Banned Books

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Loved taking this quiz for Banned Books Week! Thanks, @dabbe I try to read several banned books each year and my score reflects that :) I think that supporting the Freedom to Read is one of the most important things we can do for our democracy, community, and society at large. Check you score here: https://www.listchallenges.com/alas-most-frequently-challenged-books-1990-2020 #freedom #literacy

dabbe Well done and said! 👏🏻🤩👍🏻 1mo

kspenmoll Yay you!!! 1mo

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GatheringBooks

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

#SchoolSpirit Day 25: my #Homework (self-imposed) is to read as much banned books as possible. 📚📚📚📚

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo

BookmarkTavern Love this! 1mo

Hooked_on_books Love this pic! 1mo

Eggs Great graphic👏🏻👏🏻 1mo

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GypsyKat

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Not really a book post, but I thought y‘all might appreciate my new shirt. 🥰🌈

Cortg I love it! 🥰 5mo

GypsyKat @Cortg Thank you! I do, too! 🥰 5mo

JenReadsAlot Love it! 5mo

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dabbe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5mo

TheBookgeekFrau Love it!! 💕 5mo

Lauranahe I love it!! 🏳️‍🌈 5mo

LeahBergen Love it! 5mo

AmyG Oh hi! Hope you are soing well. Love the t-shirt beautiful lady! 5mo

CarolynM Brilliant! 5mo

TieDyeDude 👌 😻 ✨ 5mo

GypsyKat @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau @Lauranahe @LeahBergen @AmyG @CarolynM @TieDyeDude Thanks, everyone! 🥰🥰🥰 3mo

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Smrloomis

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

“Child-free libraries” is a terrifying thought! https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/

wanderinglynn I could understand having child-only libraries (i.e., a library dedicated to children‘s literature & literacy), but a child free library? That‘s ridiculous. 5mo

Smrloomis @wanderinglynn yeah it‘s like child free playgrounds… it‘s an awful thought. 5mo

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wanderinglynn

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Happy Banned Books Week! 🎉

Taking a break from Spooktober puzzles to celebrate Banned Books Week! (Or maybe this is the scariest puzzle of all.)

Banned Books Bibliophile, 500 pieces, art by Jane Mount, by Chronicle Books which is donating a percentage of the proceeds to PEN America. And some of the banned books that I own.

#bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek

Michreader3 The Hunger Games is banned? I did not know that. Will be one of my most loved books always 13mo

KaylasReadingNook Yes! Glad you‘re taking the week as well to ‘celebrate‘ 😄 13mo

KaylasReadingNook @Michreader3 Sadly yes it‘s banned, but it is such a wonderful series! Are you excited for the upcoming movie? 😄 13mo

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wanderinglynn @Michreader3 yes, it has been on the frequently challenged top 10 list a few years: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10/archive 13mo

Michreader3 @KaylasReadingNook I‘m so excited!! Cant wait. Which movie was your favorite? 13mo

KaylasReadingNook @Michreader3 same!! Oh goodness probably the first one because it was just the original idea of the games and the challenging of the capital 😂 what about you?? 13mo

Michreader3 @KaylasReadingNook Yes I love that one, for me though probably Catching Fire! I loved the plot twist of them getting thrown back into the games and I feel like it really set the whole rebellion in motion 13mo

KaylasReadingNook @Michreader3 oh yes I understand that! It was such a catalyst, especially when they had to shut down the interviews because the tributes banned together to try and stop the games. It was a unique twist! 13mo

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Kshakal

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Shout it from the rooftops… let freedom read!!!

AnnCrystal 👏Epic 🤩❕. 13mo

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Kshakal

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Yes!!! 👏👏👏👏

Ruthiella 👏👏👏 14mo

dabbe Wondering if I should email this to my district's school board. 🤔🤩😃 14mo

Meshell1313 Yesssss 👏🏻 14mo

AnnCrystal 👍📚🤩! 14mo

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Kshakal

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

We need more of this!! Hats off to you Brooklyn Public Library!

squirrelbrain ❤️❤️❤️ 1y

Ruthiella 👍👍👍 1y

MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 1y

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Kshakal

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Yes!!

kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻 2y

hya Yess👏 2y

Gissy Yes! 2y

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Kshakal

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Yes!!!

