A few years ago I made a deal with myself that I would never apply a star rating to a book that I would have scored < 3 (ETA this note that I mean “less than 3 stars” rather than [heart emoji]). I also went through my entire Goodreads (then pretty prolific) and deleted every single written review, leaving only the star ratings. Short of a book that I found particularly offensive that I thought should require content warnings, I had no written reviews and […]