Bookish Musings: AI Book Covers

Bookish Musings: AI Book Covers

I'm seeing more and more book covers with AI art lately, and it saddens me. And I don't know how to fix the problem. I'm mostly seeing it in indie and self-published books, presumably because those have smaller budgets. (If big publishers are doing this, they really have no excuse.) And I know writing books is hard work and can be really expensive, especially for small presses and self-pub...
 
Bookish Tag Post: May Flowers Book Tag [Original]

Bookish Tag Post: May Flowers Book Tag [Original]

I was looking for a book tag to do, and I think I saw one called "April Showers," but it's not April anymore, so I thought, what about "May Flowers"? Which didn't exist, as far as I could tell, so I made my own. Does this even count as a book tag? I don't know. I'm just gonna find five books I've read with floral covers and then talk about them. Because I'm tired, and it seems easy enough, but...
 
Cover Love: Book Covers with Fall Vibes

Cover Love: Book Covers with Fall Vibes

Ok, fine, to be honest, I mostly just found books with sorta orange color palettes. That counts as fall vibes, right? At least one of these has leaves on it, so that's something 😅 Anyway, most of these probably aren't fall-themed books (I've read most of them, I just don't remember what season they're set in), but they still have pretty...
 
Cover Love: Book Covers featuring Pomegranates

Cover Love: Book Covers featuring Pomegranates

I have had this post in my drafts for SO LONG because it is very hard to find book covers with pomegranates on them. And of course I wanted them to be sci-fi/fantasy, since that's what my blog is about. And I had to try and make sure it wasn't actually figs I was seeing (easy to tell apart in real life, not always so easy in little illustrations). And I wanted them to actually be pretty. (I...
 
Cover Love: Book Covers featuring Robots

Cover Love: Book Covers featuring Robots

I think I've had robots on the brain lately because of some games I've been playing, and then I came across a cool book cover with a robot, and I needed to make a blog post for Sunday, so here we are. Robuts! And I made sure to find ones that are mostly humanoid but still robot-y, no androids in human skin here....
 
Cover Love: Romantic Book Covers

Cover Love: Romantic Book Covers

I sort of wanted to do something for Valentine's Day (not that I'm celebrating, but I've been blogging for over seven years, I need to get ideas from somewhere), so this is what I decided on! Because book covers are fun. I have to be honest, I was a little bit lazy and mostly looked through covers I already had on my blog from previous posts. But not everyone has seen all those...
 
Cover Love: Black, White, & Purple Book Covers

Cover Love: Black, White, & Purple Book Covers

When I was in high school, I was once on the phone with a friend, and he was trying to guess the color of my shirt. Purple used to be my least favorite color (I really don't know why, I've now realized the error of my ways and appreciate it for the beautiful color it is), so when he guessed it, I said, "Eww, I hate purple." He kept guessing and guessing, venturing into more specific and unusual...
 
Cover Characteristics: Best Book Covers from Books I Read in 2021

Cover Characteristics: Best Book Covers from Books I Read in 2021

I love pretty book covers! They can definitely entice me to read a book I probably wouldn't have been quite interested enough in otherwise. Or make me more excited for a book I already wanted to read. Or make me want a print copy, just so I can look at it whenever I want. So, as I think I've said before, this is a post I really look forward to each year. I included some runners-up, but I...
 
Bookish Tag Post: Christmas Book Covers Tag [Original]

Bookish Tag Post: Christmas Book Covers Tag [Original]

I wanted to do something Christmassy and simple and fun today since Christmas is less than a week away. A few years back, I did a Halloween book covers tag, so I thought I'd do one for this holiday too. My tags are chill, so if you want to join, the only rule is to give me credit by linking back to this post! Some of the topics are difficult, so if you want to skip them or replace them or do your...