Update about CBR

Hey look it's a non-review post!  I intentionally keep this type of stuff to an absolute minimum, mainly because the purpose behind the blog is book reviews.

To make things easier to find, I have started tagging (labeling) all my posts, and I thought it would be good to point this out.

Tag

• Review - The post is a book review (duh)
• <last name of author>  - If an author gets more than 2 reviews, I start tagging his reviews with his last name.  I don't bother for one-offs because if it's bad I won't be coming back to them (probably).
• General crap - Stuff about the blog, possibly a rant
• Definitions - Stuff like this
• Hall of Fame - A tag I intend to be very rare, but given out to books I especially enjoy.  I will endeavor to keep this specific to the *book* and not just blanket every author I like with it.

Books - what I like, what I don't like

 Everyone has different tastes in books, so here are some things I like and what I don't.

Likes:

Main character that has some confidence.  If an MC is constantly navel gazing about how lucky he or she is to have Sally (or Sammy) Love Interest actually like them, well that's going to get old quick.

First person POV

Characters that feel like they're real

Dislikes:

POV shifts - If you have a book which is essentially 2 or 3 stories which you jump between I'm going to drop it pretty fast.  It breaks the narrative, it pulls me out of one story bubble and puts me in another.  I'm old, it annoys me to have the story pause and have a different one start.

Stories where I dislike the main character.

Welcome! - The rating scale defined

 Welcome to the Curmudgeon's Corner Book reviews.

This scale started as a joke, but seemed to gain some kind of legitimacy, which is a never-ending source of bemusement to me, but after many many weeks of being bugged about it, I started this blog to aggregate my ratings.

I read a lot of books on Kindle Unlimited, so most of these books will be available through KU.

Now hopefully if I give a book a poor rating I don't get an author being butt-hurt in the comments, but his rating is just my opinion and if you write a book and I don't like it just means I don't like it.  Doesn't make it bad, just not to my taste.  So man up and accept that people are different.

Oh yeah, and I am probably not going to be terribly PC, so there's that.  You have been warned.

Curmudgeon scale

·       1 star:  Caused me physical pain, and possibly injury.  Did not finish.  Will avoid further works by the author.  Proceed with extreme caution, and possibly liberal alcohol. 

·       2 star:  Did not cause me physical pain, but still did not finish.  Probably won’t give the author another chance.

·       3 star:  Finished, but question whether or not that was wise.  May or may not give the author another chance.  Reading the sequel is 50/50 

·       4 star:  Finished it.  Decent.  Will probably read the sequel 

·       5 star:  Finished, enjoyed it thoroughly.   Highly recommended. 

·       5+ star:  Rare rating where the book rates at the top of the 5 scale  If you don't read this you probably hate fun.