the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

banned books

  • banned book friday #11 (a little late) – harper lee and toni morrison.

    This week’s Banned Book Friday post is a bit behind – like most everything has been with my pneumonia days – but here we are now, with both of this week’s books rereads from my school days – Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. First, I remember reading Morrison’s Song… Read more

  • banned book friday #10 – truman capote week.

    This week, as I’ve been ill and also reading for some other projects I’m stoked about, my one banned book is Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood – and, oh my word, do I have thoughts. This work, called a non-fiction novel, the first of its kind, tells the agonizing story of the murders of Herb, Bonnie,… Read more

  • banned book friday #9 – the remaining tolkien and more vonnegut, all good things this week.

    This week’s Banned Book reading has been pleasurable all around. First, I finished J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy with The Two Towers and The Return of the King. I know I’m repeating myself from last week but this series is one I wish everyone would read: if you haven’t read LOTR, please consider adding it… Read more

  • banned book friday #8 – some faulkner and the beginnings of lotr.

    This has been an extra puny week – even by my usual spoonie standards – but I have some happy things to share this Banned Books Friday. In what will hopefully be a two post day, first, I’ll pass along the report on this week’s banned book reading. Then, later this evening, I plan to… Read more

  • banned books friday #5 – two enjoyable reads.

    This week, for our Banned Books Friday report – actually being written on Friday, stop the presses 😉 – I revisited two books on our list that I read when I was much younger – Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Though they are completely different – and we… Read more

  • banned book friday #4 – yet again, on a monday.

    The past week has been filled with my wonderful husband’s birthday, book club with my favorite ladies, and an overdue day trip to visit our sweet family at the lake. It was such a lovely week – though having a busy one during a flare has left me bone tired I must say. All is… Read more

  • banned book friday #3 – with a few extra sick days taken. so it goes. . .

    Our Banned Books Friday report this week is coming late Easter Sunday night, owing to much sickly time as well as some busy time these past few days. However, even if a somewhat fluid concept of “Friday” is required to be a friend of the blog, our banned book report will be done every week… Read more

  • our week two banned book friday report (a little late on a sick day)

    Last week, I started my project of reading through our banned book list – including the rereads of classics that I haven’t encountered since my school days – to report on them as I make way through the list. (I’m reporting a bit late today – early Saturday morning – as this infernal flare had… Read more

  • “i’m with the banned” fridays.

    In keeping with the theme of this week, another major issue arose last night in Prattville, Alabama – just outside our state capitol city of Montgomery – with a library board that has absolutely run amok, not only attempting to ban books but also firing the library director that dared defy them as well as… Read more

  • in response to library censorship and “burn the freaking books”

    On Thursday, an article was posted on al.com that related to the ongoing debate in my home state, Alabama, around groups that are trying – often successfully – to remove books they find morally objectionable from public libraries – essentially creating their own banned books list – versus everyone who believes that these groups don’t… Read more