A review by itsmytuberculosis
If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say by Leila Sales

5.0

This book came to me in a time in my life where I too felt like my life was falling apart and that there wasn't a meaning to anything. I wasn't publicly shamed, but it was comforting to read and see how each of the members of the improvement group dealt with their own short comings. I loved the way she ended up apologizing in the end, and I think Sales makes some really good point about what it means to be online - and how disingenuous it is.

I was also stunned to find that this book was inspired by Jon Ronson's book, "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", which was one of the books I was reading at the same time. I can see the inspiration from the true events depicted in the characterization in Sales' book.