Would you believe that according to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, there were 323 challenges to books in 2016? These are books found in school and public libraries and the majority of them are award winners and nominees. Here are the the books which received the most challenges.
1. This One Summer, written by Marino Tamiki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki – Challenged because it includes LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, and it was considered sexually explicit with mature themes.
2. Drama, written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier – Challenged because it includes LGBT characters, was deemed sexually explicit, and was considered to have an offensive political viewpoint.
3. George, written by Alex Gino – Challenged because it includes a transgender child, and the “sexuality was not appropriate at elementary levels”.
4. I Am Jazz, written by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, and illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas – Challenged for portraying a transgender child and because of language, sex education and offensive viewpoints.
5. Two Boys Kissing, written by David Levithan – Challenged because its cover has the image of two boys kissing, and it was considered to have sexually explicit LGBT content.
6. Looking For Alaska, written by John Green – Challenged because of a sexually explicit scene that may lead a student to “sexual experimentation”.
7. Big Hard Sex Criminals: Volume 1, written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky – Challenged because it was considered sexually explicit.
8. Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread, written by Chuck Palahniuk – Challenged for profanity, sexual explicitness, and being “disgusting and all around offensive.”
9. Little Bill series, written by Bill Cosby and illustrated by Varnette P. Honeywood – Challenged because of the criminal allegations against the author.
10. Eleanor & Park, written by Rainbow Rowell – Challenged because of offensive language.
Other recently banned or challenged books include: The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon; The Doll’s House, by Neil Gaiman; Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safron Foer; Just One Day, by Gayle Forman; This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson; The Kite Runner, by Matthew Spangler; Dead Poets Society, by N. H. Kleinbaum; The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, Daughter of the Forest, by Juliet Marillier; Beloved, by Toni Morrison; Persopolis, by Marjane Satrapi; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skyloot; Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck; Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain Fifty Shades of Grey series, by EL James; Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling; The Glass Castle: A Memoir, by Jeanette Walls; the Bible; the Koran; The Librarian of Basra, by Jeanette Winter.
Sadly, these are just a few of the books targeted this past year by misguided and ignorant people. I know all of us lead such busy lives, but during this coming week, I encourage everyone, if you can, to visit your local library and check out a banned book. They won’t be difficult to find because most libraries will have displays. And remember:
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.
James Howe
Author of the Bunnicula series & The Misfits
beetleypete said:
Who are these idiots challenging such books? The Kite Runner, and The Curious Incident.. etc. Just crazy. Hard to believe they have actually read them.
Good cause, Kim.
Best wishes, Pete.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I’m so glad you asked that Pete. During my 26 years as a librarian I received about 2-3 challenges a year. Out of those, approximately 95% were from people who hadn’t read the book in question. One prime example of this was The Harry Potter books. From the time the first book was published over here, there was at least one request to remove them from the children’s collection every year. The first thing I’d ask the person is if they had read the book(s) and not one of them had. Their complaints were based on things they had heard or read online or from conservative religious leaders. 😒
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beetleypete said:
Conservative religious leaders. That says it all…
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Yep.😒
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Blog Andrew said:
Hmm Kim you caught me totally unawares when I reached number 9! Now there’s a question, do you ban a certain book because the author is a criminal? In Britain ex prisoners by law aren’t allowed to publish books telling their stories because quite rightly they shouldn’t profit financially because of their crimes. BUT I’d never considered the case of a potential sex offender! As for the others, all I will say is I WISH my primary school library had stocked sex education books and then I’d have been educated about masturbation. I don’t know if you read my post about the sorry tale, but all I will say is this hole in my education created problems for me whilst a teenager and still makes me angry today! Great post Kim 🙂
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Thanks Andrew! We basically have the same rules here prohibiting criminals from profiting by sharing their stories. However, the Little Bill series was published long before the allegations about Mr. Cosby came to light. Also, he hasn’t actually been found guilty of anything yet, since his first trial ended in a mistrial.
I don’t remember reading that post of yours. Can you send me a link?
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Blog Andrew said:
🙂 Kim you were kind enough to like when published ty. Here’s the link https://collie123.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/sexual-politics-and-childhood-awakenings/ I’ve just this moment re read and it’s a little all over the place, only the last half sketchily addresses the fact, my primary school gave an awful sex ed lesson and the library stocked NOT ONE book! Disgraceful! Which is inexcusable and an example of how our ‘thought police’ can cause problems by not educating properly. My post is ok lol but a little all over the place 🙂
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Thanks for the link Andrew!
