ReadBannedBooks

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

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Ana on the Edge

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Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea

tpixie I agree! It would be interesting to see what you think of them. I was saddened to hear that Sally Rooney and James Percival ( and others) have encouraged banning books by Jewish authors, and at least Sally Rooney is not allowing her books to be translated into Hebrew. I was quite surprised that authors would encourage banning of books! 5d

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Suet624 @tpixie what??? I had no idea. 5d

tpixie @Suet624 yes! I was quite surprised by this from authors themselves! (edited) 5d

BkClubCare @tpixie @Suet624 - I had to go find out and . . . Well. Huh. I am still processing this. 😑 2d

tpixie @BkClubCare 🌻🌻🌻🥺🌻🌻🌻 2d

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Bookwomble

Usher II | Ray Bradbury

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#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 ⬇️

Bookwomble ... agents who have followed him to Mars by recreating Poe's terrible dooms, which they'd know to avoid had they ever read any of the books they burned. I smiled through this one with a grisly bibliophilic homicidal glee! 💀
How sad Ray would be to see the contemporary relevance of his 75 year-old wish-fulfillment fantasy.
#ReadBannedBooks #UniteAgainstBookBans 2w

AnishaInkspill this looks interesting and will look into it, I'm really enjoying reading MartianC 7d

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Bookwomble

Usher II | Ray Bradbury

"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 ⬇️

Bookwomble ... detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves."
- Ray Bradbury, "Usher II", a Martian Chronicle ?
#ClassicLSFBC #ReadBannedBooks 2w

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Littlewolf1

Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Malinda Lo

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.

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Littlewolf1

Banned Books | DK

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

shortsarahrose I enjoyed this sapphic YA historical fiction

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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Littlewolf1 @shortsarahrose perfect… 1st one on the list… thank you 😊 2mo

kspenmoll

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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Littlewolf1 @kspenmoll great, adding to the list. Thank you 🙏🏻 2mo

LiteraryinPA I recommend

Gender Queer: A Memoir

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LiteraryinPA Also if you haven't read it

Melissa (Formerly Published as George)

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Littlewolf1 @LiteraryinPA i have not read them so they will be March and April read 2mo

BookmarkTavern

Milk and Honey

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Littlewolf1 @BookmarkTavern I loved Milk and Honey, but Ive already read it. Could you choose another one for me. 2mo

BookmarkTavern Hmm…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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BookmarkTavern Or

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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BookmarkTavern Also!

Parable of the Sower

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Littlewolf1 @BookmarkTavern i have read Cage Bird but not the other two… i will add them both to my list. Thank you 😊 2mo

BookmarkTavern I look forward to seeing your list! 2mo

Littlewolf1 @BookmarkTavern me too… i know have six more books to go. 2mo

CatLass007 Are you tagging people for a discussion? Because if so, please add me to your tag list. And here‘s my suggestion for your list. There are several books with the same name but this is the one by SE Hinton.

The Outsiders

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AnnCrystal

Welcome to Dead House | R. L. Stine

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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AnnCrystal While I don\\\'t mind a content warning on a book, to outright ban is too extreme and unacceptable!

Without these books I would have never began my book journey, which led me to the understanding that I too can become a storyteller and see my own work in print.

The power of ink infused pages released into the world 🪄✍️💼📄🌬️📃💫📚🙏💝.
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AnnCrystal @dabbe
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#indefenseofbooks

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KadaGul I was so hyped about reading every single Goosebumps book as soon as it dropped. I was always eagerly waiting for the next one to come out. I had no idea it was banned at the time. I guess I was living on the edge back in grade school. (edited) 4mo

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dabbe #goosebumpsforever 🧡🤎💛 4mo

AnnCrystal I love that 📚😎👍💝 @KadaGul excellent stories. Loved the TV show too 📚📺💝 4mo

AnnCrystal @dabbe 💕📚📺👏😊👍💝. 4mo

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SomedayAlmost

The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas

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

The_Book_Ninja 💯 4mo

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood

Read a banned book! Banned book week is September 22-28!

I grabbed a few from my shelves and my favorite banned book bookmark! 📚❤️

Show us some of your banned books! 📚 📚

#ReadBannedBooks
#BannedBooks

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AnnCrystal Had never known that the Ulysses by James Joyce had been banned! 🧐😳📚. (edited) 4mo

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