Going though your reviews and publicly mocking people for engaging in extremely normal behaviour is, however, a very bad look. That’s a valid thing to be frustrated about. In this tweet, Hough seems to be expressing frustration that some people on Goodreads are giving her book a 4 star rating even though they clearly liked it enough to give it 5 stars. Since a lot of people get their book recommendations from Goodreads, this could affect sales. From an author’s perspective, this is probably really frustrating, because it means that the book’s rating doesn’t reflect its quality. For some, every good book gets 5 stars for others, a book has to be life-changing to deserve a full 5 stars. This problem is compounded by the fact that everyone on the website has different criteria when rating books. This is kind of annoying, because every user’s rating goes toward the book’s average rating, so if everyone is giving a book 4.5 stars but entering it as 4 stars, the average rating of the book will only be informed by those 4 star ratings. Because of this, it’s quite common for people to, say, rate a book 4 stars, and then clarify in the review that they actually meant 4.5 stars. Goodreads doesn’t allow half star ratings, which is something a lot of users have been annoyed about for a long time. This is a screenshot from Goodreads, which is a website where users can track their reading, rate and review books, and comment on each other’s reviews. A bit of context for anyone who might be confused. Lauren Hough’s troubles began on April 16th, when she tweeted this:Īlright. I will not be passing judgement on her book or on her as a person, because neither of those things are relevant to this particular event. I will state right off the bat that I have not read this book, and, like many people who watched this situation unfold, I had not heard of Lauren Hough until this controversy. Lauren Hough is the author of a collection of personal essays titled Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, which was published on April 13th of this year. The whole saga was a prime example of a white woman excusing her own problematic behaviour by hiding behind the fact that she’s a woman. And I’m not even surprised it got such wide reach. But Lauren Hough’s epic fall from grace was so dramatic that I was seeing it all over my timeline yesterday, even from people not in the book community. Now, Book Twitter drama, fascinating though it always is, rarely reaches beyond the limits of the community itself. I don’t know if Lauren Hough was Twitter’s main character yesterday, but I know that she was Book Twitter’s main character. The “main character of the day” is now as much as part of Twitter’s vernacular as “ milkshake duck” and “ tarantula dick.” It is common knowledge that, every day, without fail, one person messes up so badly that their mistake is the only thing Twitter can talk about.
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