…to try to ban a book the DAY before Banned Books Week starts?
A district official in my very own old school district in California decided last Friday that Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series was not appropriate for junior high and ordered all copies of her books in any of the 12 junior highs in the district [...]
Evidently I timed my drive into work this morning JUST right, because the last full story I heard on NPR (via Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ - woohoo!) was about Banned Books Week.
The whole thing was fascinating, but what really caught my ears was a statement made by Judith Krug of the American Library Association:
“They’re not [...]
From Marie at Boston Bibliophile: For this week’s Tuesday Thingers, I’ve copied the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read. Bold what you’ve read, and italicize what you have in your LT library.
I will also be starring the books I’m featuring this week.
1. [...]
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Original publication date: 1939
This week is banned books week in the United States. All week I will be highlighting banned, challenged, and censored books I own and have read.
Publisher description:
One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck’s controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America [...]
Banned Books Week started yesterday in the United States and runs through next Saturday.
To celebrate my freedom to read banned and challenged books, I am posting a spotlight of a book that has been banned or challenged in the United States every day of Banned Books Week at 2 pm. Each is a book that [...]
The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week starts in the U.S. this Saturday, September 27th and runs through Saturday, October 4th.
I have been working on a new Banned Books Library on LibraryThing. Check it out if you would like to see list of many of the books challenged, banned, and censored throughout the world. You [...]
I reviewed (and really enjoyed!) Doug Dorst’s “Alive in Necropolis” in June. I’m sure many of you have been eagerly awaiting the day it would be released.
Well, wait no longer! Today is the day!
Read my review | Buy this book on Amazon
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SoManyPreciousBooksSoLittleTime is hosting an ARC reading challenge. I’ve never actually participated in a blog challenge before and I have a bunch of ARCs that need to be read, so I might as well participate!
The challenge:
1-3 ARCs, pick at least one to read and review
4-6 ARCs, pick two to read and review
7-9 ARCs, pick 3
10+ [...]
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Oksuta
This was my second time reading “When the Emperor Was Divine,” and I found it just as moving as my first time.
“When the Emperor Was Divine” is the haunting story of a Japanese-American family from Berkeley during World War II. The father is taken from their house [...]
“Springtime on Mars: Short Stories” by Susan Woodring
I received “Springtime on Mars” as part of a blog tour for Susan Woodring. This book of short stories was released at the end of February by Press 53, a small, independent press whose goal is to showcase exemplary literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction and whose website [...]
