Line I'll likely never use in a review

"The author clearly invested a lot of time and effort in this work; anyone who encouraged him/her in this process, therefore, is the literary equivalent of Bernie Madoff."

And yeah, after a streak of six straight good books between my YA and SF/F/H gigs, I guess I was due for a dud.

Hey, remember when homosexuality was considered a mental illness?

It still is, in Poland.

The best, "well, it's not our fault" moment from the school administrators pretending that there's nothing to see here?

"We tell our experts to pay particular attention to any racial, sexual or religious discrimination before approving a textbook and in this case they found no such issues."

Yeah, sure. Maybe you need experts who aren't, you know, bigoted assholes.

(Note: I'm assuming all quotations in the article are translated, so this post might be amended if I learn that the quote's not accurate.)