KateReadsYA It's like who is even in charge of this haha and what an awful job to have!!!!! 3y

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Leftcoastzen

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

This is no longer just a few upset parents at a school board meeting, it‘s bankrolled & has a bad agenda .there was also a good New York Times article about 15 hours ago. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/us-conservatives-campaign-books-...

AmyG We are in a fight against authoritarianism in this country. It‘s frightening. 3y

Karisa What the heck?! Just when you think book banning is a thing of the past and our country is inching forward on the whole. May all those titles get a huge boost in sales from the extra notice! 3y

Booksarelifeaddict That‘s ridiculous 3y

Leftcoastzen @AmyG So true . I never thought it would be like this , I always wanted to believe we were going for more democracy, more inclusion.Like Dr.King & John Lewis said. 3y

Branwen This makes me want to scream! 😣 3y

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CindyMyLifeIsLit

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

It‘s Banned Books Week! Let‘s celebrate our intellectual freedom and read a book that someone, at some point, tried to censor! #ReadBannedBooks #FreedomtoRead

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GinaKButler

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Image from @SweetSequels on IG. #ireadbannedbooks

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JulAnna

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Banned books week is September 27th through October 3rd this year. I think I will use this bookmark this week to celebrate my freedom to read! 🤓

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DGRachel

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

I love banned books week. This year, it‘s from Sept 27-Oct 3. My mom never censored what I read, and I find the reasons for books being challenged/banned completely ridiculous. I‘m celebrating this year by rereading Lord of the Flies, since I bought a copy with a great cover, rereading my favorite Judy Blume novel, Tiger Eyes, and throwing in a couple of lighter graphic novels, the first Captain Underpants and Drama. 😍 #bannedbooksweek

GingerAntics I‘m going to finally read The Handmaid‘s Tale and I think I‘m going to try out And Tango Makes Three. The only reviewer who wrote anything on Apple Books gave it 5 stars but though two boy penguins “in love” was inappropriate. I guess a boy and a girl penguin “in love” is inappropriate, too. 🙄 4y

DGRachel @GingerAntics Aww, And Tango Makes Three looks adorable. I think I may have to add that one to my list, too! 4y

Sweetkokoro Captain Underpants is a banned book? Also am I just completely out of the loop, when did Lord of the Flies become a banned book? I read that in highschool for class and even had to do a presentation on it, keep in mind that was at least 10 years ago (maybe a little more I was 17) 4y

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cathysaid How in the name of all that is holy did Captain Underpants land on the banned books list? I just can‘t. 4y

wanderinglynn I also love Banned Books Week! 👍🏻🙌🏻❤️📚 And I was also lucky that my parents never censored what I could read. 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @cathysaid @Sweetkokoro was challenged for encouraging disobedience to parents. My great nephew reads them. I have NEVER told his very churchy parents this. 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig Every year when Top 10 List is announced I try and read any that I haven't read. This year I've read Tango, Prince & Knight (which I adored)and Handmaid. All I have left is

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Crinoline_Laphroaig @GingerAntics have you read

Prince & Knight

Crinoline_Laphroaig I too love Banned Books Week. My reason is because I was raised in a Cult. Obviously I left. It gives great joy to read books #mymotherwouldnotapprove 4y

DGRachel @Sweetkokoro @cathysaid as for Captain Underpants, @Crinoline_Laphroaig covered that. Lord of the Flies is #68 on the Top 100 most challenged/banned books between 1990-1999. I imagine it was for graphic violence. I can‘t remember if it was assigned reading in 10th or 11th grade. Let‘s just say more than 25 years ago. (Holy cow, when did I get that old 😩😩). 4y

Sweetkokoro @DGRachel I read Lord of the Flies in 2006 (my senior year) for highschool, it was 1 of 10 required reading books we got to chose from for an assignment. This is so baffling to me. And the captain underpants reason feels silly to me haha. 4y

Sweetkokoro @Crinoline_Laphroaig Thanks for the info, that honestly sounds like a really silly reason to “ban” or “challenge” a book. 4y

