Devourer of Books

…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 [...]