tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post3599190202349632694..comments2024-03-26T08:06:19.661-04:00Comments on The Road Less Travelled: Annoying things: The Goodreads edition loribethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09272814565916935113noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-82512228456385798122019-09-04T19:59:08.824-04:002019-09-04T19:59:08.824-04:00Interesting. I didn’t explain how/why I rate books...Interesting. I didn’t explain how/why I rate books in my post. I mostly follow the Goodreads explanation, with a bit of my own spin/interpretation. ;) <br /><br />Five stars means the book knocked my socks off in some way — the writing was brilliant, or I learned a whole lot from it, or it left me thinking long after I finished it. (Etc.)<br /><br />Four stars (my most common rating) means I really, really liked it — but not quite enough to give it the top rating.<br /><br />Three stars means I enjoyed the book. Maybe it didn’t knock my socks off — I may not have found it hugely challenging or original, or perhaps I had a reservation or two about something in the story/content — but on balance, I still enjoyed it or got something out of it.<br /><br />I’ve only given two stars to three books to date (including one of my more recent reads). These were generally books that had some interesting points, but that I found tough reading, or disappointing in some way. I’ve never given one star. The only “book” I’ve read & recorded but not starred was the Mueller Report. ;) I didn’t view that as a standard book… but at 400-odd pages, I was determined to get credit for reading it, lol.<br /><br />One thing I wish is that you could assign half-stars. That would sure help. I will often say in my review if I would have assigned a half star, and then rounded my rating up or down. loribethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272814565916935113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-50459050595527789462019-08-27T20:49:58.694-04:002019-08-27T20:49:58.694-04:00I really like Goodreads. Yes, there are some frust...I really like Goodreads. Yes, there are some frustrations with the phone app rather than my laptop app, but I usually manage to figure things out. I thought we could send messages to the people we're connected to. I'll have to check it out.<br /><br />I don't write reviews very often - it's too much like English homework, which I never enjoyed - but sometimes want to explain a particular rating, or just feel like making a few comments, as our old bookclub still use each others feeds to help choose books. And I like being able to refer back to see whether I've read a particular author or book, and also I use it when I'm asked for recommendations. It's easy to go in to sort for four and five star reads, and see my favourite books.<br /><br />I keep an Abandoned list - of books that I tried, but could never finish. I've decided that if I've tried to read something for weeks and it has never grabbed me, that I deserve to have that effort recognised, and I consider it "Read" and put it on that list too.Life is too short to read a bad book.<br /><br />I maintain a To-Read list on Goodreads, and love being able to add things to that. I match it up with my "wishlist" on my library app. Both lists have more books than I've probably read in my entire life. Sigh. Life is indeed too short!Malihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03928262526502319303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-13002309209201422602019-08-27T19:27:50.748-04:002019-08-27T19:27:50.748-04:00I track on paper (35 read this year!), but I somet...I track on paper (35 read this year!), but I sometimes add stuff on GoodReads. I use it to track my TBR list, but that's also in several places. Mostly I go on to find new books and sometimes will do a sweep of adding books. I will say that I only review/star books I enjoy. If I can't give it 4 or 5, I mark it as read and I don't star it. That happened recently. I hated the book, but I felt like maybe it was me and not a comment on the book itself. So I quietly marked it as read and moved on.<br /><br />One thing I wish you could do -- ask book-related questions in your feed. I know they have the forums, but sometimes I want to ask questions to the people I'm connected to. I guess they worry people wouldn't stay on topic if they allowed it.Lollipop Goldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01020874415819057995noreply@blogger.com