Thoughts about reading fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, new and old
Subject Tag: banned books
Banned Books Week
Written by Rebecca Reid on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Filed under: UncategorizedIt’s Banned Books Week!
I didn’t realize that until the week had already begun. As I’m in the middle of a million books right now (see Shelfari widget), I’m not going to start reading another until I finish something!
What Are Banned Books? (Do I Favor Book Banning?)
Written by Rebecca Reid on Monday, September 22, 2008 Filed under: Fiction, Pondering ReadingA recent blogging discussion has prompted me to ask the question: What is book banning? I’ve never thought it right to ban a book, but since I’ve recently been accused of doing just that, I thought I’d ask all of you what you think. Do I actually favor book banning? I’m stumped here.
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Stuart Little Was a Banned Book
Written by Rebecca Reid on Thursday, July 17, 2008 Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Essays/ArticlesThe New Yorker has an interesting article this week about the development of literature for children and E.B. White’s writing of Stuart Little. Did you know that after it was published in 1945, Stuart Little was banned by many libraries? I haven’t read Stuart Little since I was a child, but I hadn’t realized that [...]
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From October 2008-July 2009, I'm hosting the Really Old Classics Challenge.
Also, as an ongoing personal challenge, I'm reading all the works on the How to Read and Why reading list compiled by Harold Bloom. I'd love for you to either join me in this challenge or to follow along with me as I try to learn to read well.
