[issybird]

Fbone's post rating 2013 books in the five-star reads thread had me look at my own ratings for the books I read this past year. Counting the ratings I know I'll give for the last two books I'll finish (coming in just under the wire at 100), this is my distribution:

Five stars......7
Four stars.....21
Three stars...41
Two stars.....26
One star........5
Abandoned.....2

Not counting the abandoned books, this averages to 2.99 stars. This seems about where it should be, as each book starts out at a mental three stars and its rating is adjusting up or down from there. The distribution around three stars is nearly perfect; I could wish I were reading slightly better books, however. Not every book can be five stars or even four stars, but I'd like to do a better job of weeding out the clunkers, those which are not quite bad enough to abandon but which are worse than the baseline.

(Another goal for 2014: Pick better books!)

I'm curious to see how others' ratings averaged out.