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i'm more picky when rating fictional books where i start with a 3 star while non-fiction books start with a 4.75 star (and the rating goes down accordingly).

Why don't you give 5-stars to non-fiction books?

  1. I don't want my storygraph's 5-star reads to only contain non-fiction books.
  2. It has to be really life changing for it to deserve that 5-stars.

Where can i find your favourite books?

  1. Favourite books of all time will be displayed on storygraph's 'favourite shelf'.
  2. Books that left me with some sort of emotion or feeling or lesson after completing it are tagged as 'crumbful'

Can we be friends?

Yeah, just send a friend request. I don't do followers. I'm kaypoh, so I want to see what you're reading too.
[ kaypoh means busybody in Singlish ]

FICTION BOOK RATINGS

Rating Benchmark
no stars DNF (unlikely)
1 ⭐ haunting
2 ⭐ actively hated it
3 ⭐ i had fun / as expected (base rating)
4 ⭐ thoroughly enjoyed it
5 ⭐ haunting

NON-FICTION BOOK RATINGS

Rating Benchmark
no stars DNF (unlikely)
1 ⭐ unintelligible
2 ⭐ missed the point
3 ⭐ not convincing
4 ⭐ unorganised
4.75 learned something (base rating)
5 ⭐ haunting
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Pub: 13 Aug 2025 11:37 UTC

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