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~~~~Banned Books Week~~~~ ****September 22−28, 2013**** Check out the ALA webpage! Banned books represent something terribly wrong with the [...]
September 21, 2013
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Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book. Fahrenheit 451; Ray Bradbury “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see [...]
November 18, 2012
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Bonus post for the last day! This one isn’t on the ALA list that I saw, but it has been banned, and it’s a favorite of mine. [...]
October 6, 2012
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Recommendation 4: Catch-22; Joseph Heller A catch-22 boils down to: you can’t win. In the case of the main character of Catch-22, you [...]
October 5, 2012
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Recommendation 3: 1984; George Orwell This is a book about censorship and monitoring. Even if you haven’t read it, you’ll probably [...]
October 3, 2012
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Recommendation 2: Brave New World; Aldous Huxley This one’s a classic, which presents a version of the future that warns us to watch what [...]
October 1, 2012
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For banned book week, I’m doing five mini-reviews of my favorites off the ALA (American Library Association) list. I don’t really do [...]
September 30, 2012
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Banned Book Week 2012:September 30 – October 6. Go read a banned book! (The link has a pretty long list, you should be able to find [...]
September 29, 2012
