Notions of a Texas Ranch Girl

Oct. 19, 2006

Book rating/review website

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Does anyone know of a website that rates books for adult content vs family friendliness??    
I came across this website in a blog a couple weeks ago - it broke down the content of books, objectionable material, etc. similar to how pluggedinonline.com does for movies, but I didn't bookmark it, and now its driving me crazy, because I can't remember the name of the site.   This webpage was designed for letting parents know what kind of content books contained for your kids (so you don't have to pre-read everything).

I think it had fiction in the name????    I found it while browsing other blogs, so maybe someone who reads mine may have read the same one.

I found commonsensemedia.org when I tried to google it, which seems to be a pretty good site too, but couldn't come up with that site I had seen on someone's blog.   I posted this in the forums, but I don't think many people visit the forums here.

Help... anyone???

 

Edited to say - I still haven't found "that" site I had seen, but have come across a couple decent book review sites.   Discovery Journey rates both books and movies, but is not super easy to navigate, doesn't have an "at a glance" type option.  I also did several searches for books I was interested in to see how they reviewed them, and none of the titles I searched had a review.   But I understand it takes some time to build up a decent site, and it may still have a title someone wants to look up, or give an idea for a good read.   Living Book Reviews has a very thorough rating and review process, but just doesn't have as many titles as I would like to see.  I actually signed up to be a reviewer though, since we read mostly "living books", and perhaps I could help increase their numbers of reviews.   (In case you don't know what a living book is, in my own definition, a living book is a high quality piece of literature that is interesting and imparts real ideas and knowlege in a way that makes learning enjoyable.  Sonlight is full of living books.)

 

Edited again - I found it!   Facts on Fiction is the site I had seen.   It is very thorough in its review, but again, does have a limited number of books reviewed.

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Oct. 21, 2006 - Hello!

Posted by alaskahannah
Thank you for the comment. I've enjoyed reading your blog. My three oldest (all girls) were born in 97, 99, and 02. My son was born last year, and I'm due in a couple weeks with another girl.
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Nov. 6, 2006 - thanks for the encouragement.

Posted by REInvestor
And thanks for this site. It looks good. I haven't heard of it before. I also signed up and did a few review for the Living Book Reviews. I had forgotten about them recently but you reminded me. I ought to go and review some more books for them.
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