Book Ranking Guide

How often do you write up a book review vs just ranking a book?

Everyone reviews and recommends books in various ways.

And everyone has a way they rank each book.

We love putting reviews and ratings in Goodreads for authors, since that's such a large reader community. But you do you, boo.

We keep track of each book we read, both in Goodreads, and also on a spreadsheet (because hello, we're book nerds!). When we update them in our spreadsheet - which let's face it - is just really a big long TBR list. We include the title, author and genre, as well as date read (month/year), followed by our ratings, trope or keyword notes, and audiobook narrator, if it's an audiobook.

For the ratings, we use two columns. The first one is the general book rating. You know the typical 5 star rating scale. But THEN, for the genres we tend to read, we also have a SMUT scale.

Yep you heard that right. Because ... and hear us out ... when we want to read a book, we want the general rate to know if we should spend our time reading the book, but we want it know if we're going to love the smut inside the book as well.

Over the next month, we'll be highlighting our favorite books we read over July, so this cheatsheet of how we rate books might be helpful.

We better get back to our book,

Brindlewood Books
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