You should know I love to read. You've probably noticed the goodreads application on my side bar. I love goodreads because I am easily able to make a list of books that I want to read. If I hear a recommendation on a book I quickly go to goodreads and click a button to add it to my list. I love that I can see other people's ratings and reviews as well.
There is on thing that goodreads falls short on and that is a content rating on a book. More than once I picked up a book that had received rave reviews only to find out that it had too much swearing or violence than I wanted to read. It makes me wary to read something unless I get a recommendation from someone I know personally and knows my taste in books.
I have found some remedies for this problem. There are multiple sites that I have found that do content ratings but these two are my favorite. The first is a website called The Literate Mother. I particularly love this website because it has children's books. There are a lot of children's books that are good clean books, but still might be inappropriate for younger kids because they are too intense or have situations that young one's shouldn't have to deal with. They rate each book between 0 and 5 in the areas of Language, Violence, Sexual Content and Adult Themes.
The other site is Squeaky Clean Reads I like this one particularly because it allowes the users to rate the book in each area. This way you don't have to worry about the if the author of the site is too liberal or conservative for you. You can get an idea overall of how general public views the book.
Also I found a great online used bookstore. There were a couple books that I wanted to get for my kids but was unable to get at any of the 3 library systems around here. I knew that one of them would be outgrown in a matter of months so I really didn't want pay the $14 to buy it new. I went online and found Once Sold Tales. Almost all of the books are $3.25 and have FREE SHIPPING! I'll be honest I was wondering if it was a too good to be true deal and that I would never receive the books but they came a week after ordering in good condition.
So good luck with your books and let me know when you read a good one so that I can put it on my list to read.
2 comments:
Amen to that sister! thanks for the links!
Hi Allison,
I found your blog from my sister's (dailygrapefruit). I have a book blog with a few books on that hopefully someday will have many good books on it. Just an FYI. The site is: http://rac-books.blogspot.com/
Take care!
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