I have never intentionally read a book with the knowledge that it was problematic and don't see myself doing that in the future. I don't read books I think I won't enjoy.

The original hunger games book was great. The sloppy attempt of turning it into the next Harry Potter saga as fast as possible not so much. The sequels weren't that good IMO, especially the last one. It's inferior world building all to make a quick buck.

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Most things get 3 star. Adjust from there.

This is my town. It’s just crazy the amount of culture war crap here. People need to get out of town and see people who might not be be cis het and white.

I recently downgraded two books to one star because I tried to recall something I liked about them and nothing came to mind

Out of interest with regards to the one star rating, would you ever read books knowing in advance they were heavily problematic, and if so what effect would this have on your rating of the book?

I can't remember a thing about the book except, like you, I got really really into it and couldn't put it down.

How odd? I dunno being old is odd. I haven't watched the trailers for the show yet, I'm hoping to just be as surprised as I can be.

I'm sure it'll come back to me eventually. Something about silos they lived in.. ah damn here the memories come...

Same!

To be fair, I don't think Romeo and Juliet was really written as an ideal relationship guide to follow.

I don't rate books on Goodreads. I feel like ratings can be so subjective that I don't want to put mine out without context. And I can't be bothered to write a review. I just have my personal thoughts on wether I liked, loved or disliked a book.

It’s interesting that you review your ratings after a period of time- how many ratings stay the same after a few months?

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What would you do instead of star reviews?

Didn't the Brooklyn Public Library make their whole digital catalog available to all people in USA? Or at least all kids in USA?

Well the worst is when they disagree and start arguing.

I give purley subjective ratings. There are usually thousands of ratings for a novel on Goodreads, so I don’t see the point of being dishonest with my own feelings toward a book

5 stars is only for books that are my favorites, things that had enough of an impact I'm still recommending it months later. I rarely use it

4 stars, kept me engaged the whole time, solid writing

3 stars is for a middle of the road book, it was fine.

2 stars is for a book I didn't like. Usually has grammatical issues or repetitive language, or for fiction, characters who don't seem distinct from one another.

1 star is a book I hated, or had serious issues with grammar, or blatant sexism, racism, or homophobia. Rarely use it.

I also add or remove stars for some things. Like if it wasn't my type of book but seems valuable for others to read it, like it gives an important perspective that I otherwise wouldn't be exposed to, I add a star. I recently gave one star for animal abuse. Like, the writing was good, but the asshole abuses animals and still gets to be a NYTimes bestseller? One star for you.

The fact that everyone has a different way of rating is argument enough not to give a star rating or to pay attention to them. If you gave 5 stars each to Beloved or TKaM and a solid piece of genre fiction, for example, how is that helpful, since so much of good genre is still ephemeral and won't stand the test of time? I also find genres to be self selecting. So someone into Manga will give 5 stars to many things Manga, which isn't really helpful to someone who generally reads another genre and wants to try the best of Manga.

I stopped rating my books at all on Goodreads. The rating system is broken. It's just a way for me to keep track of what I've read and to find more books I'd like to read.

People take it superficially because it was written for a younger audience — and because the movies fell into the same trap that the Capitol does in the movies (focusing on the love interest storyline).

It’s actually an incredibly thought out trilogy and an amazing book about tyranny. I wrote one of my SAT essays about THG and I still remember it.

If you have an iPhone, click the Aa (reader mode) at the top of safari. That will give you the article in full on most sites. Not all, but it works for The Atlantic.

I usually click reader mode in general because it’s cleaner

No, you’ve got it all wrong. They want to protect the children so badly that they will threaten to blow them all up to keep them safe from the dangerous ideas of checks notes existing!

With their reading choices now being restricted to pretty either the Bible or the Gun Lover's Almanac, I can kind of see how they're falling out of love with it.

But according to the rightwingers, kids don't have brains anyway and therefore don't need to use them, or comprehend how the real world works.

More child abuse is being committed in the name of book banning than by all the Catholic priests combined.

To clarify and expanding on other responses you got, same as a recovering alcoholic or drug addict, with the difference that I did not choose to be a catholic, it was just the culture I was born ( Spain ) there are wounds that are inflicted as a child, indoctrination, with feelings of guilt and shame for things that are out of one control.

Like your gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race.

The wounds eventually heal but the scars, I will carry to my grave as a reminder that when some people say " think of the children " or " is a slippery slope " they don't mean what you think and they don't have your best interest in mind, just follow the money and you will see what I mean.

We as a society have to make the most urgent effort to get ANY flavor of organized religion as far away from children and schools as possible, and I am not only referring to any of the offshoots of the abrahamic death cult, whether is christianity, muslim or jewish. They pray on ignorance ( hence their insistence of controlling the Education system ) banning books or worse burning them and the people who wrote them as well.

So yes recovering catholic is a very appropriate description for many of us that survived.