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so today I wanted to do something a little different I wanted to do a video
explaining my rating system and how I review books and kind of what I judge
them on when I do review them because just like everybody else
I do use the star rating system star rating system is not always consistent
and I realized that this is a kind of video that I've never really done before
I haven't really explained totally how my ratings work and how my reviews work
I think I do have quite a difference in how I do that then a lot of other
booktubers and book reviewers so I think it would be beneficial for any of my
viewers to know kind of what's going on inside of my brain when I'm doing book reviews
Now. Unfortunately. I can't just straight up tell you how my rating
system works because I think in order for you to truly understand why I review
things the way that I review them you have to understand why I started to
review books in the first place and in order to understand why I started to
review books in the first place well we have to turn the pages of my past and
take a look back into my childhood
Once upon a time -No that doesn't sound right
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far -wait! There must be a way, not cliche, nor a copyright
There's always a way! No! Not you, I- Too late!
Our tale it begins a good many years back
I did not say-
With our heroine innocent...
-you could come -wha-what?!?!
...younger...
...and milder. Oh. Okay.
But advanced! Craving big words that JF seemed to lack
Look! Books for the older! They're much thicker, wilder!
This pigtailed delight with eyes full of wonder
Undertook that epic quest to the section: YA
Ooooooh! Aaaaaaaahhhhh!
With a passport to knowledge, a thirst, and a hunger,
Books did she plunder amid joyous sashay
But aghast! All those words, those terrible fiends!
They bit at her, slashed at her, blinded her, haunted her! "No-oo!"
And she flung them away, enraged: "Oh, how can this be?!"
Betrayed, dismayed, cried out for her: "MOTHER!!!"
"Once my friends. but no more!
"Vile, treacherous things! Relate vulgarities eyes such as mine shouldn't see.
"Never again shall I read, for these books are fiends!" *heartbroken sob*
"Unless... *sniff* ...pretty please?
You'd proof-read them for me? *sniff sniff*"
She sat thinking years later, hands on her knees:
"Would that there were a resource for ones such as myself
To warn us explicit as to the content of these
And whether or not they'd be good for one's shelf
I cannot be the only waterless fish
floundering for a good book without all of that junk
Good quality mixed with good values oughta be niche! That the two are at odds is a myth to debunk.
She thought and she pondered as to their sad fate When she and many others on bad books lost their time
And if some reader, a hero, would step to the plate
The answer came quick, fit to end our small rhyme.
"Why not I? For I know the worth of a book In character, pacing, and in story told true.
"I know good morals don't totally ruin a look And maybe I can help a reader like you."
O-kaaaaaaaaay....
Soooo...
That just happened.
You can thank or blame probably The Greatest Showman and my current
addiction to its soundtrack for that one and The Library Ninja because she
recently told me she thought my poetry was clever
so yeah that's who you can blame or thank, but all in all I hope you enjoyed this little performance.
