I get a lot of comments (and some shocked looks or incredulous questions) when people hear how many books I read, especially as a stay-at-home-mom of two little kids. How many books a year? That’s crazy! How do you have time to read so much? Sometimes they’re asking rhetorically, but often, people really want to […]
In a previous post, I wrote about what each rating (out of five stars) means for me. Five stars indicate an amazing book… not just a book that I liked, but one that I loved. One star books are books I hated. In all likelihood, I didn’t even finish a book that was that bad. […]
Book ratings seem pretty straightforward. Assign a number of stars to a book to indicate how much you liked it. Nothing very complicated there. But I’ve discovered that everybody means something different by those stars. Some people will only give five stars to a very select few books–the true, timeless classics, or the books that […]