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lucindablogs said:
This just reads like a list of really interesting, diverse books. Persepolis is one of my favourites, as is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. When will people realise that it’s perfectly possible to read about drug taking, sex, witchcraft etc. and not be instantly inspired to try it for ourselves?
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
That’s such a good question Lucinda but sadly it’s one I don’t have an answer for.😒
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Touch My Spine Book Reviews said:
I love this post! I have always been fascinated in banned books and its so ridiculous these people who challenge such great books!!!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Thanks Dani! I used to host these huge Hogwarts nights everything one of the HP books was released, and believe it or not I was accused by a patron for promoting witchcraft and satanism! This is especially ironic given that Danvers aka Salem Village was the center of the witchcraft hysteria in 1692!😡
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Touch My Spine Book Reviews said:
Reblogged this on Touch My Spine Book Reviews and commented:
Love this posts from friend and fellow blogger Kim!!! Celebrate our right to read!!!
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Touch My Spine Book Reviews said:
What’s sad is so many are because of sexual orientation. Hate is learned and this is a sad world we live in that people want to ban books because someone’s preferencw! Fuck that!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
It’s difficult to believe this is STILL happening Dani!😡
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kertsen said:
No hate is as much a part of human nature as love ; without the ability to hate we would not have survived.
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Dani☆Touch My Spine Book Reviews☆ said:
I understand that hate can be a natural emotion. Me personally, I have no hatred for anyone. I have been hurt and abused in the worst way possible in some ways but I do not hate my abusers and I do not hate anyone or anyone who has wronged me. Instead I get hurt and I pray that they better themselves. I believe there are some horrible people in this world and I can hate their actions but not hate the person. I don’t know if I’m explaining it the best way. But what I meant was about sexual orientation or any basic human difference. That is learned behavior. Babies don’t just hate someone based on their gender, sexual orientation, disability or race. They don’t understand that or have that. This is my personal opinion and my personal belief but I do understand why there is hatred and why people hate but me personally I don’t have to hate anyone to survive but I respect your point of view.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Perfectly said Dani! You are a class act!
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Dani☆Touch My Spine Book Reviews☆ said:
You’re too sweet Kim!!! You are the best my Book Sister!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
😙😙😙😙
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Dani☆Touch My Spine Book Reviews☆ said:
💖📚👑💖📚👑
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kertsen said:
It is not completely learnt behaviour otherwise some of those brought up properly to love their neighbours would not turn out to be wicked.
It is an inherited quality of us humans we are tribal and we support our tribe and family before everything else. We see it in nations which are really big tribes and Mr Trump wants his American Tribe to rule all others. I will feel different about gay men because I’m not gay but I must put aside those feelings and accept them as fellow human beings.
Babies are unable to reason or know about the adult world so we must endeavour to guide them to understand the human race is one big undivided tribe. It is good that you are able to separate people from their actions but we care responsible for our actions and have to bear the consequences.
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Mama Cass said:
Clockwork Orange, the color purple, roots… wtf. Great blog and now I have more to add to the TBR pile! Hugs
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
And this is just the top ten list for 2016. If you visit http://www.ala.org they break it down decade by decade.
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Mama Cass said:
Wow!!! You’re just a Diana Prince, you know?
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
*Blushes* You just made my whole day Cass! Thank you.😙
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Mama Cass said:
Hugs hugs hugs
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
🤗
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Mama Cass said:
I need advice, please. I received an ARC from Netgalley and the book is sooo violent, I can’t get through it. What do i do?
Hugs
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Uh Oh! I hate it when that happens. I usually try to get through an ARC or eARC when it’s sent to me by NetGalley, Edelweiss, the publisher, or author. However, there’s been a few times I just couldn’t, despite me giving it my best effort. My Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend immediately springs to mind. Ugh. That book was truly awful!😒
Anyway, if you’ve made a good faith effort, then there’s no sense in torturing yourself Cass. I’d still review it on your blog, NetGalley, Goodreads, etc. Just be honest and say that this was a dnf for you and why.
I hope your next book is fabulous!
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Mama Cass said:
I wish books had warning labels like movies. This book had brutal rapes/torture/murder of a mom and her young daughter in the prologue. I mean, you know I love a good psychological thriller but this was a WHAM! In your face brutality event. I think I will try a few more chapters now that I know what to expect.
