The Gentle Lamb Scale Explanation

A reader's guide

If you’re reading along and all of a sudden encounter a book with a Lamb rating like so:

You might be wondering what this all means!

The Gentle Lamb scale is a diagnostic tool for these reading times. While just about every book you encounter here is a book I recommend, the relative number of lambs tells you how light or dark a book is:

Note: four and five lambers aren’t always funny or sweet. Some mysteries and fantasy books fall in this category because while they’re not playful comedies, they’re engrossing, imaginative, and fun to read without being dystopian, gory, or brutal. Their lightness is that they can take you away from the hardships of life, which sometimes is all we want.