Encyclopedia_of_Erin
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If there’s one non fiction book you read this year, it should be this one.
There are too many mentally unwell men with too much money playing around with our freedom and democracy and it cannot be ignored any longer. It is important to understand their world view, and goals for global dominion. We must educate ourselves and reject it.
The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow
Ok but am I the only one reading Owen’s internal dialogue like the narrator from Arrested Development? 🤣
“You drown, the first time. But the next one will be easier.” The next one had not been easier.
Encyclopedia_of_Erin commented...
5 star criteria for me:
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Strong writing that makes sense for the genre and story. Not superfluous to be ✨fancy✨ and also not overly simple and using modern slang in high fantasy for example.
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Makes me think about SOMETHING. This is a wide criteria but I need the author to trust I can put 2 and 2 together and not explain every feeling and emotion to me like I’m a 5 year old.
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Piggy backing off 2, it needs to SHOW NOT TELL
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Sticks with me after finishing, or I feel so sick and upset that the book is nearing the end cause I don’t want it to be over.
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Emotionally provoking. Did I laugh? Cry? Fall in love? Cringe? Am I planning my re-read already? If yes we’re probably in 5 star territory
I’m no stranger to star ratings. I have a Letterboxd account and I have two different reading log apps plus my reading journals, yet sometimes I think I am being too generous in my ratings. Some films I have given five star ratings to just because Lewis Pullman is in them and sometimes I’ve given a five star rating to a book just because it used the most stunning word or mentioned Mary Shelley in a chapter. Yet other times I can be so strict with my ratings and I was wondering how everyone else chooses how many stars something should get?
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