If my research is correct, one of the less exciting prospects of becoming a self-published author is that one must be positive about everything. Everything. So if I don’t care for a book, or a movie, or a certain brand of toothpaste, I will no longer be able to publicly declare so. It will make me look like Debbie Downer, and no one will be interested in anything else I have to say (or so the theory goes).

Which essentially means that the review posts that have been my bread and butter for the p...