banned books
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This week’s Banned Books Friday – very early Monday morning as my left hip is still completely out with a CRPS flare I cannot contain so my schedule is a bit wonky – is James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. For me, this was another classic reread from my high school days… Read more
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‘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… Read more
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On our banned books list, I put off Jack London’s The Call of the Wild for some time, as I remember it well from when I was a child. Still, it was time. First, a *truly* brief summary – to explain why I’m such a weenie about this book 😉 If you aren’t familiar with The Call… Read more
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I am so very very off schedule – but this week’s late banned book Friday is two novels I would consider recent classics, frequently read in high school AP classes – both familiar to me – but, having read them many years ago, they were a difficult revisit – as they are intended to be.… Read more
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This week’s banned book is Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Published in 1962 – during the period when there was a great push to deinstitutionalize mental health (for better or worse) – Kesey’s novel – and the film adaptation that won many awards and has stood the test of time – paints a… Read more
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I have been waiting to update on my state’s library issues because there has been so much confusion – and very little clarity – since I last wrote. However, I will mention that there was a library board unjustly unseated in the next county over from us, Shelby County, a few weeks ago, in a… Read more
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I ended up shifting my plans for this week’s Banned Books – sometimes Libby and the library have a way of deciding the order of things 😉 – after I realized that I needed to wrap up my Papa Hemingway reading and turn in my second book of his remaining novels, lest I anger the… Read more
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It’s a late Banned Book Friday – on Sunday – this week because it has taken me a bit to sort myself on this one. This week’s Banned Book is Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. I’ll begin by saying I wasn’t looking forward to this book but I did try *really* hard to make it… Read more
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I’m working on another post I hope to have up soon – Sasquatch related 🙂 – but I realized it is Banned Books Friday and I am actually going to make it on time this week. 😉 As I’ve been reading for a few different projects and it’s been the week from Hale, I only… Read more
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This week, I have several books to discuss, one of them from our banned books project and the others just several good ones I haven’t gotten a chance to share. First, for this week’s banned book – my plan was to read Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, but, in the chaos of my plague and… Read more
