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Carrie Goldberg, Jeannine Amber: Nobody's Victim (2020, Little, Brown Book Group Limited) 5 stars

Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one …

I'm working on an article about stalking and Counterman v. Colorado for SJSJ, so I have been reading broadly about DV, battered battered woman syndrome, and the typography of stalking for the last several days. It's heavy stuff, but also somewhat... relaxing? In a way? Maybe it's just because I don't have a hard deadline right now, but that's how I'm experiencing it.

I put on this audiobook while I was cleaning my living room, taking a break from the hard-a Academic reading. Goldberg's delivery is very emotional for a coached audio reader, which I dig. The content is really evocative, too. Lots of great examples of stalking behavior and (after a fashion) how the law has (reluctantly) helped people in distress (sometimes). Chapter 4 is about a brutal attack, so I might skip that, though.

Aside from the misaimed (IMO) critique of Section 230 as a concept rather than how it is applied, it's a really compelling book.