Hey everyone, I hope all is well! One of the Booktubers I watch, ReadswithRachel, is doing a banned books book club this year (you can read more about it here). She also recently posted a video about The Bluest Eye if you want to check it out. For January, the book The Bluest Eye by ToniContinueContinue reading “Reading Banned Books: The Bluest Eye”
Category Archives: Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week 2023: Resources to Continue Fighting Books Bans
As today is Let Freedom Read Day, here is more information about what you can do to support the fight against book censorship, not just today but after Banned Books Week as well. If you aren’t sure where to start when it comes to taking action, contact your local library (especially if they have aContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2023: Resources to Continue Fighting Books Bans”
Banned Books Week: Continuing the Conversation
Hey everyone!As Banned Books Week has been underway for a few days now, there are a few topics, articles, and videos I wanted to share that I found interesting. Book Challenges/Bans and Authors The first topic is about the impact of banned books on the authors who write these books, which I’ve seen discussed inContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week: Continuing the Conversation”
Top Ten Tuesday: Banned Books I’ve Read and What I Still Want To Read
Hey everyone, and happy Top Ten Tuesday! This week’s prompt is Reading Goals I Want To Accomplish Before the End of the Year, but since it is Banned Books Week, I wanted to highlight banned books I’ve read, as well as books I still want to read (and hopefully will get to by the endContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Banned Books I’ve Read and What I Still Want To Read”
Banned Books Week: Why This Conversation Matters
Warning: There is mention of child sexual abuse in the “Context” section. As book bans and challenges continue to rise, it is even more important to understand why there has been such a significant increase and its implications. It’s what I want to focus on during this Banned Book Week, compared to previous years whereContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week: Why This Conversation Matters”
Banned Books Week 2023: The Beginning
Hey everyone, and happy Sunday! Today is the beginning of Banned Book Week 2023, hosted by the American Library Association (ALA). Although it’s always important to talk about the negative impact of book banning and censorship, this year, it is especially necessary given the significant increase in book challenges this year. In 2022, the OfficeContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2023: The Beginning”
BEDIO: Banned Book Highlight: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Hello, and welcome back to one of my final BEDIO posts for 2022! Today’s post is actually a book I wanted to talk about during Banned Books Week, but I never got around to reading it, so I saved the draft for later. Well… I still haven’t read it, but I want to talk aboutContinueContinue reading “BEDIO: Banned Book Highlight: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison”
Banned Books Week 2022: The End Has Come
The end of Banned Books Week has arrived, which means this is the last post of the week. I want to say thank you to everyone for joining me, and also to remind everyone of why Banned Books week is so important, especially now with the rise of book banning/challenges in schools. The American LibraryContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2022: The End Has Come”
Banned Books Week 2022 (Book Highlight): Monday’s Not Coming
As a Bookshop affiliate, purchasing a book using my Bookshop.org affiliate code will give me a small commission. Welcome back to another Banned Books Week post! Today I’ll be highlighting Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson. I read this book maybe a year or two ago and was intrigued by the characters as wellContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2022 (Book Highlight): Monday’s Not Coming”
Banned Books Week 2022: Banned Books News Highlights
Hello and happy Thursday everyone! Throughout the week, I’ve been finding interesting articles about various topics that fall under the Banned Books Week theme, so I thought, why not share them? The first article I found is about a librarian in New Jersey named Martha Hickson who created an app called Demo Defense to helpContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2022: Banned Books News Highlights”
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