![]() The teenager had written a glowing review of a book Blythe hated, obliquely referencing Blythe's hatred for it: "Dear Haters," the review read. "Blythe was involved in an attack on a 14-year-old girl back in May 2012," Parker said. She claims, for example, to have heard that her evil book blogger stalked a 14 year old: Her article also traffics in a great deal of what can only be called rank gossip. I dropped the book on the step and walked away. The curtains were drawn, but I could see a figure silhouetted in one window, looking at me. The stupid happiness book grew sweaty in my hands. I started to feel hot and claustrophobic. Was it the same one? The doorbell had been torn off, and up close the garden was overgrown. A dog barked and I thought of Blythe's Instagram Pomeranian. On Friday, The Guardian posted a piece by author Kathleen Hale, a well-connected young author who… Most of what Hale describes is outright stalking: finding a real name, a real address, getting in a real car and driving to that place to confront a real person: Author Stalks Anonymous Blogger Who Gave Her a 1-Star Review Jezebel has already covered much of what's creepy and/or questionable in Hale's story. The saga ends in a trip to the reviewer's house. The piece tracked, in painstaking detail, her obsession with a Goodreads reviewer who'd given her novel only one star accompanied by snarky review. ![]() Over the weekend, a YA novelist named Kathleen Hale published a piece in The Guardian that sent up a social media mushroom cloud.
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