postcard 11: every book i've given five stars
It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it off you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. I long for a large room to myself, with books and nothing else, where I can shut myself up, and see no one, and read myself into peace. —Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written in October 1904 One thing about me is that i am very very stingy with my 5 star ratings. This doesn’t mean that I hate literature—I just like having a way to truly distinguish what books i loved throughout my life. I am very strict with my 5 star ratings in order to do the other books on the list justice. Sometimes, I will rate a book 5 stars and then bump it down; sometimes I will rate a book 4 stars and then bump it up. While dynamic, this list is still pretty much set in stone. Here is how I decide if a book is a true five star for me: Has plot and writing I consider perfect. At least tw
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