How to Read My (Highly) Subjective Book Reviews

August 13, 2025

Each review follows this template:

  • What I Knew Before Reading
  • What I Liked
  • What I Didn’t Like
  • What I Knew After Reading
  • Rating (1–5):

Rating scale (1–5)

  • 5Life-changing.
  • 4Learned a lot.
  • 3Worthwhile but not exceptional.
  • 2Low-ROI way to learn this topic.
  • 1Learned nothing.

These scores measure how much I learned, not the book’s objective quality. For example, the world’s best book on the English alphabet would get a 1.