Compass Book Ratings

Best Audiobooks for Family Road Trip A family road trip is supposed to be a bonding experience and a shared reading experience (think cross-generational Harry Potter appeal) can make books that much richer.  When you hit about mile 300 and it is a time for a change, an audiobook that everyone can enjoy is just [...]

The Problem I love to give my niece and nephews books for their birthdays and Christmas, but my youngest nephew has me stumped.  I take great pride in finding the perfect book for each child, but this nephew is a reluctant reader.  For his last birthday I ordered him a Star Wars graphic novel because [...]

March 19, 2013 is the one year anniversary of Compass Book Ratings.  On this date in 2012, we flipped the switch on our new website with a searchable database (If you haven’t tried it, you really should!) and our new name, Compass Book Ratings.   (We were formerly Squeaky Clean Reads.)  A lot has happened [...]

Thank you to all the patrons who entered their libraries in our 2013 Library Giveaway.  It was fun to see libraries from the East Coast to the West Coast entered.  The winner of the 2013 Giveaway was the Sanpete County Bookmobile, Fairview, Utah. Yes, a bookmobile!  How fun!  The Sanpete County Bookmobile had a few [...]

With the posting of the book review and content analysis of Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon, Compass Book Ratings now has 700 books in our database.  We fired-up the website on March 19, 2012 with 228 reviews from our predecessor site, Squeaky Clean Reads.  Thanks to some fabulous reviewers we have added 472 book reviews [...]

Ah, sweet romance!  With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we polled our reviewers to find out what their top picks were for romance authors and romance novels.  For those readers in search of the next swoon-worthy read, here is an eclectic mix of what they came up with…. Emily Recommends Georgette Heyer Growing up, [...]

With the posting of the book review and content analysis of The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene, Compass Book Ratings now has 600 books in our database.  We fired-up the website on March 19, 2012 with 228 reviews from our predecessor site, Squeaky Clean Reads.  Thanks to some fabulous reviewers we have added [...]

What is your Fear Factor? Frankly, my fear factor is pretty pathetic.  I do not naturally gravitate towards scary books and I positively flee from horror movies.  I also don’t generally encourage my children to read scary books because I prefer to not have them crawling into my bed at night in a hyped state [...]

With the posting of the book review and content analysis of Pyg:  The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig by Russell Potter, Compass Book Ratings now has 500 books in our database.  We fired-up the website on March 19, 2012 with 228 reviews from our predecessor site, Squeaky Clean Reads.  Thanks to some fabulous reviewers, [...]

KSL 5, a Utah Station, posted a feature on clean romance novels today with some fabulous suggestions!  At the end of the video segment and the article, Compass Book Ratings was mentioned as a resource for taking the guesswork out of selecting a book.  Here is the video:   See link to full KSL post. Happy [...]