If you follow me over at my other blog, Engedi Artistry, you'll notice that I have started reviewing music albums. I've found the whole reviewing process to be really fun, and since I do a lot of reading, I wanted to bring that idea on over to LYEATT with books.
My book reviews will be a little bit different than my album reviews. At the end of my album reviews, I have a star rating (out of a potential 5), pros, cons, and suggested tracks to check out. I don't really think that is all that appropriate for books, so I'm going to take a different approach to reviewing books instead. And as you saw at the top of the post, I have created some new graphics to accompany them!
I'm going to have three essential categories that books will fall into: Summit It, Queue It, and Skip It. I'm sure you can probably figure out what that last category means. If you're wondering what the others mean, I'm glad to explain below!
Before we get into that, though, I will throw out that my book reviews will ONLY take place after I finish a book. I'm not going write the review midway through a reading unless I deem a book is so awful that it is not worth finishing, at which point that book will undoubtedly receive a "Skip It" classification. I definitely think those will be few and far between, though, as I tend to not read books that don't interest me at all. (I'm not a professional book reviewer, so I'm allowing myself a little bias in choice!)
Let's get into explaining the ratings.
Summit It
This is the highest badge of honor you can get from me. The idea here is that if I give a book a "Summit It" rating, I think you should put this book at the top of your "next to read" list. My choice for the word "summit" is that I wanted a single word to convey this idea of putting something at the top. You can read my corresponding post on Engedi Artistry where I design the graphics for each ratings, and my wife clearly didn't like the word choice. Hey, I really, really tried to find a different word, but for me, "summit" was the one that stuck!
Queue It
I know they don't use this word anymore, but for those who can remember, Netflix used to refer to the "My List" section as the queue. This where you'd place stuff you were interested in watching at some point. In much the same way, this is the rating I'll give books that I'd encourage reading somewhere down the line, maybe not right away. And if you don't end up reading it, no real loss. This is probably the rating I'll be giving books the most often.
Skip It
This one is pretty self explanatory. Again, because I choose the books I want to read, I really hope I don't have to give out this rating. Plus, it would crush me to basically say that something that somebody has worked on forever isn't worth checking out at all. Regardless, there are still some duds out there, so this rating has to exist.
And that's it. It's a pretty simple system. To ensure that it's not too simple, I've gone through in my head what I would rate each book I've read in the past year, and every book fit nicely into one of these categories. I hope that you appreciate the reviews coming in the future!
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