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[fabulousfrock]

I said last week I would talk about different salads, but I decided that instead I would just mention the salads I'm eating on this journal periodically. Yes, try to control your enthusiasm. Salads

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[bluemalibu]

I made a great egg salad yesterday. It was nice to come home to that tonight so that dinner is taken care of :) I used bib lettuce to accompany it which made a nice green crunch for it.

And. . .book reviews are tricky.

[lindajsingleton]

I'm okay with 4 and 5 stars. Even 3 is okay if they add something positive.

But when I see only a 1 or even 2 star...well I remind myself that book taste is subjective and some readers won't care for my story and some reviewers can be tough.

Still if I don't connect with a book, which happens sometimes for otherwise well-written books, I just don't rate it.

Mostly I give out 5 stars, with books that I liked but not loved, getting 4 stars. If I really love a book, I'll give it a short review too (on Goodreads). And I'll recommend it to everyone.

I'm reading MAZE RUNNER now and can already tell this will be a 5 star book. Completely intrigued and caught up in the excitement.

[tessagratton]

I sometimes have this problem - but solved it when I remembered that my favorite books to review are ones I hated. I love love love love being snarky and obnoxious about bad books and movies... which I clearly can't do anymore. So I can be mean about movies... but have to only talk about 5 star books.

[fabulousfrock]

Oh, me too...it's much more fun to trash stuff than praise it. I sound like a horrible person. Anyway, it's less fun to trash now because I know too many writers...(unless they're the rare total douchebag writer, har)

[tessagratton]

Even when they ARE the rare total d-bag, I don't want to trash them in public. Now, at 2am in a kitchen at a retreat with other awesome peeps? BRING IT ON.

[authortarakelly]

Your posts always make me hungry. That sounds delicious right now..and it's fall and I can't find good produce. Grr

[fabulousfrock]

Yeah...I love fall because squash and apples are my favorites, but I know you don't like squash, so that's sort of boring.

I agree...but the world is too small (and I am too nice), so five stars it is. Theoretically... Seeing as I rate about...ten books a year maybe? -_-

Okay. I will rate your book truthfully. But it's unlikely I won't like it, since I already read a lot of it in manuscript form!

[megancrewe]

re: GoodReads, I got around that problem by not rating the books I list at all--I only included my absolute favorites in each genre, without a rating (they used to have ratings, and the favorites were not all 5 stars, so this does make a difference).

[fabulousfrock]

Can you not rate them? That would make it less harsh...

[megancrewe]

Yep! You can add books to your bookshelves (on each book's page there's an "Add to my books" button) and just not click on the star thing. See mine here.