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And now I can have a new pastime! Instead of simply mocking the reviews other people leave on books, now I can mock the reviews other people leave on my reviews! Joy!
Like the woman who bitched at me for saying that a book with 26 letters and 26 illustrations could have maybe one person who wasn't white. Just maybe. Apparently I'm very "narrow minded" because the author lives in Vermont.
I responded somewhat politely, but sometime later I realized - hey, fuck you! I gave that book four fucking stars! I think a four star review entitles me to say, by the way, next time she could include a little diversity even if she DOES live in the apparently benighted state of Vermont.
And my finding the book The Kissing Hand to be sappy and sentimental means I'm not a warm and sensitive person, to which I can only say 1. if you can't do better to sound sarcastic than to add a NOT at the end, don't even try, that's so 1980s, and 2. it is sappy and sentimental, like eating pure syrup instead of syrup on bacon.
What gets me is I didn't even say anything mean in that review. Here, check it out. So the question is who is it, exactly, who has nothing better to do than to flame people they disagree with, and what does that say about them?
Not that I'm convinced I *am* an overly warm and sensitive person, if that means being sappy and sentimental all the time. I mean, I giggled when Ana declared that she was a Kind and a Loving Child, so that's gotta mean I'm going to the Heck or something, right? But that's not even the point.
Like the woman who bitched at me for saying that a book with 26 letters and 26 illustrations could have maybe one person who wasn't white. Just maybe. Apparently I'm very "narrow minded" because the author lives in Vermont.
I responded somewhat politely, but sometime later I realized - hey, fuck you! I gave that book four fucking stars! I think a four star review entitles me to say, by the way, next time she could include a little diversity even if she DOES live in the apparently benighted state of Vermont.
And my finding the book The Kissing Hand to be sappy and sentimental means I'm not a warm and sensitive person, to which I can only say 1. if you can't do better to sound sarcastic than to add a NOT at the end, don't even try, that's so 1980s, and 2. it is sappy and sentimental, like eating pure syrup instead of syrup on bacon.
What gets me is I didn't even say anything mean in that review. Here, check it out. So the question is who is it, exactly, who has nothing better to do than to flame people they disagree with, and what does that say about them?
Not that I'm convinced I *am* an overly warm and sensitive person, if that means being sappy and sentimental all the time. I mean, I giggled when Ana declared that she was a Kind and a Loving Child, so that's gotta mean I'm going to the Heck or something, right? But that's not even the point.
