#book asks

[terapsina]

Ask Game for us Self-proclaimed BOOK WORMS 📖🐛

Name the best book you've read so far this year.

Favorite fantasy book(s).

Favorite fantasy sub-genre(s). (high fantasy, urban fantasy, portal fantasy etc.)

Favorite science fiction book(s).

Favorite science fiction sub-genre(s). (dystopian, superhero, aliens etc.)

Favorite romance novel(s).

What kind of common romance tropes do you enjoy and what kind do you dislike?

Favorite queer fiction book(s).

Favorite detective novel(s).

Favorite classical literature.

Favorite historical fiction.

Favorite horror book(s).

Favorite thriller(s).

Favorite humor and satire book(s).

Which genre(s) are your favorite?

Favorite trilogy.

Favorite finished book series.

Favorite unfinished book series.

Do you read new and less known books or only the big bestsellers?

Where and how do you find new books to read?

The book(s) on your school reading list you actually enjoyed.

Favorite example of a Chosen One trope in a book.

Favorite heist story book(s).

Favorite Young Adult book(s).

Favorite Middle Grade book(s).

Favorite novella(s).

What was the first book you remember reading as a kid?

Goodreads or StoryGraph (or something else)?

How many books do you have on your 'to-be-read' list?

How many books do you have on your 'currently-reading' list?

Do you mostly read through e-reader; reading app on phone; on your laptop; a physical copy; or by audiobook?

Name your favorite author(s).

How often do you read by listening to audiobooks?

Favorite book narration voice actor(s).

Least favorite trope in your most favorite book genre.

Your absolute most favorite character(s) from any book you've ever read.

The only example of your least favorite trope being written in such a way that you enjoyed it.

How many books have you read this year?

Do you read reviews before picking up a book?

Did you ever want to be a writer?

When you get ready for a week long trip to somewhere how many books do you download/pack inside the suitcase?

Do you buy hardcover book copies for previously purchased paperbacks and library books you enjoyed reading?

Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.

The book(s) whose stories have become part of your very makeup.

What book(s) would you sell your soul to get a TV or movie adaptation of?

I like _____, recommend me a book to read, please (insert a book, or trope, or character, or... anything you like before asking for this one).

What are the last three books you read?

Do you leave reviews for the books you've read? How often?

Do you prefer hopeful, humorous, very emotional or darker books?

What kind of book have you never read but always hope to find at some point in the future?

[beartrice-inn-unnir]

BOOK ASK: book recs and recent reads edition

What’s something you read recently and enjoyed?

What’s something you read recently and disliked?

What’s something you read recently and wanted to argue with (either with the book or the author or the fans)?

What are your top 3 comfort reads?

What is your favorite non-fiction book?

What is your favorite book to recommend?

What book do you love but usually not recommend because it’s weird or intense, etc?

What series has most pleased you?

What series has most disappointed you?

What is your favorite genre book to recommend to someone who doesn’t usually like that genre?

What’s a book you’ve recently re-read?

What book have you re-read most often?

Send me a number and I’ll answer that question!

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

you have jacks's POV in tbona? I've been looking for it for a long time now and can't find it

SO SORRY IM LATE TO THIS I WAAS TRYING TO FIND MY OLD POST ON MY BLOG WITH IT BUT I COULDNT IM SORRY

HERES NEW PICTURES OF THE PAGES HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE

[valewritessss]

Can people send me asks about random stuff (could be pjo, kotlc, books, inanimate objects, clothing, colors, foods, school, hobbies, fanfics, apps, ships, trends, characters, tsitp, act.) and I’ll just give my opinion about it?

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

Book Ask Game!

What's your favorite book?

What's your favorite book series?

What's a book/series you love to recommend to people?

What's a book/series you would never recommend to people?

How many books have your read this year?

What's the best book you've read this year?

Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction?

What are your favorite genres?

What's one book you think everyone should read?

What was your favorite book/series when you were growing up?

What's a book you hate passionately (provide reasons if you want)?

What is a trope you love?

What is a trope you hate?

Who is your favorite author?

Do you have an author you will read anything they recommend and/or write?

