I touch on a touchy subject

In the almost-one-year since I joined Goodreads, the topic of authors reviewing books there has come up again and again. I haven't been in on most of the conversations, and I'm not going to link to them (lest I draw the Eye of Sauron toward myself), but the upshot is usually something like this: authors should not post negative reviews on Goodreads because it will come back and bite them in the butt someday.

If you can't say something nice, in other words, say NOTHING.

This morning I read a...