Stars aren't the issue, there are people reviewing books they haven't read. Books that are not even out yet with multiple 5 star reviews. Goodreads reviews and ratings are fundamentally broken. I choose not to contribute to it. The only thing you could do is verified reviews but since Amazon bought Goodreads that means people would be locked into the Amazon ecosystem and that still doesn't stop the bogus reviews and ratings. It just means they bought the book through Amazon.

Unfortunately, we're onto the 4th generation of kids that have gone through a post Thatcher education system. This was her end goal.

I really wish they had a 1/2 star option too. I feel like, for me, there is too much variation between 3-4 and 4-5 stars.

Yes I've always read like you. Every word, every sound, every motion my brain can muster.

I love reading, but it can take me weeks and months on a book or two.

My wife apparently just kind of "understands" the words as her eyes follow the page and she's insanely fast.

I am an avid reader. My sister, not so much. She had kids before me. So, I started giving all my nieces and nephews a book as well as a toy for Christmas each year to ensure they had books. I needn’t have worried. Anyway, when everyone started getting older it got harder, of course. Two years ago, I considered stopping the tradition (kids sophomore in high school through 3rd grade). Before announcing it, the sophomore told me what she really wanted for Christmas was for me to preorder this book for her. A different niece told me how much she loved that I gave them books. So, yeah, I still get them books.

It’s very rare for me to give less than a five, because I love stories. So it goes like this:

5- Yeah! Excellent, excellent, very good, well done, solid story. 2-4- all right, it’s a book, but I’m wrestling with something. 1- ….I don’t like you.

Do you know who it is? It did not say in the article or any of the others I read online.

You’re right, it’s not, it’s written as a tragedy, these two people cost themselves their lives due to impulsiveness and thoughtlessness, while destroying a lot of other people in the process. And it’s clearly outlined in the text but I think too many people, especially teens who haven’t been exposed to the text, just get the summary, two young lovers whose families won’t let them be together die for their love.

5 Stars: I loved it AND it was well written, I would recommend the book and will look into more of the author’s work. A lot of re-read value.

4 Stars: I enjoyed it, fairly well written with only a few flaws to smack it down from 5 stars. I would still recommend the book, but it’s a 50/50 shot if I’ll re-read or look more into the author.

3 Stars: It’s not bad, but it’s not good. Several things put me off or there was one big glaring issue. 50/50 shot if I recommend it and I won’t look more into the author without a lot of persuading. Will only reread if part of a better series.

2 Stars: It’s not the worst thing in the world, but I wouldn’t recommend it or would discourage people from reading it.

1 Star: Either a DNF or a book I hated with a passion. Typically means I finished the book angry, but for the wrong reasons. Typically if I feel like my time has been wasted I’ll rate a book 1 star.

Well, in the States you guys call them Y’all Quaeda or the Texas Taliban.

Up here in Canada, we just call them the Timbit Taliban.

Nailed it.

i use storygraph and the rating is 0-5 and is quite specific as you can add 25 / .5 / .75 to your rating so i do

5 stars - very rare for me to give basically means i think it’s extremely well written with no flaws (a masterpiece) 4 stars - not without flaws but still amazing (some of my favourite books are even 4 stars because an imperfect book can often still hold a huge place in your heart) then i use the more specific ones for 3 star ratings so 3.25 stars for an average book and 3.75 for one which was great but not enough for a full 4 because it didn’t excite me enough to rank higher (basically not a new personal favourite) and 2 stars for books i liked the plot of but hated the execution (books that are inconsistent with the quality of writing can also fall into this category) 1 star is rare, usually reserved for modern books which i just found deeply offensive, that can’t be explained away by the time they were written in i don’t really give 0 star ratings because i got so used to using 1-5 on goodreads before i switched

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The first book was fantastic, the second and third book weren't even worth finishing imo.

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It went from an action packed adventure/survival story with a lot of good drama in book 1 to a political thriller for books 2 and 3.

I use this type of rating, and I write a review as well, since I read others reviews to see what they liked or disliked about a book.

So I use storygraph so I get the quarter stars as well but for me it goes

1: why does this book exist?

2: very bad book, not enjoyable nor well-written

3: average, ok, forgettable/unmemorable

4: pretty good, had some flaws

5: absolutely perfect in every way, reread for sure, 10/10 will recommend every chance I get

5 stars- one of the best books I've ever read/one of my favorites of all-time.

4 stars- very enjoyable; would probably read again

3 stars- decent enough one-time read

2 stars- didn't hate it but don't like it either

1 star- avoid at all costs

I thought the Jobs' were always open about how they didn't allow their kids to use smartphones or tablets until they were teenagers.

Weird, it doesn't work with Firefox's reader mode. The two always seemed identical to me but I guess Safari's strips out more extra code

Its peer pressure. Monkey see, monkey do, and MOST children do not read novels or nonfiction text unless assigned homework. Also, US adults read less books these days toos. Kids grow up seeing their peers and their adult role models NOT reading and develop similar habits.

Now that being said...I would not be surprised if youth today actually read more words per day than previous generations ..We are staring at our screens all day and the internet needs to be read in many places still.

Aside from the most insane reason to ever protest a book.

The school board should have reviewed the book first hand. it’s a book for adults. If they have an adult section for 18+ students great. The book even mentions hey this stuff is 18+. Like ohhh telling kids how to download Grindr on page 155. It also says hey you need to be +18 an adult. But I mean kids bring cards against humanity to the lunch room anyway.

It starts off okay, but the writing goes downhill fast.

By the third novel, we see Katniss replaying entire scenes in her head with emotional commentary. Scenes we have already read. That's filler, that's just empty pages.

Parts of the series were interesting if you're comfortable with the fact that everything in the story is borrowed from a different, better story. Overall I'd give the trilogy a 6/10.

We still have countries where child brides are a common occurrence. I wish the innocence children was actually sacred.

But what's interesting is that, as I said, it's rare for me to give 2 stars to a book. That is because I've noticed that often enough, if I don't enjoy a book but can imagine other people enjoying it, I'm likely to up the rating to 3 stars out of kindness, even if, objectively, it would be more of a 2 star for me. If it's not something I passionately hate, I often feel like rating something 2 stars is too mean. On the other hand, if I hate a book, then it's a one star (and usually, if I completely hate a book, it is because it's problematic in some way). That means that I rate very few books 2 stars.

Generally:

5 stars - Loved it. Will definitely re-read at some point, and will probably recommend it to anyone and everyone. (not rated many books this highly)

4 stars - Enjoyed it, will likely re-read at some point. Will recommend to people if it seems their thing. (My most used rating, as these days I pre-filter books before I read 'em because I know what I like!)

3 stars - Was readable, but was lacking something, there were large sections which were un-enjoyable, or it was just not what I was hoping for/not the quality I expected. Not getting re-read unless I have to for some reason. Also for books that were "not my thing".

2 stars - Readable, but just not good. Poorly written/formatted/edited, or just really not for me.

1 stars - Bad. Either almost unreadable, or the dreaded DNF. For books that I will not only not recommend, but will tell people to actively avoid (such as deliberately misleading or offensive books).