of to so many other people.

Today's question is simple and fun. It's another round of random sentences. Open the book nearest to you, flick to a random page. What is the first full sentence?

"She was accepted but as less than." - Invoking the Blood by Kalista Neith

hi! i've not found a post on this topic, so i want to ask you a question: when you rate a book, what do you base it on?

for example, i don't expect a very complex world-building from certain genres like romantasy, to me, it's the relationship of the characters that is more important in these types of books. so i wouldn't rate how good it is in general, on some universal scale of how close it is to a 'masterpiece' so to say, but rather if it's good enough for its specific genre.

do you rate it differently? like, maybe based on how it impacted you? or how good the writing is? maybe some other criteria?

i'm very curious to learn what your approaches are :)

What are your most-read authors?

I think the three authors from whom i've read the most books are Tahereh Mafi (9 Books), Leigh Bardugo and Jennifer L. Armentrout (both 7 Books). I've also read a lot by the German author Sebastian Fitzek, but i don't know how many of his books i've read. I think at least 9 or 10.

helloooo beautiful peeps Ramadan Mubarak for all the muslim girlies here btw. I actually wanted to ask and talk I guess about something I'm noticing with fantasy. I have a couple of ARCS that I asked for because they were tagged as fantasy and the premise sounded interesting. I'm reading them and while I can see glimpses of fantasy ALL of them feel more like historical fiction, which I don't hate but I am not the biggest fan. I also just feel like most fantasy doesn't feel fantastical anymore, like you could remove the "fantasy elements" and the story would work just the same. Do you feel this way? Do you have book recs with fantasy that FEELS like fantasy?