DGRachel @Sweetkokoro Honestly, when I read through the reasons, I find almost all of them to be completely ridiculous and some of them offensive (like ones that object to anything other than “Christian” content, or content that was critical of Christianity). One of the Sherlock Holmes stories was challenged because it portrayed Mormons in a negative light. 🙄 (edited) 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @DGRachel I just did the math. 36 years. Lord of the Flies was assigned reading Senior year. in 1984 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @DGRachel ^ 😬 4y

GingerAntics Lord of the Flies is such a good book. Let me guess, it was challenged/banned because kids in charge is bad? 🙄 Some people are just ridiculous. 4y

GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig you don‘t happen to be a Laphroig fan, do you? 😏 4y

GingerAntics @DGRachel doesn‘t it? The art looks adorable and gee, an egg with no parents finding parents to love it. What a horrible message for children. 🙄 We‘d sure hate kids to know there are loving people (or penguins) in the world. 4y

GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig oh wow, so glad you got out of the cult and join the book lovers. I would imagine most cults wouldn‘t want children to read as it might make them think for themselves. 4y

GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig I haven‘t, but I saw it on the top 10 banned books for 2019 and I think I‘m going to have to read it. 4y

DGRachel @GingerAntics according to the ALA website LOTF has been challenged for being “demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal”, for “excessive violence and bad language”, and also “because of profanity, lurid passages about sex, and statements defamatory to minorities, God, women, and the disabled”. 4y

GingerAntics @DGRachel 🤦🏼‍♀️ I seriously don‘t understand anything banned for religious reasons. If you don‘t like it, don‘t read it, but don‘t stop others from reading it if they want. Good grief. So basically the people who want LOTF banned also wants school aged boys minds/imaginations banned and science to be banned. Go figure. Smh 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @GingerAntics I do love my Laphroaig. 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @GingerAntics oh there was nothing worse than thinking for yourself and asking why. 4y

GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig ah, Laphroaig is my favourite. 🥃 4y

GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig sounds like the last church I belonged to. I can‘t imagine how much worse it would be in a cult. 4y

Crinoline_Laphroaig @GingerAntics a lot of people would say what I grew up in was just a religion. In fact only in the last few years have I started calling it a Cult. It had uneducated men demanding women be submissive, discouraging education, or making friends outside the church. You were supposed to blindly follow no questions asked. If you didn't you were shunned. So in my mind that makes it a cult. Books were my first rebellion. 4y

GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig yeah, that sounds like a cult to me. It almost sounds Amish or Mennonite. The way some (many?) of these groups treat children gets me, too. I just don‘t get how people can do that sort of thing to their own child, or children in general. Ugh. My last church was going in that direction. The pastor would contradict himself and everyone would just go with it and I needed to “pray more” when I pointed it out. 🙄 4y

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britt_brooke

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Good advice! Worn out shirt, but I still love it. 📚🧠 #readbannedbooks

Copwithabook Love it!! 4y

britt_brooke @Copwithabook Thanks! 4y

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goodbyefrancie

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

I know several #littens have shared the news of this Missouri bill proposing holding funds from libraries and imprisoning librarians. This rep released a statement that confirmed his bigotry and attacked #DragQueen Story Hours. There is a petition at this link by the good people at #EveryLibrary. Please sign if you can. This has to be stopped. #Censorship #BannedBooks

https://www.everylibrary.org/missouri_hb2044_jail_time

dgingo Signed! What madness! 5y

jen_the_scribe Signed! That's crazy to me! 5y

GingerAntics Signed! That is disturbing. How is that even constitutional?! 5y

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Bookzombie Signed! This is insane! 5y

Lcsmcat Signed. Thanks for posting this. I‘ve been looking for a way to take action ever since I heard about this. 5y

Scochrane26 Done 5y

mrsmarch Done ✅ 5y

Jas16 ✅ 5y

LauraJ Thanks for sharing this! 🤗 5y

goodbyefrancie @BookishMarginalia Have you seen this petition? 5y

goodbyefrancie @GingerAntics It isn't. The Constitution seems to get treated as optional these days. It's insane. 5y

GingerAntics Fair point. It seems optional everywhere...everyday. 🙄 5y

MicheleinPhilly DONE. 5y

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JulAnna

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Using one of my favorite coffee mugs this Banned Books Week!
I am forever surprised when I read articles and see what books appear on the frequently challenged lists -not sure if I should use the 😢 or 😠 emoji?
What is your favorite banned book?

