Happy New (Recommendation System)!

There's been some confusion regarding this blog's recommendation system.  The confusion is entirely my fault.  I should not have gone with an A-F "grading" scale if I weren't actually "grading" books.

So, we're going to start "grading" books.

In order to accomplish the blog's goal of "recommending" books, the grading scale works out like this:

A - Highly recommended
B - Recommended
C - OK, you might like it
D - A waste of time
F - A HUGE waste of time

If a book, let's say it's a sports-themed, non-fiction book, earns a recommendation in the "A" range, the blog post will note that the book is "Highly recommended for fans of [we'll just insert the sport of tonsil hockey here as a placeholder]."  In other words, even an "A" recommendation may not be a book that I suggest you read.  It depends on your tastes.  Certainly some books in the "A" range will be recommended to all.  (Note to my son:  Some books are long.  Some books are bad.  As a math dude, you should understand that all long books are not bad.)

I wanted to get this post in because all future posts (including posts which are in process) will utilize our new system.

One other note. I am generally a stickler for grammar and punctuation (for using made-up words like "stickler," not so much). As I've stated in various posts, I am well aware that this blog does not utilize the well-established "underline book titles" convention. There are some places where book titles are in quotes. There are other places where book titles are merely capitalized.  While I apologize in advance for being such a heathen as to ignore this convention, it bothers me.  It really does.  This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up nights.  Seriously.  I decided, however, about 50 posts in that I would make the lack of consistency in the identification of book titles the consistency for the site.  Therefore and henceforth, I will utilize whatever convention I want in any willy nilly fashion I see fit.

Live long, read and prosper.