tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879045754890624537.post8099432582392356680..comments2024-03-07T16:34:53.226+00:00Comments on Click's Clan: How I rank my booksClickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09478761820331036869noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879045754890624537.post-6104326151462567662015-09-06T11:50:00.974+01:002015-09-06T11:50:00.974+01:00I know what you mean about people having different...I know what you mean about people having different ways of defining stars. And sometimes I find it really hard to pick how many stars I should give a book. That's why I quite often use half stars, which Goodreads doesn't let me select, because I genuinely can't decide whether it should be three or four, it's both and neither.<br /><br />Ever since I started keeping a book journal I've made sure that I finish <i>everything</i> I start which means I probably have a lot more one and two star books than I'd have otherwise.Clickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09478761820331036869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879045754890624537.post-29982425792128648812015-09-06T11:32:04.045+01:002015-09-06T11:32:04.045+01:00Yeah, one person's three stars can mean someth...Yeah, one person's three stars can mean something totally different to another person's three stars. In fact, sometimes it can depend on when I'm reading it, like there was a book I read when I was going through a rough time so I kept picking it up and putting it down. I gave it three stars because my heart wasn't in it at the time, but on a revisit it'd probably rank higher. So it's not just subjective between different people, but with the same person at different times.Clickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09478761820331036869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879045754890624537.post-81022045115346200872015-08-25T00:35:33.260+01:002015-08-25T00:35:33.260+01:00I think I use pretty much the same scale as you d...I think I use pretty much the same scale as you do. Two stars I give to books that I think have good merits and are well written, I just don't like. Or books which fall really flat. I have tp still see something in them.<br /><br />One stars i reserve for books that I would sooner see shredded then in books. They make me anmoyed just seeing them in bookshops. <br /><br />I don't really read a lot of one or two star books though, because I tend to put them down before getting to such a point.<br /><br />Three stars I give to books that I enjoyed enough to finish, but that didn't satisfy me. <br /><br />I find star ratings quite difficukt and try not to take them to seriously. The problem with them is that so many people have different ways of defining stars. So when looking at places like Goodreads, you can't alwaya makw judgements based on them.Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00378715984699756859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879045754890624537.post-56754843432782438722015-08-24T23:15:01.852+01:002015-08-24T23:15:01.852+01:00Rating books is a subjective process. Opinions var...Rating books is a subjective process. Opinions vary. Tastes vary. You system is similar to mine--5 stars I love, 4 stars I like, 3 stars is kinda meh, etc.Liz A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16531953467834426316noreply@blogger.com