book-reviews

As a sort of personal log of opinion and content, I try to write reviews for all the book-like things in my leisure reading, and keep a record of everything I've read. This began as part of a sort of group 'competition' on a writing hobbyist site [1].

Excluding smaller items of web fiction, along with academic papers and a swathe of non-fiction articles from both print and electronic sources, all of which I deemed too much hassle to try and record, I have a complete record of things I've read since the start of 2012, though completion dates are sometimes more approximate than exact. Genre assignments are vague and speculative. Items read since the start of 2013 should all have short reviews, barring more recent items I haven't gotten around to writing about yet.

I use a five-star rating system which is based on three stars being a neutral rating. Things I consider a 'good read' for any of various, perhaps inarticulable, reasons will get bumped up to four stars. Anything which really impresses me will get five stars. Two stars means I found the book generally disappointing or sub-par in some way. One star means it was really terrible. I try to trade off various bad and good aspects of books while remaining true to my overall impression of their quality.