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Laura Van Barneveld

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Hi, I'm Laura, a 26-year-old booklover and overall geek living in the Netherlands. Author of 'Time Capsule'.

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Random things about me:
🔸Autistic & ADHD
🔸INFJ
🔸Hippos are my favorite animals
🔸Yellow is my favorite color
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After having trouble rating books I decided to create my own rating ladder that I use when I want to rate books. I won't bore you with the very elaborate, descriptive version I use for myself. This is what it basically comes down to:

5.0: Perfect
4.5: Great
4.0: Very Good
3.5: Good
3.0: Average
2.5: Below average
2.0: Bad
1.5: Very Bad
1.0: Terrible

Also, please note that I always round down. I know this makes no sense mathematically, but it makes much more sense in this context to me. So that means if I give a book a 4.5 rating, I wil ...more

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