Huh...

[shipperx]

Dear Author breaks down the actions of the Author who stalked a Good Reads reviewer... and the breakdown reveals that the stalker's actions were about as creepy (and her recollection as inaccurate) as you would have suspected.  (Why did the Guardian publish this again?)

Smart Bitches also has interesting commentary.

Storify also has an interesting breakdown about how being published in the Guardian = privilege, which devolved into enabling/victim-blaming

Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

And it seemed like she switched straight into stalking, or ~investigative mode~ as soon as she read the negative updates. It wasn't like there was a long campaign of harassment and negative reviews, rather she admits herself that she immediately started looking into where else she could find that reviewer online as soon as she saw the less than favourable updates on her books. Not to mention her mother swiftly suggesting a background check, simply because someone was sharing negative thoughts on a freaking book

I can't believe she had the audacity to openly admit to all that, and still think that she somehow comes off as the reasonable one telling a cute antidote and being able to laugh at herself

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I wondered whether she youth-i-fied herself because she was reviewing YA. There seems to be a bi-annual preachy post by people about adults reading YA. So I wonder whether she's distancing herself from that (much like folks do with romances).

Plus, I haven't looked because I don't care that much, but if she is a teacher of any kind, I can see her distancing herself from that as well because that might have real-life consequences too.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oops! The response I just wrote was too a different comment. My bad! :D

[silverusagi]

I can't believe she had the audacity to openly admit to all that, and still think that she somehow comes off as the reasonable one telling a cute antidote and being able to laugh at herself

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I read the author's original Guardian article feeling like I was reading one of those 'villain's story' stories, like when the Big Bad Wolf explains that he didn't *really* mean to destroy the Three Pigs' house, all he wanted to do was borrow a cup of sugar, and he just sneezed a lot that day, etc.