Jess on New Girl

The synopsis seems like a standard thriller. What's so bad about it compared to other books in that genre?

> Class took a bi-weekly trip to the library with freedom to choose a book and write a few lines about what the book was about.

One of my first class field trips was to the local public library when I was in kindergarten. I was the one who convinced my parents to get library cards. They were immigrants so they were skeptical of anything being free, but after that, we went there almost once or more a week when I was a kid. Lots of great memories hanging out in the public library.

I find it hard to rate any book a 1, even if I hated it, since I can usually find some redeeming quality about it. Either that or it's so bland that it doesn't seem like it warrants the vitriol that a 1 seems to imply.

I hesitate to rate any book a 1 since I think you can usually find some redeeming quality in any book, even if you might not like it.

It's usually the ending that makes me downgrade my rating too. I also factor in re-readability. Most books fall in the "3" category for me, a few might make it into the "4" category, but "5"s are the rarest for me.

Making historical photos black and white when color photography was available can be used as a propaganda tool for that reason. It's why you see a lot of Civil Rights photos in the '60s in black and white when color photography was available.