. . . And I got a one star review

Earlier this week I got a one star review. Yeah, I was bummed out a bit. How could this happen to someone as wonderful as me about a book as wonderful as that? I need to work through this (chocolate and pizza  usually helps but not at the same time). What a horrible disaster. What worse could happen?

Well. . . .

In Afghanistan, only 12 percent of adult women can read and write

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. . . And I got a one-star review

In Turkmenistan the state closed all libraries and expelled foreign journalists

. . . And I got a one-star review

In Eretria 15 journalists have been jailed and held in secret detention centers

. . . And I got a one-star review

Libyan opposition writer Abdel Razek al-Mansouri  was jailed and Dayf al-Ghazal al-Shuhaibi was murdered

. . . And I got a one-star review

Seventy-Seven Journalists were killed while reporting the news last year

. . . And I got a one-star review

Watchman Nee had to smuggle his books out of a Chinese Prision

. . . And I got a one-star review

Dietrich Bonhoeffer taught a seminary "on the run" during WWII in Nazi Germany and wrote his last book while in jail awaiting his execution.

. . . And I got a one-star review

Tyndale, John Bunyan, Martin Luther King, The Apostle Paul and thousands of other were imprisoned and killed because they put pen to paper and dared to write

. . . And I got a one-star review

. . . And I got a one-star review

Writing is not safe. It was never intended to be.