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Bookmarks:  For Everyone Who Hasn't Read Everything

Bookmarks is a magazine that comes out once every two months.  It always causes me to order at least one new book.  Recently, it was said that I'm tough when it comes to my five stars on Goodreads.  As I have mentioned before I think my scores would be kinder if I could do the 1/2 star.  Today I noticed that I typically give one star lower than the average.  When I looked at Bookmarks  tonight, I realized my grading fits their scale.

5   Classic          A timeless book to be read by all.
4   Excellent      One of the best of its genre
3   Good             Enjoyable, particularly for fans of the genre
2   Fair               Some problems, approach with caution
1   Poor              Not worth your time

Yep, I think it's fitting.  Today I finished Mr. Mercedes.  I gave it a three.  Goodreads readers gave it a 3.87 (average of readers I believe).  Bookmarks gave it a 3.5 although the Star Tribune gave it a 2.  If I could have given it a half, I may have boosted it to a 3.5.  The last 1/4 of the book caused the lower score.  All in al, I think my 3 (or 3.5) was a fair score.  

Comments

LH said…
I like this bookmarks scale.

Why'd you give Jon Scieska's book a 1?

Is it horrible? I love that guy.
7:09 AM
mm said…
LH- It probably should have been a two. It's an basically a bunch of well known authors writing mini mysteries about this publisher guy. I loved Guys Write for Guys Read because all of the stories didn't try to fit. Who Done It? was too much. Plus, I'm not a super big mystery person. I merely didn't think it worked.
8:09 AM
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