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AmyG

Banned Books | DK

ChaoticMissAdventures I love him so much. 12h

Chrissyreadit ❤️ 12h

Prairiegirl_reading 🎯 12h

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MemoirsForMe 😍🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 12h

dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 10h

AnnCrystal ✊🏼😎📚💝📚. 5h

DogMomIrene Truth! 2h

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

No Excuses Reading Journal for Banned Books | Tracy Tennant

Link to list:

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/2003683009/-1/-1/0/250404-LIST%20OF%20REMO...

Link to website above where the link is at:

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/4...

#Censorship + #BannedBooks = #FutureReadingGoals

Susanita 19 pages! 🤬 2w

ManyWordsLater I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Well if you curate out anything to do with racism, gender, feminism, or transgender…you maybe are not curating a collection on a specific topic but removing a complete topic. For instance….race books out, Mein Kampf in…you could say more war history related…. But also out as feminism books about the underground movement of women in Afghanistan….which was probably pretty important in a fairly recent war. So I think it‘s the how, why, & ⤵️

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ purpose. I am not a librarian, I should add. But I would think curating a collection is different from say removing from a library. My public library has the library, and a separate curated section on local history….but that does not mean they removed every book from the main library on any other subject. 2w

shortsarahrose @ManyWordsLater - I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa And why on earth Maya Angelou needed to be cut, only makes sense if it‘s a military curated collection…. But I did not see any other books of American classics novels of that sort listed. Just hers. And I find it hard to believe there was only 1 classic literature book in the library. No Steinbeck for example.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you! I knew we needed a librarian! When in doubt, always ask a librarian. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Susanita right! I had heard about it when it happened, but today was the first time I had seen a complete list. Very interesting what topics the removed books seemed to be centered around. And so nice they included the topics for each books, and I‘m assuming the rational for pulling them. 2w

ncsufoxes It‘s an odd collection of books, meaning it‘s kind of all over the place. A few repeated titles (some have different publication dates but some are repeated 2-3xs). There are only a few fiction books. I‘m surprised The 1619 Project wasn‘t on there. It is interesting to see what they find intimidating. My guess is whoever curated this list probably hasn‘t read one of these books. They probably used AI to generate the list. 2w

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Leftcoastzen

Read These Banned Books: A Journal and 52-Week Reading Challenge from the American Library Association | American Library Association (ALA)

A pop up shop inside Changing Hands Tempe , Az. I heard the conversations of teachers & staff talking of all the controversies & challenges. Hey , I know that most Littens are profoundly aware of all of this , I was happy to see customers who are discovering for the first time the extent of this BS !

Hooked_on_books That‘s great visibility! Good for them for bringing attention to this. 3w

BarbaraBB What a great initiative. 3w

TieDyeDude 😍 3w

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Tamra

Banned Books | DK

I was tempted, except nobody but me would see them under my pant legs. 😜

AmyG 😂love them! 2mo

BethM Omg I totally would have bought them. 2mo

dabbe 🤩🤣🤩 2mo

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LeahBergen 😆😆 2mo

Julsmarshall But you would know they were there :) 2mo

Leftcoastzen 👏👏👏😂 2mo

Prairiegirl_reading I have similar socks and I purposely wear them to work when I‘m pissed off. No one else can see them but I know they are there and it‘s so petty that it makes me happy. 😊 2mo

Jeg I love socks like that but same problem no one sees them. 🤷🏻‍♂️. 2mo

Cathythoughts Short pants are the answer 😁😘 2mo

sarahbarnes Oh man I want those. 😍 2mo

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kwmg40

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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A humorous, clever and satirical story about book censorship. I enjoyed all the references to Orwell's 1984 and other banned books.

#ToB25
#gottacatchemall (Raticate: betrayal) @PuddleJumper

BarbaraBB Glad you enjoyed it too 2mo

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Lesliereadsalot

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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Books about the future can be really fun and scary, all at the same time. This poor schlub, whose job is making sure allowed books reflect the views of the current government, is caught in a quandary when he starts to fall in love with the stories that are banned. Was never sure where this book was going, but it felt timely and sometimes realistic.

@BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB You read that fast! Are you glad you did? 2mo

Lesliereadsalot Yes, although I still would‘ve voted for James! @BarbaraBB 2mo

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Deblovestoread

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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#BookReport

Only two books finished this last week. While I‘m enjoying being back in the office it is cutting into my reading time. I enjoyed the tagged book. A very timely fairytale.

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Butterfinger

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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Scary! First, the books. Then, the ideas. Finally, the ones who really scare the dictatorships, the ones with imagination.

Our children.

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Butterfinger

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

https://pen.org/transgender-books-removed-from-stonewall-national-monument-websi...

"And even though, time and time again, books had been presented to him as evil agents plotting to take over the world, and even though books had almost thrown him out of the house-not to mention biting his wife-he couldn't bear the thought of burning them. Banning them was punishment enough."

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cariashley

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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I‘m not usually a fan of satires, but I liked this one. Though it was a bit too close for comfort to our potential medium term future in the US. #tob25

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