What's a theme/motif you love to read?

What's the weirdest book you've ever read?

What's the scariest book you've ever read?

Do you prefer long or short books?

Who's your favorite book character?

How many books did you read last year?

Have you met any authors?

What's your favorite book that you own (as in coolest edition/signed/important to you)?

I know people have done these before but I thought it would be fun to write something out! Feel free to use for all your ask game enjoyment! <3

[yuck-pfaugh]

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

No contest: James Frankie Thomas, whose first novel Idlewild knew he was trans before he did — and knew a surprising amount about me, too. GET OUT OF MY WALLS, JAMES FRANKIE THOMAS. Everyone else, please glance across at this post, in which @carys-the-ninth explains why you should read it better than I could.

[percabeth4life]

#12 Did any books disappoint you this year?

Yes! I was so disappointed by- *pauses to stare at the leaning tower of books by my wall* well, I can't remember the title it's something moon goddess or smth like that. But it has such an interesting plot and idea for political intrigue amongst the Gods and I know it's more YA and thus might not be majorly there but-

It ended up basically dumping the political stuff to dive straight into romance! Like it built up this whole idea then it's just gooey eyes and romance 5 minutes after meeting! Like I'm not even exaggerating they went from complete strangers to him rigging a contest for her (literally second time they saw each other).

And it just got more ridiculous - a friend of mine read it and they actually *like* romance (I tend to be picky about romance) and even they agreed it went from 0 to 200 in about ten seconds. Super disappointed, I bought both books in the series together and it feels like a waste cause I couldn't even finish the first one. I still have the page marked if I gather the strength to face the ridiculous romance but :/

[sunscreenstudies]

📚Bookish Asks📚

📕 What book has had the biggest impact on your life, and why?

📖Do you prefer physical books or e-books? Why?

💛How do you organize your bookshelves? By genre, author, color, or in a completely unique way?

🔖What quote from a book resonated with you deeply?

🤎Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you read multiple books simultaneously?

📝What fictional world would you love to visit and explore if given the chance?

💚Which book character do you relate to the most, and why?

📙What’s your favorite genre to read, and do you have any recommendations within that genre?

📑Hardcover, paperback, ebook, or audiobook? Which format do you prefer?

🤍Do you have any reading goals for this year? How are you progressing so far?

💙 What is your favorite book-to-movie adaptation, and why?

📚Do you have a go-to reading spot or do you read everywhere?

❤️Who is your all-time favorite author, and what makes their writing so special to you?

🧾What is the most memorable book ending you’ve ever read? Did it leave you satisfied or wanting more?

💜What book did you initially not enjoy but ended up loving? What changed your perspective?

📗If you could have a conversation with any author, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you ask them?

🖤 Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they?

📔Do you have any bookish rituals or habits that you follow before, during, or after reading a book?

🧡Is there a particular book cover that you find absolutely stunning? Share a picture or describe it!

📘Which classic book or author do you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime, and why?

[adolin]

Book asks: 3, 17, 25

3. What were your top five books of the year? OHH good question. Can't put them in order but

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Souton

Lolita by Nabokov (I'd read this one at a wildly inappropriate age as one does but never in English)

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were? throwback to when I randomly picked at the library sport-thriller pulpy novel DELITTO ALLE OLIMPIADI!!!! and it was not only good but also GAY

25. What reading goals do you have for next year? More short stories!

[megamindsecretlair]

Most disliked popular books??

Cuz I gotta be messy lol

I love being messy on this app 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Most disliked 🤔🤔 idk if these are popular books, but I'll never read a single word from these books/authors because fuck em 🤣 and ik you aint ask for all this but here ya go 💀

1. Uglies by Scott Westerfield. The main character was SO annoying. And inconsistent asf. I can handle annoying, I can't handle inconsistent. Like it completely turned me off of anything he'll ever write.

2. Lightlark by Alex Aster. The book itself was a smash up of every better YA book to come about, which, whatever ppl can write what they want. But the author? Trash. All up and down tiktok, she makes it seem like she got popular because of her writing. When her family is Uber rich and paid to publish the book, and is paying to produce the movie version. It's an entire no from me. Like be honest about it. Plus the main character made a lot of dumbass moves that had nothing to do with the main concept. Im convinced it was AI tbh.

3. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton. Its an old vampire series, though I think she's still writing books 🤔 started in the 90s. I was with the series up until...book 7. The series followed a really cool necromancer who got into urban fantasy shenanigans, she wasn't oversexed. A little self insert (no shame in the game for that) In fact, she had a lot of hangups about sex, much to the annoyance of the guys who were interested in her. And it was very much a mature series dealing with relationships that I appreciated. But im huge on consent. And in book 7, she does a lot of shady shit to like..."force" the main character to completely abandon all her hangups and blames it on a version of mating bullshit and a mix of magic. Im like naw, fuck that. You can't cheat your way to changing a character and she fn lost me. Im never reading that shit again.

4. Twisted Love by Ana Huang. That shit was boooooring. And 200 pages too long. (I think it was like 440 pages altogether). Enemies to lovers is always hit and miss for me chuz its never really enemies. They're juss two ppl who bicker a lot until they have sex. Fine. Whatever. But gawdt this was boring. Maybe I'm juss not into the bad boy being an asshole in order to win someone's affections 🤔 like...he's gotta have something to redeem him. All the twists were obvious asf, the sex wasn't even that great. Turned me off the author completely.

5. Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas. See number 4 lol. 200 pages too long, the main characters had 0 chemistry. The main character served entirely no purpose. And there was shit that came up at the end that was never introduced and yet became a major plot point. Idk how they can turn enemies to lovers and fake dating into a terrible time, but they did 😪 never reading anything from that author again 💀

I could go on, fr. I'm picky dammit 🤣🤣🤣

[ejunkiet]

Book asks: 9, 11, and 14

THANK YOU 😚😚

9. New genres?

Dark romance 😂🙈 So I loved Sweet by Howl Avery, which I managed to snag in an ebook deal. A serial killer falls for his stalker. I love how the author handles the topics, and this book is a delicious mess, highly recommend it, just watch the trigger warnings! Howl is an indie author, and I love their writing style: they focus on unusual narratives, and I've picked up several of their books!

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

For this year, it was Wolfsong by TJ Klune. Holy sheet, this series is absolutely gorgeous. This book took me on a JOURNEY. I've got the second half of the quartet to go, because I needed a break after the first two books, but it got me writing for it (Gordon/Mark!!) which is the highest compliment I can give a book!!

14. Any books you want to finish before the year is over?

YES 😂 I've been carrying around a physical copy of Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays since it was released, and have just been devouring books on my kindle instead, ahahaha! I've packed it!!!

[terapsina]

#2 for the book worm ask game!

(ask game)

2. Favorite fantasy book(s).

(Eeeeexcellent, I do love fantasy books. Though how I'm gonna narrow it to only a few I've got no idea. Okay. I'm going to remove the very obvious choices like Lord of the Rings (though it is one of my faves)).

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Monstrous Regiment. I love the entire Discworld series (especially The Witches) but I've also got a huge soft spot in my heart for Terry Pratchett's take on 'a girl dresses like a boy to go to war' (and thinks of everything except some spare socks in- erm... the right place). Along with Polly, the squad consists of a vampire, a troll, an Igor, a religious fanatic and two very, very close "friends" (and yes, the official summary put the friends in quotes too). And everyone has their own secret.

I love basically everything about this book and I can't tell you guys any of it because it would spoil all the fun.

The Goblin Emperor. This one's a story filled with light. Maia the half goblin son of the elven Emperor was never supposed to take the throne (or to ever even be at court. because racism). And then everyone ahead of him dies in a single "accident" and suddenly he's the new Emperor. Maia is a good person, and a kind one, and despite everything that gets thrown at him he keeps hold of that understanding of right and wrong and refuses to bend.

(I have to mention that the language of the writing is kinda hard to get into in the beginning, and the characters's have very complicated and long names, but once you get into it it really did enhance the story for me).

