Front Matter
Introduction for Life
This leaf is reserved for the Hobbit who keeps the volume.
She reads with muddy boots and clean motives — chasing stories that smell of rain, courage, and the kind of laughter that survives hard weather. Prefer the book that sends you outdoors afterward. Prefer the film that leaves dirt under your fingernails of the mind. Prefer the song you can hum while stacking wood.
How the book is arranged. Reviews are the body of the volume, divided into three Parts — Books, Movies and Shows. The Journal sits outside them: writing about reading and watching in general rather than about any one work. At the back, the Appendix lists every work reviewed in alphabetical order, and the Tags index the same book by theme.
Two numbers. Each review carries a chapter number and a page number, and they do different jobs. The chapter number is a position: the newest review in a Part is always Chapter 1, so everything below it shifts down as the book grows. The page number is fixed at publication and never moves — the first thing written here is page 1, and it will be page 1 forever.
Star rating key. Each book is rated out of five stars. The fifth star is reserved only for the best book. Here is a quick guid to how they are rated.
1 star: This book is not at all good.
2 star: The reason this book is not higher is it is either not well written, has theological downfalls, and/or was not enjoyable to read.
3 star: This book was good. Worth a read, and could bring up some interesting discussions. May have some theological, world view or writing down falls, but overall fun!
4 star: This was a really really good book. I enjoyed it a lot!
5 star: This book is amazing! I love it and most likely have read it at least twice. It is great!!! You absolutely have to read this.
Nota Bene: When a book is said to have a perfect ending and not enough at the same time, this is not contradicting. Good books should leave you wanting more of it in a good way. However, also note books can still be really good, even if they don’t leave you wanting more!