Celia
Celia asked Manuel Alfonseca:

I am smiling because you rated your own book 'Jacob's Ladder' with four stars, not five. I have never seen another author do that for his own book! What kept you from rating the book five stars? BTW, I am going to read it and hopefully prove to you that you should rate it five stars. The Catholic Book Club Group is reading it in April.

Manuel Alfonseca Your question has a very simple answer: I have 30 novels in Goodreads and have rated them all, with the following criterion:
a) I gave 5 stars to my four personal favorites among my books.
b) I assigned 4 stars and 3 stars to the remaining books, in a more or less balanced way (actually there are 15 with 4* and 11 with 3*).
But some of my readers strongly disagree with my classification. I hope you will be one of them :-)

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