News and views from the Banning books (with a dose of contrarian thinking)
Natalie put up a nice display for Banned Books Week:
Here's an entry from my favorite new library cartoon, Shelf Check:
A warning that airport screeners might be watching what you read.
And a question:
Here's an entry from my favorite new library cartoon, Shelf Check:
A warning that airport screeners might be watching what you read.
And a question:
Completely a hypo. This question in no way implies that banning books is good. But if you were king (or queen) of the universe and could wave a wand and a book would blink out of existence. What books would you get rid of and why?Hmm. All those books that aren't really books? The TV show/movie/cartoon-derived "books"? What are your thoughts? And no, calculus textbooks don't count, sorry.
posted by franceylibrarian at 3:14 PM
5 Comments:
Just when I get my Google Reader feeds weeded a bit, you point me to "Shelf Check"...thanks for the tip; I love it!
Huh, I never thought about that... Shel Silverstein wrote some interesting stuff.
And with that, I'll end with the message the display gave las time it was out in the public eye...
"Ban your freedom. Read an excersize book."
And that's what I would use my wand for.
So sorry, Diane (*inserts evil smiley face here*). Enjoy!
The post Aaron refers to is here. I suppose it's what we get for urging clever students to exercise their right to read (*inserts wistful, sardonic smiley face here*).
You can guess which book I'd pick to eradicate from the earth.
Um, let's see. Are the author's initials CP? And does the title start with an "E"? Hee hee.
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