Good Omens. An Angel and a Demon try to stop the apocalypse and instead lose the Antichrist. I've loved that book for like a decade now and if I don't put it on a list of my faves that list would be a lie.

The King of Attolia. Third in The Queen's Thief series and my favorite one out of all of them. I've always enjoyed Outsider POV in fics. And here is a book that just... proves why. We've got Eugenides and Irene, the Thief and the Queen, and we know them from the two previous books. And adore them. But the story isn't from their POV, it's from the POV of Costis, a Queen's guard who's suddenly gotten assigned to the King. The useless, weak, undeserving king that as far as Costis is concerned doesn't deserve to even kiss the Queen's boots. And it's hilarious to read the story from the eyes of someone who knows so much less than us. And so satisfying, as he begins to understand.

(I recommend the whole series and am personally glad to have read them in the published order but Megan Whalen Turner has stated that she wrote them in a way that allows you to jump in at any point you want).

The Raven Tower. The story is from the viewpoint of a sentient, omniscient rock whose name is Strength and Patience of the Hill and it is the GREATEST THING EVER. The gods are real and must be very careful with their words, because if they speak a lie the reality will alter to make that lie the truth but if the lie is bigger than the power of the god... well. Inspired by Hamlet.

(the book also has a trans man as the main character; the other main character? The sentient rock is the narrator but the largest part of the story focuses on Eolo).

A Natural History of Dragons. The first book from The Memoirs of Lady Trent (and honestly it would probably be more honest to say that every single book from this series fits the category of fave but I'm putting up the first here because this isn't a series where you should skip ahead). The book focuses on the life of Isabella as narrated by her older self. This is the story how a Scirland lady bucked all tradition and became a world renowned expert on the Natural History of Dragons.

(this series has a piece of my heart and always will).

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(and finally, here's some more of my favorite fantasy books that I also adore and would totally ramble about but I got tired of typing).

[beartrice-inn-unnir]

Book ask #4

4. What book/series/author do you think has most heavily informed who you are today?

I’ve had a few different authors whose works really sunk in my heart and soul and moral code. However, by far my most explicit guide (like quoting it in my head when dealing with something) has been Lois McMaster Bujold.

I first read her Vorkosigan saga starting when I was fifteen and just kept learning from Miles’ mistakes and Cordelia’s aphorisms and Ekaterin's realizations. It all really stuck with me - I kept rereading a lot of the books through college. But it's been a bit since I reread any of the early series books, I should do that again.

I've mostly been reading her World of Five Gods books for the past few years. Those are also spectacular, but I'm not sure if I've reached the same level of incorporating the text into my psyche that I did with the Vorkosigan books. I still think about how to convince someone to do something in terms of "raising the pressure vs lowering the wall" (Miles convincing Nikki to come out of the bathroom and go to school in Komarr). Raising the pressure on someone who already feels pressured rarely helps. Offering something that makes taking action a little easier can be much more helpful.

So cheers to Lois McMaster Bujold and the Vorkosigan Saga. Those books rewired my brain at exactly the right time and I'm still grateful.

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

I’m at chapter 37, excuse me but did he just lick her neck? Is my copy of this book correct? Am I reading this right? IS THE WORD LICK REALLY THERE?!

yes he did in fact lick her 😭 their scenes together are so intimate without being explicit at the same time and it's so good

[amanitaphalloides]

did you read anything you absolutely HATED this year? 😁

hi thank you :) ok longtime followers of this blog may know I have a kind of chronic stephen king habit that sometimes brings me shameless unfettered joy and sometimes feels like I am hitting myself on the head with a baseball bat. this year I had a notably epic low by reading roadwork, which is about a guy whose house is going to be demolished to build a highway and he goes crazy and does explosions. it really sucks ass. It makes you go “I wish I was reading the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy which also starts this way but then has another idea.” but the bright side of this experience is that this book was so bad I sternly said to myself girl we cannot go on like this. and did not allow myself to read any other books that I suspected from the jump were going to suck. which tbh is kind of hard for me as a lover of pulp, sleaze, schlock, etc. but the result was that this was the ONLY book I truly 100% hated all year. yay!!!