MasquerainDreamer25
Manga & Comic obsessed librarian reading Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, Horror, and more!
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Anyone else love hyper-specific reading challenges at libraries?
Summer reading and Winter reading challenges are pretty typical and broad at libraries and that's always fun, BUT right now I also really love challenges that have specific reading lists or prompts.
My favs right now are: El Paso Public Library's Reading in the 915 Dallas Public Library's 250 Years of Us Georgia Public Library's Georgia Reads for America 250
A lot of times libraries have their lists available to look at online without cards/accounts, so nothing gets skewed in terms of their stats or taxes paid for resources! Some are also shared on social channels 🙂
These have added a ton of books to my TBR for this year and previous years.
What are your fav reading challenges? Do you prefer free reading or guided prompts?
i'm sure something to this effect has been posted here before but i thought i'd ask anyway! how does your star rating system work? i haven't left star ratings in a while because i can never stay consistent with them, but i think if i could just figure out a concrete system, i might have more success with them.
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MasquerainDreamer25 commented...
My system is very personal and based entirely on how I left the book feeling.
5 stars: I love the book, I need a copy, I'll probably reread it someday. 4 stars: I really really liked the book. A copy would be neat, but I'm not rushing to add it to my shelf. I'm definitely going to recommend it to other readers though. 3 stars: Good book. Didn't love it, but it's really solid. If it had a specific purpose or vision in mind, it met its goal. Just not a fav or one that I feel is a MUST read. 2 stars: Could've been better. Had potential but for some reason it just let me down or there was something I couldn't get passed. I wanted to like it, but just couldn't. 1 star: The hell did I read and why did I read it? Nope. Nope, nope, nope. Just nope.
Half stars are usually for when I'm leaning towards the higher number but just can't bring myself to make it that. So like, a 4.5 I wanted to adore but one component pry held me back from wanting to scream from the rooftops about it. A 2.5 is a book that almost redeemed itself, but just didn't do enough to get me around to a full 3.
Most books I read will be a 3 or a 4 star. A few get 5 stars and lower than 3 is rare, but possible.