There's been rather a to-do at Twitter for the past week or two. It's over the latest attempts to censor Laurie Halse Anderson's book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_(novel)">Speak</a>. This is because the Young Adult book is about a victim of rape. Some parents feel that their children shouldn't be reading that sort of thing.
So all sorts of people the world over have been adding the hashtag #SpeakLoudly to related posts in a show of support for Anderson and other authors whose books show up frequently in Banned Book list.
Makes me want to read To Kill A Mockingbird again. But not The Catcher in the Rye. Ick.
Looking at the classic list, it amazes me that some of these are challenged books. Many were assigned reading when I was in school and I read lots of others for book reports. I read The Catcher in the Rye for a book report knowing people thought it was naughty, but I really did not care for it.
I wouldn't have minded if they banned Lord of the Flies, I didn't like that one either.
I'm surprised at the lack of Heinlein on this list...
Are you reading anything special for Banned Books Week?
- 27/09/2010 07:31:32 PM
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The concept remains very strange to me.
- 27/09/2010 09:17:53 PM
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Indeed.
- 27/09/2010 11:44:00 PM
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Re: Indeed.
- 28/09/2010 12:20:24 AM
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My mother tried to keep me from reading certain books at a young age
- 28/09/2010 12:57:05 AM
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Let's read Mein Kampf while we're at it! *NM*
- 27/09/2010 11:37:39 PM
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My Oma has a 1930s copy of Mein Kampf which is bound with pages from the Bible.
- 27/09/2010 11:42:24 PM
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*NM*
I didn't know about it.
- 28/09/2010 02:38:30 AM
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Re: I'm using my "I read books for me and not for my principles" card.
- 29/09/2010 09:03:32 PM
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