Book Blogger Hop!

The Book Blogger Hop is hosted each weekend by Crazy for Books. I really meant to get this post up Friday, but it's technically Saturday now. We'll pretend it's Friday in terms of postingness. (Yes, that's a word in my universe.)

This week's question is: Do you use a rating system for your reviews? If so, what is it and why?

I do in fact use a rating system for my book reviews. I rate books out of 5 stars (and I have yet to rate anything below a 3, because I can usually find at least something that I liked about a book and if I really didn't like a book that I haven't agreed to review, I'll usually just not review it here). Honestly, I set up my rating system when I was getting started (I'm still very new to this blogging thing) because it seemed to be the convention, but it really works for me. I do use a lot of ".5"s on the end of stuff, though, because I'm frequently too indecisive to choose "4" or "5" for a good book.

In other news, I haven't had much time for reading lately because of homework and a science fiction story I'm working on with a friend of mine and more homework, but I'm hoping to finish Extraordinary this weekend so there should be a review of that up before long!