What sort of adaptation would you like to see a book get? TV? Movie? Graphic novel? Game? Audioplay? It doesn't have to be your favourite book; it can be your current read or just one you see potential in the plot or setting of.

My picks. I can see potential for a video game in The Sirens by Emilia Hart. With the switching perspectives, time shifts and compelling plot, it could do very well. I think there is huge potential in 100 Places to See After You Die by Ken Jennings for a multi-illustrator graphic novel collection, possibly a charity work.

Happy reading, and thanks for answering my chaos questions.

I got bored and decided to add a "bookshelf" tab to my reading spreadsheet, catalogue every book I own & mark if I've read them or not.

I was absolutely not expecting the number to be so high!! I always thought I was good at reading the books I buy, but my TBR books are higher than my finished books.

I have 117 unread books 😬 It's definitely given me a kick to start focussing on reading those. But I'm curious, does anyone have more than that? Or do you stay on top of it & keep your numbers down?

I read this recently published article by Alexandra Alter in the New York Times about AI use in publishing and I wanted to highlight some interesting quotes and see what other people thoughts on it are. Here's a link to the article without the paywall.

Quick summary of the article: A romance author used AI to publish a lot (200+) of books under different pen names, some without disclosing that they were made with AI. She's taught classes on how to use AI to publish a novel, specifically in the romance genre. Other authors have come forward to say they've used AI in some part to publish their novels, even if it's to help in the drafting/outlining process.

"She’s rolling out her proprietary A.I. writing program, which can generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month."

Truly, I am not surprised that an AI program such as this is rolling out. Disappointed, perhaps, but not surprised. It seems that much like the .com boom decades ago, many many companies are creating AIs that can fit a very specific niche and marketing it to consumers. It seems like this is only the beginning. Technology will only improve from here. Was this inevitable?

"But she predicts attitudes will soon change, and is adding three new pen names that will be openly A.I.-assisted, she said.

The way Ms. Hart sees it, romance writers must either embrace artificial intelligence, or get left behind."

Dang. Do you agree? Will authors that create novels with zero AI assistance (not even in the drafting/outlining stages) be left behind? As a reader, how do you feel about reading a novel that has had some AI assistance in the early outlining stages, but the writing itself is human created?

The article ends with the quote: "'Eventually,” Ms. West said, “readers will not care.'"

I know I definitely disagree. I'm confident that I'm always going to prefer to read something that was created by a human instead of AI.