Thanks so much for your help Kim. I was really stuck. You’re a sweetheart and I am grateful for your friendship. Hugs!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
No problem Cass! I’m glad I could help.😊
That does sound like a rough opening. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about publishers including trigger warnings for their books. I just reviewed a book yesterday and started off the post with trigger warnings.
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Mama Cass said:
Yes!! Trigger warnings about rape, incest, torture and animal abuse would be very helpful. I’m still triggered by a book by Lillian Jackson Braun. I can take a human getting murdered, but for God’s sake, don’t hurt a cat or dog. There’s a great website for movies called doesthedogdie.com
I love thrillers and mysteries and murder doesn’t bother me. I could read cozy mysteries but they’re too fluff and hetero romance bores me. (No offense)
Thanks for including trigger warnings in your reviews. You’re an awesome lady.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Thanks for that link Cass. I hate it when pets are killed!😒
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Mama Cass said:
It’s totally unnecessary
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Mama Cass said:
I also go to IMDB, type in the movie and scroll down to the Parents Advisory or maybe it’s Parents guide.. anyway most times under intense scenes people will post if there’s animals. I really wish authors would not kill pets.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Ooh! Great idea!
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Mama Cass said:
I have one every 10 years or so. I wonder how many librarians are under listed under frightening scenes.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Haha!😁
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Carrie said:
Sadly we live in the era of everyone needs to be offended by something instead of just passing by on whatever it is you don’t like you must insist no one else enjoys it either.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I had only been working as a children’s librarian for 2 months back in 1986, when I received my first request to remove a book from our collection. It was Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Paterson and the patron had a problem with some of the profanity in the book. I believe it holds the dubious distinction of being one of the most widely banned or challenged children’s books.
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Carrie said:
While I can sympathize with not wanting your child to pick up things with content you aren’t comfortable with I don’t agree with taking those away from others who may want to enjoy them. If worried about sex or language or whatever else in a book then read the book before letting your child, simple as that. But no we’d rather blame everyone else and anything else than take responsibility for ourselves these days. And heck, I was reading Stephen King in grade school and i turned out fine. LOL
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Exactly Carrie! No one has the right to make those kinds of decisions for other parents and their children.
And you beat me in terms of discovering the joys of Stephen King. My first book by him was Carrie, and I didn’t read it until I was 14. 😊
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Carrie said:
Yep, some kids are just more mature too than others so why limit them and their imaginations? I know by 12-14 or so I was reading adult books whereas other kids are still working on the middle grade type of books. And as far as language is concerned I imagine they are hearing worse from their friends anyway.
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Zoë said:
o.O My goodness. It still astounds me. Some unexpected titles on here, too.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
It’s pathetic this is still continuing Zoe.😒
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Richard said:
Great post, and the comments are a brilliant read too. Can’t believe some of these books are seen as dangerous. The work I always associate with being banned is Lady Chatterly’s Lover, and that is only because my parents banged on about it being banned haha!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Thanks Richard. That’s one of the first ones to spring to my mind.
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KrystiYAandWine said:
I cannot even believe some of these books are on this list. I mean, I’m against banning books in general, but come on!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I know Krysti. It’s pathetic.😒
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KrystiYAandWine said:
It really is. I can’t spend too much time thinking about it, or I just get angry at people’s level of ignorance.