BookedBySunrise Kite Runner, I think it's on the list for some reason 5y

Patchshank Anything by Vonnegut. I think most of his books have been challenged at one time or another. 5y

JulAnna @MoBee Yes, it is and it is one of my favorites too! 5y

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JulAnna @Patchshank I have never read any Vonnegut-suggestion for where to start? 5y

Patchshank @JulAnna His Two most famous books are Slaughter House Five and Cat's Cradle. My personal favorite is Timequake. If you just want to dip your toes in he has several short story collections. 5y

Ericalambbrown Judy Bloom books. They were always banned when I was I kid and my parents didn‘t allow me to read them. I snuck them or would read them at friends houses. They were my first experience of thinking for myself and learning to form my own opinions about things. 5y

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AshleyHoss820

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

In case you needed any ideas for Banned Books week! I found this in The Joy of Children‘s Literature by Denise Johnson! 😊📚

Alora Love this! 5y

AshleyHoss820 @Alora Thank you!! I‘m all for encouraging the reading of banned books! 😄🤣 5y

Alora Harry Potter?! 5y

AshleyHoss820 @Alora Oh, I know. The one that still shocks me to this day is the fact that The Wizard of Oz was once banned. 🙄🙄🙄 5y

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TheHungryBookworms

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

#Bannedbookweek. What's your favorite banned book??📚📚💕😍

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MatchlessMarie

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek which reminds me it's been about a year since I updated my profile pic. Might need to get on that soon 😜

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Kimberlone

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Spotted while out book shopping today. #bannedbooksmonth

13North Woaa! 5y

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Krisjericho

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Because a week isn‘t long enough, I put up banned and challenged books on both children‘s display areas to encourage people to read banned books all month long.

SharonAlger You rebel! I love this. 5y

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Krisjericho

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Because a week isn‘t long enough, I put up banned and challenged books on both children‘s display areas to encourage people to read banned books all month long.

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britt_brooke

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

“READ BANNED BOOKS.” Loving my newest bookish tee. #modcloth #bookishtee

rmaclean4 So cute. 5y

britt_brooke @rmaclean4 Thanks!! 🥰 5y

ephemeralwaltz Very awesome! 5y

britt_brooke @ephemeralwaltz Thanks! 5y

Reviewsbylola ♥️♥️♥️ 5y

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Nute

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

My first Readathon participation. Not a stellar performance, but a well-intended effort nonetheless. Five hours allowed the completion of a reread of Animal Farm and a formidable indent of Brave New World. This was fun, but I was easily distracted & sucked into other activities...maybe because it is a 3 day holiday weekend. We had company. We had plans for annual festivals. Yeah, excuses...I know. One thing for sure, a lot of Littens rocked it 💯!

Clwojick, RadicalReader, Andrew65, BeansPage

Nute #24B4Monday #MayMadness Application: Spark Post 5y

MoniqueReads305 That's a great attempt. Good job. I never reach the whole 24 hours but I look the dent it puts in my reading. 5y

Nute @MoniqueReads305 Agreed! I didn‘t really have a goal, but I somehow thought I would do better. I think that I need a quieter weekend. Not only is it a three day holiday weekend, it is also the first warm weather weekend in my neck of the woods. And the welcome of summer. AND garden planting weekend. Oh my! I was doomed from the start!😜 5y

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Andrew65 That‘s a great time for a first effort, and given the busy weekend. Gives you a time to build on next month. Thanks for taking part and well done. 👏👏👏 (edited) 5y

BeansPage All things considered I think you did a fantastic job! So congratulations to you sweetheart 🎉🎉🎉 5y

rretzler Great job! Two excellent picks for your books - two of my favorites! 5y

Clwojick You still did great! Sometimes the time just gets away from you, and you end up having a much busier weekend than you originally planned. 🧡 5y

SconsinBookyBadger Good job nevertheless with your busy schedule 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y

TheSpineView Considering though had company, that is a great total. 5y

Nute @Andrew65 Thanks you for the kind words and encouragement. Hopefully, I will do better next time around!😊 5y

Nute @TheReadingMermaid @Clwojick @AnansiGirl @TheSpineView Thank you for the kind words. I feel incredibly motivated for the next effort because of each of you! 5y

Nute @rretzler Agreed...really good books. Timeless messages on so many levels! 5y

BeansPage 😘😘 5y

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Clwojick

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Hey guys, some of you are ahead of the game and have already done this... but this weeks #minichallenge is to share a stack of any #BannedBooks you own!

