I feel I can't give a book a rating even if I do remember it: if Iĭidn't actively dislike it, but the pleasure I got from it did not

There you have my interpretation of the 5-star system for ratingīooks (subjective in all cases, no doubt). Star), or blissful (4 or 5 stars), or indifferent and a littleĬontemptuous (2 stars), or indifferent but respectful (3 stars): In many cases, I don't remember the book itself,īut plot summaries and thematic analyses from the criticism I've readĬases, even if I can only recall one or two scenes from the book, Iĭo remember my reaction: it may have been violently negative (1 Recalling the content of a book is the most fascinating, andĭepressing, of all. Right now, my “to read” tag contains around a hundredīooks, and I don't particularly want it to grow much more the onlyīooks I want to add to it are those I haven't heard of yet, new ones Reading any more fiction after my 50s, except perhaps new works. Out there, that I'm toying with the idea of drawing the line and not Obligation to read the thousands and tens of thousands of great books In fact, such is my desire to be free of the Will have only read another 300, at most. Just how slow and picky a reader I am, that in another 25 years I Nearly 37 I've only read around 300 “books.” I suspect, based on Picture books and children's novels I read as a child, or the popularįiction I read from 10 to 15 (probably around 80 novels), from 12 to Watched thousands, not hundreds, of movies. Has read thousands, not hundreds, of books, as the true cinephile has Knowledge of literature or film has learned that the true bibliophile Might be timidly inclined to congratulate themselves on their The designation “reader” being at the core of my identity, I

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