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theorangutanlibrarian said:
Wow literally can’t believe some of the books on this list- I mean, something has really gone wrong with people’s thinking when they’re getting mad at John Green or Rainbow Rowell. And let’s not even get started on the whole banning HP phase… I remember that whole crazy debacle.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
It truly is frustrating.😒
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ihaveabadsenseofhumor said:
I can’t believe books like the Harry Potter series, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Just One Day and The Kite Runner, are banned or challenged. Those really surprised me. Who the f decides this anyways? If people just read the books I’m sure they would have another opinion.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
During my 26 years as a librarian I found the overwhelming amount of people who requested that books be removed, never actually read the book they were complaining about. A prime example of this is the Harry Potter books.😒
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ihaveabadsenseofhumor said:
And all I can say is ‘why?’. You can at least read the goddamn book before speaking out about something you don’t understand/know or can’t make a qualified statement about!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Exactly! This especially drove me absolutely NUTS!😒
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ihaveabadsenseofhumor said:
I would’ve probably struggled to stay polite towards those customers 😛
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I had to bite my tongue on many occasions.😒
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Michelle Morrison said:
I do get the idea that people should be able to decide for themselves what they read or don’t read, and that you shouldn’t condemn a book you haven’t read for yourself. I don’t hesitate to not continue to read something if I don’t care for the content, and I have that option. I don’t think banning is the answer. In fact, that might be a way of drawing more attention to it. However, I don’t think young children should be subjected to material that is sexually explicit or that has a lot of profanity. Admittedly, with technology so advanced these days children grow up a lot faster than they used to-but that’s a topic for another post.. It’s important for parents to be proactive and be involved in their children’s education. There’s a balancing point. Just my take.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I agree that parents should be proactive with what their children are reading, watching, and playing Michelle. But they don’t have the right to enforce their opinions on other families. You wouldn’t believe the horror stories I could tell you! Just one of them involved a mother who stormed into the children’s room one evening and started screaming at me for letting her 14 year old “baby” check out a Stephen King book. The Stephen King books are in the adult collection upstairs. And I wasn’t even the one who checked out the book in question. Her son checked it out at our main circulation desk. But none of that mattered to this mother. She actually called our Town Manager demanding I be fired! Then there were the scuffles over sex ed books andbooks like Heather Has Two Mommies. And I’m not even going to get started on the Harry Potter series. So, you can probably guess why I’m so passionate about this subject.
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Michelle Morrison said:
I don’t dispute that people don’t have the right to force their opinions on others. The mom was wrong and didn’t accomplish anything by screaming like that or blaming you for what her kid checked out. That was something that should have been between her and the kid.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Exactly Michelle! And I apologize if I went off on a rant. It certainly wasn’t directed at you. After over two decades as a children’s librarian it’s a bit of a sore spot for me. I hope I didn’t offend you.
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Michelle Morrison said:
We all need to vent now and then. I worked as a preschool teacher for quite a few years and some of the parents were worse than the kids. :-p I mean, really, parents should be capable of showing more maturity than their preschool-age child. Good grief.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
That was the same case with my job. I had another mother accuse me of promoting satanism for hosting a “Night at Hogwarts” which I did whenever one of the new Harry Potter books was coming out. Even though she had never read any of the books, I just couldn’t get through to her. It was so frustrating!
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Michelle Morrison said:
She should have at least read the books before deciding they promoted Satanism. It’s one thing to think something about a book isn’t good, but to decide that without even reading it is ridiculous. And what about the Disney movies? Quite a few of them have magic and witches. I don’t understand how someone could condemn Harry Potter and not have a problem with the Disney movies but that seems to be the case a lot of the time. They should at least be consistent about it. It’s just ignorance, and you can’t reason with people who think that way.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Right? I think the challenges to the Harry Potter books bother me the most. Not one single patron who requested they be removed had actually read them which floored me. And these were all people who had no problem checking out Disney movies. I also brought up classic fairytales and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis who was a Christian author, to no avail. They were convinced by right wing media and religious leaders that these books were evil. When Pope Benedict condemned them, I wrote a five page letter to the Vatican which included a list of the many Christian symbols that were used in the stories. Not surprisingly, I never heard back from them.
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Michelle Morrison said:
I love The Chronicles of Narnia, and there is certainly magic in the books in that series. Unfortunately it doesn’t surprise me either that you didn’t hear back from the Vatican.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
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Michelle Morrison said:
At least you made an effort to speak up, that is something. Just to clarify, I’m not anti-church. I won’t go off topic and get into my religious views, I realize that isn’t the point of the post. However, there are good things about the church. It’s not their place to try to make others do what they think they should do though. They aren’t being helpful by doing that. They are people and there is bound to be nonsense where there are people.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I wasn’t getting that impression Michelle. I’m a “lapsed Catholic” myself.
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Michelle Morrison said:
I’m not an expert on the Catholic church, but from what I understand there are a lot of people who consider themselves lapsed Catholics. I went through a time when I was sour on the whole church scene, but I go to a good church now, although of course they aren’t perfect. I do not believe church attendance is what makes you a Christian though.
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The Shameful Narcissist said:
It’s really sad the majority of challenges were against books portraying LGBTQ teens. Those are the books that are most needed and necessary. Something similar happened with YouTube. They tried to put restrictions on any video about LGBTQ issues so that younger viewers couldn’t see them. It makes me angry, because often that’s the only place queer youth can go for support 😡😥
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
It is sad. And you’ve shocked me about YouTube. I had no idea!
