HOW TO FIND INSPIRATION
One of my top students at El Camino asked me how to find inspiration about
reading and writing with regard to an uninteresting novel.  I consider that
an excellent question. Here is my response to him:

When you read in a vacuum, sometimes the topic will seem uninteresting
because you have no way of connecting.  When that happens, take the time to
learn more about the author and the era.  Writers are often quite interesting
people.  Learn about an author's life and what he/she writes about will be
more interesting because you will have a sense of the personal message.

I find it interesting to know that Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, died
during one of the plagues that destroyed so many lives during that era.
Shakespeare, devasted to be sure, named his character Hamlet after his son.

Queen Elizabeth so loved one of Shakespeare's characters that she asked him
to write a play specifically about him.  Do you know which play that is?
Wouldn't it be fun to have the power to assign a topic to a writer or film
maker?

Learn about the era and the author and your reading will be more interesting
to you as you discover ways to connect outside information to the current
reading experience.  

Try it.