#maymadness @RadicalReader @TheReadingMermaid

lover.of.the.classics May I ask why these are “banned books”? 5y

BeansPage @lover.of.the.classics there is different reasons behind each book that has been banned. I would look them up on the American Library Association page. They have more detailed descriptions of why they are banned on that website. 5y

Samplergal Part of my downsizing is getting rid of physical books. That said, I really only have To Kill a Mockingbird left in my banned books. I won‘t part with it. 5y

Hooked_on_books I‘ve seen the ridiculous reasons for banning books but I still wonder what someone found objectionable about Where‘s Waldo. That‘s really odd. 5y

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BeansPage

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

So I know a lot of you have been doing this already but we wanted to see your banned books!

This week's #MiniChallenge for #MayMadness is to post your stack of (or your favorite) banned books!!!

@Clwojick @RadicalReader

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wanderinglynn

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

A few of my favorite #bannedbooks for #MayMadness #Recommendsday.

Clwojick, RadicalReader, BeansPage

sarahbarnes Great list! 5y

BeansPage Awesome 👍 5y

RadicalReader I love A Light in the Attic just recently found out another of my favorites had been banned multiple times

The scary stories treasury: three books to chill your bones

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AnfG Ha these books were banned? Gone with the wind, really!? 5y

wanderinglynn @RadicalReader 👍🏻 it‘s crazy what books have been banned. 5y

wanderinglynn @AnfG Most classics have been banned at one time or another. It‘s crazy, but true. 5y

AnfG @wanderinglynn amazing honestly. I don't get why this happens. Let it be, it's all a part of human history we should not be trying to remove it 5y

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SconsinBookyBadger

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

With Memorial Day giving me a four day weekend off, these are the #BannedBooks I‘d like to get read through week 4 of #MayMadness and the #24B4MONDAY readathon. There‘s a possibility that Of Mice and Men, and A Clockwork Orange will join the party depending on how much progress I make.

#TuesdayTBR #BannedBooksEdition @Clwojick @RadicalReader @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

Andrew65 Love this book, a quick but impactful read.

Of Mice and Men

Andrew65 A Wrinkle in Time banned, I ask you!!!!!! 5y

BeansPage @Andrew65 LMAO 😂😂😂 5y

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marleed I read Lord of the Flies as a 7th grader and before video or cable networks geared for youth. At the time I thought it shocking and it greatly impacted my caution of group-think. 5y

Andrew65 @marleed It is a seminal piece of work. 5y

marleed @Andrew65 i wonder if it would have the same impact to a 13 yr old today since many are exposed to violence through technology and games avail today. 5y

Clwojick 😍😍😍😍

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel

SconsinBookyBadger @Andrew65 what I‘ve learned is that AWIT was banned or challenged for promoting occult/witchcraft/New Age beliefs, the inclusion of Buddha, Einstein and other figures alongside Jesus undermines the Christian faith, and that the author mixes science and religion. (edited) 5y

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BeansPage

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Okay guys it's time for some #BannedBooks reading!

#MayMadness @Clwojick @RadicalReader

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Clwojick

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

One last link to some #BannedBooks to give you some inspiration for this weeks #MayMadness challenge!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

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Clwojick

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Here‘s a #ListChallenge link so you can test how many of these banned books you‘ve read, and also do you can have some inspiration to read more Banned books this week!

https://www.listchallenges.com/banned-classics

#MayMadness @TheReadingMermaid @RadicalReader

Samplergal Only 39! Ouch. 5y

wanderinglynn 44. About 6 or 7 others I‘ve seen adaptations but not read the book. Another dozen is currently sitting at my house in the TBR stack! 😂 5y

