Remember that one-star review I left on The Worst Book Ever?

[Ginevra]

This is kind of funny, but presumably my review has now been boosted to the top of the negative reviews on that book on GoodReads, because every *day*, I get 10-20 “likes” on my review now. 
It’s somewhat funny to me that the book I panned the hardest, the book I thought was total garbage, the harshest review I have ever posted, is my most popular review ever. I guess that says something about the truth of negative bias. It’s also ironic, because I get email notifications when people interact with that review, so I get to see the name of that loathsome book dozens of times per day...
 

(To those who don’t know what I’m talking about, it was a book by Rachel Hollis which was super popular among a certain crowd a few years ago. I don’t want to link it directly but you would see what I mean if you looked it up.) 

[Annie G]

I read that book based solely on your review.g  Yeah, it was as bad as you said it would be. 
Do you think your review is ‘hot’ again because of her recent marital issues and housekeeper comments?

Edited May 4, 2021 by Annie G

[Spryte]

I think I know of the book, though not which review is yours. [shudder]

 

[fairfarmhand]

4 minutes ago, Spryte said:

I think I know of the book, though not which review is yours. [shudder]

 

The review is great. The book....never read it, but based on the title, I'd never touch it.

[saraha]

Can someone tell me? (Whiney voice) I can’t figure it oooooouuuuttt 😆 Pretty please?

Edited May 4, 2021 by saraha
Forgot to say please

[Katy]

I didn’t read that book because of you Quill.  I silently thanked you again with Hollis’s recent controversy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/style/rachel-hollis-tiktok-video.html

[Hyacinth]

I loved that review, Quill!

[HeartString]

2 hours ago, Annie G said:

I read that book based solely on your review.g  Yeah, it was as bad as you said it would be. 
Do you think your review is ‘hot’ again because of her recent marital issues and housekeeper comments?

I missed that.  What happened?  
 

[Katy]

31 minutes ago, HeartString said:

I missed that.  What happened?  
 

It’s in the New York Times article that I linked above, but basically someone accused her of exactly the sort of privilege Quill did, and Hollis doubled down and not only said she was privileged, she us privileged because she works harder than other people. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[GailV]

2 hours ago, Katy said:

I didn’t read that book because of you Quill.  I silently thanked you again with Hollis’s recent controversy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/style/rachel-hollis-tiktok-video.html

I thought of Quill when I read that article!

However, I must admit that I got the book out of the library and skimmed through it back in the heyday.  Yikes, what a waste of paper and ink.

[Annie G]

1 hour ago, HeartString said:

I missed that.  What happened?  
 

She and her husband split, which was kind of out of the blue since they were selling marriage advice. And then last month she made some comments about her housekeeper cleaning toilets and someone said Rachel is unrelatable and she went nuts. Rachel posted a video saying she works hard to be unrelatable.   Nothing shocking, just that she’s back in the news and I figured more people are googling her and might be reading reviews of her books. 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Annie G said:

I read that book based solely on your review.g  Yeah, it was as bad as you said it would be. 
Do you think your review is ‘hot’ again because of her recent marital issues and housekeeper comments?

It could be. A couple of people who have commented to my review mentioned the divorce. I didn’t know about the housekeeper thing.