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Rachel (Miss Perfection) wrote: "I don't know if you've heard of this, but it's been blowing up in the blogosphere.
An author, Kathleen Hale became obsessed with a book reviewer who have Hale's book a negative review. Hale proce..."
What She Did Is Horrible. Stalking a Reviewer is Not Okay
An author, Kathleen Hale became obsessed with a book reviewer who have Hale's book a negative review. Hale proce..."
What She Did Is Horrible. Stalking a Reviewer is Not Okay
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Other bloggers are doing a November #Blackout where they refuse to review books for all of November.
Rachel (Miss Perfection) wrote: "SO not okay... Some people are boycotting HarperTeen books because they think someone from Harper Teen leaked Blythe's address....
Other bloggers are doing a November #Blackout where they refuse t..."
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The Author Clearly Needs Help. Clearly She is Not Thinking Straight
Other bloggers are doing a November #Blackout where they refuse t..."
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The Author Clearly Needs Help. Clearly She is Not Thinking Straight
Rachel (Miss Perfection) wrote: "SO not okay... Some people are boycotting HarperTeen books because they think someone from Harper Teen leaked Blythe's address....Other bloggers are doing a November #Blackout where they refuse t..."
I don't think people should boycott HarperTeen books.
@Kitty: i feel the same way. I hate what Hale did( it was quite a terrible thing) , but I don't feel that reviewers should boycott Harper Collins books. And I definitely won't stop reviewing books for all of November. I'm not boycotting HarperCollins books. And I'm not ceasing to review. I just don't feel like I should stop doing what I do just because of this while situation. I know that it affects book reviewers, but I think that people should just get over it. Let the law and the people involved handle it. The press and we don't need to be involved in it.
I read the article and...it kind of felt like the author was prepping for her next book. The whole article she is trying to turn this blogger into some sort of criminal and discredit her reviews. Personally i hate the idea that she was using other people's pictures but everyone has a right to anonymity on the internet and the author violated that. She turned this into a cyber-bullying case when all that happened is she had a hard time accepting bad reviews......I'm sorry for all the senseless rambling but i'm really bothered by both sides of this story!
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where she blew up at one of my favorite reviewers and liked up all the good reviews on her book. Does anyone remember that?
An author, Kathleen Hale became obsessed with a book reviewer who have Hale's book a negative review. Hale proceeded to stalk this reviewer online and eventually went to her house. Yeah, NOT okay. Hale wrote an article about this experience and wrongly glorifies what she did. You can read it here:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014...
How do you feel about this? Are any of Hale's actions reasonable? Do you agree with what she did? Blythe's review is apparently really scathing and bad but does that justify what Hale did?