Hello and happy Wednesday everyone! Since this week’s Banned Books Week, I’ve been reading a few banned/challenged books to prepare for my blog posts! I haven’t done one in a few weeks and felt like this was the perfect opportunity to get back into it. Although I will mainly focus on banned/challenged books, I’ll includeContinueContinue reading “WWW Wednesday (09/21/22): Banned Books Week Edition”
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Banned Books Week 2022 (Top Ten Tuesday): Banned Books To Read This Fall
Hey everyone, and welcome to the third day of Banned Books Week! Since today is Tuesday, it’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday… but I’m putting my own twist on the prompt. This week’s prompt is about books on my Fall TBR, but since we’re focusing on banned books this week, I decided to createContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2022 (Top Ten Tuesday): Banned Books To Read This Fall”
Banned Books Week 2022 (Book Highlight): The House On Mango Street
Hello everyone and welcome to the second day of Banned Books Week 2022! Today I’ll be talking about The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The House On Mango Street is a story following our young protagonist, Esperanza Cordero, and her experiences as a Chicana in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago over the courseContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2022 (Book Highlight): The House On Mango Street”
Banned Books Week 2022: Let’s Get Started
Hello and happy Sunday everyone! Today is the start of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week 2022, and as someone who is passionate about the topic of banned books, I’m going to be posting blogs every day this week about various banned books that I have read or picked up recently. Also, as youContinueContinue reading “Banned Books Week 2022: Let’s Get Started”
BEDIO: 6 Banned Books to Read in October
As a Bookshop affiliate, I get a small commission if you purchase anything through the book links in this post. Since it is Banned Books Week, and the beginning of October, let’s discuss banned horror books! Horror books faced a lot of challenges and bans in the 90’s especially, when there was more of aContinueContinue reading “BEDIO: 6 Banned Books to Read in October”
BEDIO and Banned Books Week: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Many of the books I discussed this week were published a while ago, with Fahrenheit 451 being published in 1953, The Color Purple was published in 1982, and the most recently published book discussed, Persepolis, in 2000. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was published more recently, having come out in 2017, and wasContinueContinue reading “BEDIO and Banned Books Week: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas”
BEDIO and Banned Book Week : Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
During my senior year of high school, I took AP World History, as I had a strong interest in history, and had taken other AP history classes in the past. My teacher would have us do reading assignments that had us reading books discussing world history, from non-fiction memoirs to graphic novels. This is howContinueContinue reading “BEDIO and Banned Book Week : Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi”
Banned Book Week: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple was first published in 1982, was made into a movie in 1985 (it was Whoopi Goldberg’s breakthrough role, which led to her Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and winning her first Golden Globe), and then was made into a musical in 2005. It is a story of the lives of BlackContinueContinue reading “Banned Book Week: The Color Purple by Alice Walker”
Banned Book Week: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Welcome back to my Banned Books Week posts! Today we’ll be talking about a specific book that has faced its own fair share of censorship/challenges/bans, despite being a book criticizing the practice. “The classic bestseller about censorship-more important now than ever before”, according to the cover’s tagline, Fahrenheit 451 is a book you may haveContinueContinue reading “Banned Book Week: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury”
Banned Book Week: Poetry Edition
Hey everyone, I hope you had a good weekend! For those of you who may have missed my post yesterday, it’s Banned Book Week right now, and I’m posting everyday until the end of the week. Since I typically do Poetry Prompt Monday’s, I figured in honor of Banned Books Week, let’s talk about someContinueContinue reading “Banned Book Week: Poetry Edition”
Eclectic Erin 