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Book Confessions That Will Have You Side-Eyeing Me

This fun post was originally created by Nick over at  Nick & Nereyda's Infinite Booklist Their blog is one of the originals that I have been following forever. (Both separately until they decided to co-blog as well.) So when I saw Nick do this I loved the idea! I read the last page (or chapter)… Continue reading Book Confessions That Will Have You Side-Eyeing Me

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{Aside} Rating On Goodreads Before You’ve Read It.

Bentley has somehow put into words my exact feelings of the book community lately. Everyone could do with reading this.

Book ★ Bastion

Fair Warning: Unpopular Opinions Incoming!

I’ve been debating writing this post for quite some time now. I’ve titled it “Unpopular Opinions” for a reason. I’m fully expecting this to spark a bit of discussion and yes, disagreements, but given that we’re all civilized people with strong opinions that are all worthy of merit, I felt more and more compelled to share my thoughts.

I wanted to talk today about the state of Goodreads; in particular a disturbing trend I’ve been witnessing of people maliciously rating books before they’ve actually read them.

For the record, I also take issue with people rating upcoming books that they’re looking forward to 5 stars before the book has even been published, but that’s really not what I want to focus on here. Yes, that equally skews the ratings of any book, but I think it’s more pressing that we talk about the…

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