I don’t feel guilty about this, and Arnott gets plenty of reviews anyway, but (predating the aggrieved Tweet) I had put Limberlost on the bedside table as soon as I bought it, so that it would be reviewed ‘in a timely manner’ as they say.
I had bought Arnott’s previous novel The Rain Heron ( see my review) as soon as it was published in 2020, but didn’t get round to reading and reviewing it until 2022. Some of my as-yet-unread purchases go back many years, a decade or more. This blog is littered with reviews of books that I bought on release but weren’t reviewed immediately. I thought of this exchange when I picked up Robbie Arnott’s new novel to read yesterday. There were responses that could have been predicted: “Guessing your books are never going to be reviewed by anyone ever after this own goal” “This is the kind of comment that makes me put an author on my “never” list” and (a fine example of keyboard warrior overreach, underlining mine) “You annoyed the entire reviewing community”.
Well, while I have sympathy for the frustration of authors whose books for one reason or another don’t get reviews, it was very silly of him because of course all her followers piled on. And you do realise that I review as a hobby. Her reply was: “This is a book I bought myself. “You are reviewing books from 2008 but are too busy to review new books” he tweeted to a bookblogger. The tweeter, whose username is the title of a book he wrote, was peeved. An aggrieved Tweet piqued my interest the other day.
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