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I almost forgot it‘s Freedom to Read week here in Canadia, but I managed to find this on my TBR. I‘m 100 pages in and not much has happened, but it‘s pretty funny and sharp. Don‘t forget to #readbannedbooks!

Happy Black History month. For the people in the back, Happy Black History month. I will be celebrating ALL month. Just like AAPI, Women, Native American, Pride, Disability, and any other marginalized group!!! Check out black authors, biographies, fiction, graphic novels, critical race theory, or cookbooks. Don‘t forget to keep reading banned books!!!! #blm #readbannedbooks #black365 #resist

This is one of my favorite books 📚

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I requested all three of these books because a friend told me that an Ohio teacher has been reprimanded for offering these to her students. I don‘t know all the details but I do know and fully believe in allowing books be available to readers. Letting my library know these books are valued. #readbannedbooks #heatedblanket #bringit #lfg

#ClassicLSFBC
Usher II is one of Bradbury's invectives against censorship, written in 1949, obliquely referencing McCarthyism, and directly referencing book bans and book burnings, even if set in his own future.
It's hard not to see MC William Stendhal as other than an authorial avatar, driven mad by the destruction of his 50,000 book library at the hands of investigators of the Moral Climate crusade, he plots his revenge upon the repressive ⬇️

"How could I expect you to know Mr. Poe? He died a long while ago, before Lincoln. All of his books were burned in the Great Fire...He and Lovecraft and Hawthorne and Ambrose Bierce and all the tales of terror and fantasy and horror and, for that matter, tales of the future were burned. Heartlessly. They passed a law. Oh, it started very small. In 1950 and '60 it was a grain of sand. They began by controlling books of cartoons and then ⬇️

So here are the books for my January #ReadBannedBooks and my #FriendsPick challenge. I‘m excited to get the chance to experience books that have been banned for various reasons. But I think my favorite thing about this challenge is reading what my friends pick for me. All of them are so very different and I get to experience new styles of writing. Sometimes it even gets me out of my comfort zone, which I think is good.

Setting up my challenges for next year, and I‘ve decided to do 12 months of banned books instead of 12 months of classics for 2025. Send me your suggestions and I will choose the first 12 that I have not read. #ReadBannedBooks

These are random picks from my bookshelf. Some are from my youth, and some are newer because I'm always adding on to my collection when I can.

I could not believe and was sad that Goosebumps books would be on the ban list!

It was stories like these that compelled me to read books when I was a kid. Author's like Avi, Christopher Pike, Cate Tiernan, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Garth Nix...and yes, R.L. Stine.

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Added banned books to my LFL today. Bottom line: book banning is a threat to democracy. #bannedbooksweek #readbannedbooks #lfl