Banned-Books

Wednesday News: Internet Archive preserves the news; Sir Somebody hates bloggers; B&N launching a video app this fall

Wednesday News: Internet Archive preserves the news; Sir Somebody hates bloggers; B&N launching a video app this fall

Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’  completely terrifying YouTube The bionic book worm – My head is quite large today. It was inflated after I read this article quoting Sir Peter Stothard who opined that book bloggers would ruin literature because, like snakes in the garden, we are leading the enlightened down a dark path(…)

Tuesday Midday Links: It’s Banned Book Week & October New Releases

Tuesday Midday Links: It’s Banned Book Week & October New Releases

This week is banned book week, a week that celebrates literature and reminds us all to remain vigilant against efforts to remove books from our libraries. The books challenged aren’t on how to make a dirty bomb or how to organize your own chapter of the KKK but books that have dirty language in them(…)

Tuesday Midday Links

Maili is guesting over at Victoria Janssen’s blog home about her favorite category books. Sadly so many of them are out of print. I’ve read all but one of the stories recommended by Maili and they are worth hunting down and not just because Jane is the heroine in one of the books. Really. You(…)

Monday Midday Links: Kensington Loses a Family Member in Kate Duffy

Kate Duffy was the backbone of romance at Kensington. As editorial director, she created the Brava line and discovered a multitude of authors. A no nonsense, tell it like it is, sort of person, Kate was so devoted to her job that illness took no place. Unfortunately, Kate succumbed to a difficult battle she had(…)

Racist Children’s Book Not to be Included in Collection

Racist Children’s Book Not to be Included in Collection

Last week was banned book week so it is a provocative time for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to pull Tintin in the Congo from its fall list. Tintin in the Congo has been widely criticized for its racist depiction of Colonial-era Africans. The “in the Cong” book will also be excluded from the(…)

Purging of Books at Prison Libraries Stopped

Bureaucracy generally moves slowly. In spring of 2004, the Justice Department issued a warning that there was a radical Islamist influence in the prisons. A couple of weeks ago, in response to that warning, the federal Bureau of Prisons began the “Standardized Chapel Library Project”. The BoP worked with “experts” and compiled a list of(…)

Harry Potter Is Killing the Kids

So says a mother of four from Georgia. Laura Mallory has been pushing for the Harry Potter books to be removed from the shelves of Georgia public school libraries. Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil – as she claims the Potter ones do – help(…)