Willa Cline's Blog - Posts Tagged "libraries"
Random thought
I was doing some research on something and was looking at someone's Goodreads page. She reviews a lot of books, and they all seem to be rated one or two stars. The most she ever gives any book is 3 stars.
My question is -- why would you bother to read all those books if you didn't like them? As far as I'm concerned, life is too short to read bad books. If I start a book and don't care for it, I stop reading it. I don't force myself to read something I hate, and then rate it 1 star.
People may look at the books I've read and think that I rate them too high -- almost all of the books I read, I rate 4 or 5 stars -- but it's because I don't see any point in reading a book that I don't like. If it was my job to read books, that would be different, but I read completely for pleasure.
Ebooks have made it possible to download a sample of a book so you can decide whether you want to buy and read the whole thing. I guess libraries serve that purpose as well, but with ebooks, you don't have to lug them all home.
My question is -- why would you bother to read all those books if you didn't like them? As far as I'm concerned, life is too short to read bad books. If I start a book and don't care for it, I stop reading it. I don't force myself to read something I hate, and then rate it 1 star.
People may look at the books I've read and think that I rate them too high -- almost all of the books I read, I rate 4 or 5 stars -- but it's because I don't see any point in reading a book that I don't like. If it was my job to read books, that would be different, but I read completely for pleasure.
Ebooks have made it possible to download a sample of a book so you can decide whether you want to buy and read the whole thing. I guess libraries serve that purpose as well, but with ebooks, you don't have to lug them all home.
