False Modesty

I recently got a message from Goodreads; someone liked a review I had posted there. Curious, I was anxious to discover the title of the book for which it had been written. It turns out that the reviewed book was one of my own (Can It!: The Perils and Pleasures of Preserving Foods)! My Goodreads review was very short:

I don’t rate my own books.

I suspect t…