UnabridgedPod I got 74. (And I taught several of them!) 5y

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tammysue I got 37 5y

Mem_ugh Only 68 5y

Kimberlone I‘ve read 43, which I feel is pretty good since there are many books on that list I really have no interest in reading anyway 5y

SaturnDoo 63 books...a lot of them were required reading for me in jr high, high school and college ☺ 5y

Patchshank 34. A few are on my TBR, but most I have no interest in reading. A lot of them I read in school. Didn't know they were banned or challenged. 5y

rretzler 42 (good number!) I never had to read the classics in school, so these all books I‘ve read on my own. There are several that I will never read (I‘m talking about you, James Joyce), but many that I intend to eventually read. 5y

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wanderinglynn

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This year‘s theme for #bannedbooksweek ☝🏻
https://bannedbooksweek.org/banned-books-week-2019-censorship-leaves-us-in-the-d...

jb72 Nice theme! But I think they could do better with the logo. 6y

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Soubhiville

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

I‘ve received some nice Litsy mail this week! Thanks @phatsallylee @Stacypatrice @Kdgordon88 @iread2much @CareBear and @Jas16 thanks for the button too! I picked up some fun cards this weekend, so I‘m enjoying some letter writing tonight 😊💌

Jas16 ❤️ 6y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💌🙌🏻 6y

Sleepswithbooks 💛😁 6y

iread2much Yay! I love that thank you note, so cool to find a book themed one! 6y

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ValerieAndBooks

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

I‘m sure many of you Littens own at least one of @outofprint ‘s Banned Books items ❤️. Well this morning over breakfast I got to wondering how many I‘ve read from what‘s on my mug! Made a list of all 51 books on it, and I‘ve already read 32. Some others are currently in my TBR.

I‘m thinking this might be a good (informal) reading challenge for myself in 2019! Anyone want to do this also 😊?

Many are also #1001Books

OriginalCyn620 I have this mug! I need to do the same and see how many I‘ve read. 😊 6y

wordslinger42 James & the Giant Peach was banned?! 6y

LeahBergen I have the socks! 😄 6y

Lynnsoprano I‘ve never looked at this list. Maybe this could be a source of our buddy read. 6y

Liz_M What a fun idea! ☺ 6y

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BookishMarginalia

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#TrickyCat takes a nap on our #bannedbooks @outofprint tote bag — 🥰

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MatchlessMarie

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

8 Total
6 Picture Books
1 Nonfiction/Libretto
1 Audio
I didn‘t do that well this month because Insomnia. More about that here: https://matchlessmarie.wordpress.com/2018/10/01/september-reads-the-month-of-the... #ReadingResolutions #SeptemberStats

Jess7

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Rachel.Rencher

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

I'm just gonna leave this here 😍📚

rather_be_reading 👏👏👏😍😍😍 6y

Cubanmommy95 🙌🙌 6y

ReadingVampire 😋😍😍😍 6y

Cathythoughts 😂😂😂 6y

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biblio_ginger

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

My sister @LitDrivenGirl made this awesome sign for the bookstore's banned books display! Brandon and I enjoyed looking like reading trouble makers. 😉😎 #istandwiththebanned #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek

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Skeeterisme

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

This is what I‘m reading for #bannedbooksweek How are you celebrating your freedom to read?

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SilversReviews

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

This was live earlier today on Facebook if you care to watch.

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Mandigolightly

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

Banned books week is my favorite week

thereadingowlvina Love this! 🤗 6y

zzz Very cool display 👍 6y

Carolhreads I love this!! 6y

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BeansPage

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

I hope you all are having a happy Banned Books Week! Which banned books have you read in honor of this wonderful week? 😃
Here's a link for the American Library Association banned books list:
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics

#BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

BeansPage My son and I just read

Where the Wild Things Are

Nebklvr Reading Faulkner 6y

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Libby1

Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read | Robert P. Doyle

From the A Mighty Girl Facebook page.

The name of the creator of this display and the library where it‘s located are at the top of the photo.

And another thing. Those dingbats protesting Winnie the Pooh with all their “spiritual” knowledge must have forgotten about Balaam and his talking, heroic donkey.

I love that donkey.

❤️🐴❤️

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