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The Shameful Narcissist said:
I heard about it a few months ago from the LGBTQ YouTubers I follow. I’m not sure what the status is of it right now
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mlbradford said:
“You don’t have to burn books to DESTROY A CULTURE. Just get people to stop reading them” – Ray Bradbury.
As soon as I saw this Post (fantastic as always, Kim!) this famous quote instantly came to mind
“Who do these people think they are?!” also sprang to mind
Cheers!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
One of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite authors Brad.☺️
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Jonathan Scott Griffin said:
I met Ray Bradbury. He was a down to earth man as well as being a literary genius.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Oh Wow! That must have been fantastic!😊
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Lashaan (Bookidote) said:
What the… At first I was like.. “Ah.. I don’t recognize any of these..” and then John Green’s book popped up and then Chuck Palahniuk’s book popped up.. and then so many other titles that I just couldn’t believe are challenged… I mean.. just Chuck Palahniuk alone being on this list ridiculous since almost all his books are extremely creative and twisted!! Thanks for sharing, Kim.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
And this is just the top ten!😒
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LisaDay said:
I love Bunnicula. Not a fan of banning books.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Poor Bunnicula. First he’s mistaken to be a vampire bunny and then he’s banned.😖
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Jonathan Scott Griffin said:
The problem with people who take upon themselves the mantle of moral crusaders so that they may ban certain books that they deem offensive to society is that many of them are under the false impression that almost everyone else does, or should, think the same way they do. Book banners think they are doing everyone a service by promulgating what books are appropriate vs. which ones are offensive. The conundrum with such a mentality is who decides what’s appropriate and what’s offensive when everyone has different sensitivities.
Some people may be irate at old literature that might be a bit racist towards different people, or sexist towards women. Others may shrug their shoulder and say, “yeah, it sucks, but that was the time period.” Some people may be offended by young adult novels in which teenagers talk about or engage in sexual activity. Others may point out, that’s how some teenagers are, and that they are grateful for the honesty in addressing such tough topics. Still, other people may not like a book for the religion it presents, whether it be Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, or even Satanism, thinking that such books are the products of delusional minds, who’s writings are only fit to be burned. Many will disagree with them, finding beauty and spirituality, or even opposing thought, in them. Some may not like the secular and atheistic themes of some books. Others may find them to be a breath of fresh air breaking down the walls of oppressive dogma. Some people may not like a book for the violence and brutality, while some may find it a healthy way to vent their anger or see such as integral to the story. Some books may be more benign, in which they only have talking animals and magic, and yet some people find the concept of talking animals and magic to still be offensive – I kid you not! The point is you can’t please everyone. Someone is always going to offended.
I would like to further elucidate my point about different groups of people taking offense at different subjects using the sitcom “The Simpsons.” Yes, I’m well aware that “The Simpsons” is a television show and not a book. But I think it’s a great analogy of how people can be offended over different subjects. There are conservative Christians who are offended over the way Christians are portrayed on the show. There are feminists who are irate over the way an episode made feminists look extreme and silly. There are East Indians who are offended over the cariacature of Apu. There are college students offended over the portrayal of social justice warriors in one episode. There are conservatives offended over the way the Republican party is attacked on the show. These same offenses, with people having different sensitivities, carries on to books, in which different books will offend different types of people.
That said, it’s fine to be offended. But it’s not fine to ban books. And yet I hear of some public librarians still banning and censoring books in this country, as well as governments in other countries straight out banning books. Whether they be public librarians of America, or governments of different countries, they do society a grave disservice by banning books. Taking a stand against book banning is more than just about the freedom to read. Rather it’s about the right for freedom of expression and thought. We can’t grow intellectually and emotionally as a society if thought is banned. But that’s what banning books does, it bans thoughts and hence dams our mental growth. It’s not to say that there aren’t books I don’t find disgusting and trashy, but competing ideas must be allowed on the public sphere so that truth can ultimately prevail. Books must not be banned.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Very well said Jonathan. There aren’t an circumstances under which a book should be banned.
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Quaintrelle said:
*Gasps* Harry Potter got challenged?! HOW DARE THEY.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Right?! I think J.K. Rowling is up there with Judy Blume, as being one of the most banned or challenged authors.😠
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