September 25?October 2, 2010
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
I have read 3 of the top 10 Banned Books of 2009, but only one from 2008. How about you?
OK, so some are award winners, some are required reading and some make me want to read them because “they” think the titles should be banned. Whoever “they” are. I’ve read 3 also.
Coincidentally, we start our study of the Bill of Rights tomorrow in Civics class.
My score is the same as yours – 3 in 2009 and 1 in 2008, but perhaps not the same books. P. just reread Catcher in the Rye – takes place in PA near where he comes from.
I’ve read 6 of the 10 from 2009, and 3 of the 2008 list.
So what was up with 2008? I finished one and started another for book club but wandered off. 2009 I have 5 (OK, so I gave up after book 3 of Twilight. I am still counting it!) I am old, so Catcher was inflicted on me.
I guess I have to go to the library and get the Chocolate War and that other book that keeps making the list. I’ll just ask the librarians for the books in the back room….
I think Twilight should be banned because it has spawned a commercial Leviathan, yet it is drek. (I had to look up Leviathan. All I was coming up with was Behemoth. Drek is a wonderful word I learned during my stint in a book store).