Sunday, September 24, 2006

Cheers - It's Banned Books Week

This celebration was begun in 1982 by that bunch of wooly headed liberals, the American Library Association.

I've read some of the lists of books that have been either challenged or banned over the years. If all the challenges succeeded, the libraries would have nothing but empty shelves.

I told my friend Ingrid at Blogger Round Table that I was sure Fahrenheit 451 was toward the top of the list. You can read her post here.

3 comments:

  1. my sidebar has a little icon regarding banned books week- i got it from jovial cynic at new protest.
    http://newprotest.org/details.pl?495

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  2. We may find ourselves listed in "banned blogs week" someday!

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  3. I posted some time back about sending banned books to the charitable organizations that are collecting books to send to decimated libraries in N.O.

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