so basically as a young teen and someone who had been
raised in a judeo-christian faith with pretty strict conservative beliefs which
yes by the way I do still retain today yeah a lot of the stuff in the young
adult books completely traumatized me so that has a big influence on how I review
and rate books because I rate books first and foremost for personal
enjoyment and if I start reading a book that's just slapping me in the face with
everything that I have personally oppose in my morals, my values, and my
beliefs yeah I'm not gonna enjoy that book I'm not going to enjoy that book so
it's gonna get a lower rating and I might not even finish it right I have a
series of filters that I use when I'm reviewing a book so like one of the
first ones is Personal Enjoyment one of the next things that I look at is style
and execution so the Quality of the book how's the writing, how are the
characters, how's the plot, how's mystery? etc etc etc and then one of the next
filters is gonna be that Morals and Values filter so when I started
reviewing books here on booktube that was one of my big things was that morals
and values filter it's still one of my big things but I've learned how to
adjust it. So it used to be when I was reading a book and I hit that morals and
values filter and it wasn't quite sifting all the way through that filter
I'd just give it a lower rating and I would say yep didn't really like it
wasn't for me and toss it aside nowadays I'm trying to become a better source for
a broader audience so I will review the book I will probably give it a lower rating
because of whatever it was that wouldn't fit through that morals and values
filter but I will explain it in the review. So that last filter is Age
Appropriateness I think this discussion has gone around booktube
before how can one booktuber possibly judge if
a book is appropriate for a certain age range because we all have different
opinions opinions and this is coming from you know the person with the
judeo-christian beliefs and background right so someone who does not have that
background is going to be reading something at a younger age that I
probably never would have touched right? So what I'm suggesting is don't focus so
much on the age appropriateness level like don't try and decide whether or not
it's appropriate for a certain age group just tell me what's in there that might
be offensive to people that's all I want to know I just want to know if there's
swearing or smut or massive gore and violence -any kind of controversial
things that might offend somebody so this is what I have started to do and I do
pair it with a movie style rating which I think is pretty simple because I mean
because movies even though they have the age rating listed on the back I mean not
not everybody follows the suggested age guidance I know a
six-year-old who used to watch a pg-13 movie all of the time growing up and I
have met a twelve-year-old who likes to watch rated R horror movies I mean as
long as their parents are okay with it that's up to them but the thing is the
movie like rating provides a good generic guideline to let people kind of
know the content that is in a book for example The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I would probably give this book a a pg-13 rating because it deals with a lot
of big ideas but scary ideas I mean this is all about a Jewish-sympathetic family
surviving in Nazi Germany so there's a lot of stuff in there that is not
necessarily gonna be great for younger kids to read but it's a really really
good book right so pg13 I would recommend this for mature kids if they
want to know more about this kind of time period or if they really like these
type of stories, right? This book -Vicious by V.E. Schwab- now this book I would rate
heavily R because there's a lot of swearing in it. Other than that
I didn't have a problem with anything in this book I thought it was a really
great book I think the characters are interesting I think the plot was great
and the storytelling was fantastic but it would definitely be rated R because
of a lot, a lot of swearing. Okay, and how the age appropriateness thing kind of
plays in here is Vicious by V.E. Schwab is an adult book okay so this is shelved in
the adult section it's about adult characters -well there is one child
character- but it's an adult book this is for adults this is written for adults
and it has a lot of swearing in it so I did give it so I would give it an
R rating but I would probably give it a five-star rating because of just how
much I enjoyed it now there is another book that had so much swearing in it it
would have been rated R but I did not finish it and I was not enjoying it and
one of the reasons for that was because it was a young adult book it was called
Dorothy Must Die and I know it was very popular, it probably might still be very
popular but I started reading it and I did not like there was not much swearing
in a book in the young adult section because it was for teenagers and I
personally do not think you need that kind of language in a teenage book so
that book i dnf'd and that book I would have rated R and I
probably would have given it like one star if I actually finished it and
reviewed it so that's kind of how the age appropriateness thing plays into the
scale and how it helps me judge books so there is some content I'm more okay with
in books that are intended for older audiences whereas if they were in a book
intended for younger audiences -yeah, no way. No way.
So when it comes down to it how I rate books is not solely reliable on the star rating that I give a book
because behind that star rating you've got all of these filters back here that
I push a book through as I'm writing a review before I give it that star rating
and so the star rating is basically a summary of 1) My personal enjoyment of the
book, 2) the quality of the book, 3) the morals and values that stuck out in the book
and 4) the age appropriateness scale
so in my reviews I always try to explicitly
detail what I liked and what I didn't like and their all
SPOILER-FREE So to sum up the reason that I started reviewing books was to
try and create a resource for other conservatives like-minded
judeo-christian believers like myself so I don't just want to generically say yes
this book was fantastic I want to tell you first and foremost that you might
not like it because of the swearing but I am also attempting to keep a broader
audience which is also why I'm saying some readers might not find this
appropriate because of the swearing but if you don't care it's fantastic! So star
ratings are a summary of my book reviews if you want to know why I rated a book
with any particular number of stars you need to go into the review where I'm
gonna talk about those filters and what I thought of the book itself alright
thanks for sticking around and I will see you from this side of the camera
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