Fully Booked | The Ratings and Reviews Tag @FullyBookedMelissa | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
How do rate and review what I read? Watch this video to discover that I don't even know. 🤔

Original Tag is from Gunpowder Fiction & Plot: youtube.com/watch?v=IuynyN67WI4&t=0s
I was tagged by Courtney Ferriter: youtube.com/watch?v=Rua3YM6xUOM

I tag:
🌟 Jen the Librarian youtube.com/c/JentheLibrarianreads
🌟 Margaret Pinard youtube.com/c/MargaretPinard

Other channels mentioned
🎥 Remembered Reads youtube.com/c/RememberedReads
🎥 MercysBookishMusings youtube.com/user/MercysBookishMusings
🎥 Rick MacDonnell youtube.com/c/RickMacDonnell
🎥 insert book pun here youtube.com/c/insertbookpunhere

Questions:
1. Tag folks.
2. How do you know you’ve just finished a good book? Is it a thinking or a feeling response?
3. When you begin to form your review/rating - what is the first question you ask yourself?
4. Do you do star ratings? Why? Why not?
a. If YES
i. Explain your star rating system – what does a good book get in your rating system?
ii. Is your star rating consistent? i.e. are all your 5 star books better than all your 4 star books?
b. If NO
i. What language do you use to convey the quality of a book in your reviews?
ii. Does this form an informal rating or ranking?
5. Do you believe every book has its perfect reader? Does this contradict the idea that a book can be “bad”?
6. What book that you hated have you recommended?
7. What makes a book good, bad or great by your evaluation?
8. When evaluating the quality of a book do you have specific criteria or aspects of the book, such as character development, that you consider? Does this change if you are writing an in-depth review vs. just thinking about the book for enjoyment?
9. Do you consider star ratings or average ratings when choosing books to read/add to your TBR?
10. Who on BookTube does reliable and interesting reviews of books that you know you can use to decide if a book is for you or not? What makes their reviews so good?
11. Does that/those Booktuber(s) use different language than you to evaluate and review the overall quality of a book?


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