‘Tis Banned Books Friday, everyone. ❤

This has been an incredibly difficult week, so I have not done any reading for our banned books project – though I have read a couple of other good books I plan to share with y’all soon – and I’ve also just started James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain from our list for next week.

That said, today I’m going to share the one book I have flagged on our list that I have read in my life but will absolutely *not* be rereading.

The summer after I finished the 5th grade – yes, 5th grade – I read Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind *at the beach* – as I was a baby geek, even then. 😉

At the time, I read those 960 pages for good reason.

My precious Grandmother Humphries, my dear Grandmother’s mother, who was born in 1900 (so it was blessing indeed that I grew up spending time with her), loved the story, and I wanted to read it for her so we could talk about it when I visited her home with my grandparents every Saturday.

It was 100% worth it.

However, as most of you are familiar with Gone with the Wind in some format – likely the film – you’ll understand why I am not now keen to revisit nearly 1,000 pages of an antebellum soap opera-esque drama.

Once was more than enough. 😉

Of course, as with all of our banned books, if you wish to read it now, it is absolutely your right to do so.

That is always the point.

Wishing you all a great weekend and happy reading.

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

Lolita – Vladmir Nabokov

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

LOTR – The Fellowship of The Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Song of Soloman – Toni Morrison

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell