Now I hope they do hook up just because of this sensitive comment

I track my reading activity for 2 reasons.

1. I love statistics and numbers

2. It motivates me to read more. I love seeing my numbers go up and I hate downward trends so if I see one starting I read more.

I use Story graph it gives you some awesome graphs and it's easy to use. And I also use timejot and habits apps on Android.

I read A child called It in highschool that really fucked me up.

This is good to know.

Exactly

Makes a lot of sense. I was asking on a personal level because bi personally don't look at reviews and ratings. I like to only read recommendations and go in not books blindly (aside from authors I already enjoy). I feel like if I read 5 books .5 will make a huge difference if they were all meh but some were better than others so you're meh.5

Just my opinion on my own rating.

Yeah at the end of the day it's your own preference I was just wondering why it was the norm.

Unless people use .25 in a 5 point rating it is isn't it?

What about 7.5 do people use 3.25? Genuinely curious.

More responsibilities? How many more can I get? Can't I read for more than just pleasure?

I feel you. I'm the opposite half the enjoyment for me when I read a book is the rating I'll give it, how long it took me to read, how many pages I read per day etc..

Understood that reference gif

That makes a lot a sense as I mentioned on another comments I guess for me personally I just think we lose our on more halfs since I don't see people using 3.25 = 7.5 so instead of having 20 units of measurement we only get half.

I guess I haven't seen too many people use 3.25 as an example and this losing let's say 7.5. Not saying it doesn't happen just haven't seen it myself.

I keep seeing "she's not a good writer" but also see the argument "read what you like" and "read to escape or for entertainment". People could be right she might be the worst writer there is but here's the thing, for me the one book I did read by her, Verity is entertaining as hell and I tore through the book fast than other well written books by authors that are considered great even if just in their genre. So which is it? She is a bad writer so you shouldn't like her? She's on tik tok a lot so for that you shouldn't like her? She's getting more people to read so you shouldn't like her? That last one is laughable.

So what if she's not a great writer. Some literary classics are damn near impossible to read or understand for some of us that are frankly just reading for fun. This genuinely just feels like gatekeeping and it makes it harder to have conversations with people about books specially online. I recently made a post about Very by Colleen Hoover that I thought would engage people in conversation and thankfully it did but it immediately got down voted and had a few comments that had nothing to do with the book but with the author. It's sad.

I didn't but my gf just did after she told me what happened I rather disregard them just makes everything more complicated ha

All valid points. If you start dissecting the book you see a lot of inconsistencies but I'm trying to enjoy books more and dissect them less. I think the there's too many conflicting things that happen that if I overthink it I'd come to the conclusion that Verity is a murdering psycho but so is Jeremy.

This part I wheheartedly agree with you. I despised the exposition and I guess it would also help cement the fact that the letter isn't the truth because she's giving exposition to whoever finds it but I genuinely just think Colleen couldn't think of a clever was to address it.

>— from a “literary” perspective, they way Verity delivered all that exposition in her letter, much of it already known to her husband the intended recipient, was just awful writing, not to mention how convenient it was that the letter was found at the perfect time for the conclusion

I didn't know Colleen had said that. Maybe I have to live with it a bit longer but I lean more towards believing the letter and even that Jeremy is a little off, not a serial killer as others suggest but he's definitely off.

I enjoyed this book, maybe I just have bad taste.