I have long used a scalable and straightforward rating system for just about everything.
My view is that most things in life will be OK, some things will not be OK, and some things will be great. This is the bell curve of life.
| Rating | Comment | #Books |
| 1-2 | Terrible | 0 |
| 3-4 | Meh | 1 |
| 5-6 | OK | 4 |
| 7-8 | Good | 2 |
| 9 | Great | 2 |
| 10 | In my top 5 | 0 |
2025: Reading List
2026 (11)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025) by Omar El Akkad: 9/10
Small Things Like These (2024) by Claire Keegan: 9/10
Gardens of the Moon (1999) by Steven Erikson:7/10
My Friends (2025) by Fredrik Backman: 7/10
How Children Fail (1982) by John Holt: 7/10
Patriot (2025) by Alexei Navalny: 6/10
Intermezzo (2024) by Sally Rooney: 6/10
Mindful Soldier (2026) by Ash Alexander-Cooper: 6/10
On Character (2025) by General Stanley McChrystal: 6/10
The War for Kindness (2019) by Jamil Zaki: 4/10
War From the Ground Up (2018) by Emile Simpson.
On the Stack
Katabasis by Rebecca Kuang
The Collector by John Fowler
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
Serendipities 