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Read4life
The Giver | Lois Lowry
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I read banned books… and I loved them all! All rereads. I read The Giver every year and this year I added a few other banned books.
#bannedbookweek
#BookSpinBingo #Scarathlon #TeamCreepinItReal

JenReadsAlot All great books! 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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Sharpeipup
Saga, Vol. 1 | Brian K. Vaughan
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Reason challenged: Sexual content, anti-family, nudity, offensive language, and unsuited for age group.

#bannedbookweek #graphicnovel

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Cinfhen
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison
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Another book that seems fitting to read for #BannedBooks #TitlesAndTunes #Blues
#LetFreedomRead #BannedBookWeek

@BarbaraBB please add Beautiful Scars by Merry Clayton to our playlist

BarbaraBB I will! And I‘ll share it later today! 7mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 6mo
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Sharpeipup
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How timely for my library hold to finally come during #bannedbookweek

LibrarianRyan Yeahh. I really liked this book. 7mo
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TheBookHippie
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TheBookHippie
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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@AllDebooks this counts for #bannedbookweek too!

I have one copy left of this - it goes to teens often as it‘s banned out of most school libraries- and have a new shiny one on my wishlist I‘m trying not to buy myself 🙃 I‘m excited for the #Rereadtheclassics #buddyread #scarathon
Some how classic literature doesn‘t affect me in this genre 🤷🏻‍♀️🙃😅🖤 I love this and Frankenstein quite a bit.

dabbe #ditto! 🧡🎃🧡 7mo
AllDebooks Me too, 2 of my favourite classics 🖤 7mo
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megnews
Untitled | Unknown
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This. This sums up how I feel about book banning. #BannedBookWeek

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Cinfhen
Lawn Boy | Jonathan Evison
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#BannedBookWeek
I‘m 99.99% sure I stacked this book years ago based on a #RecFromReggie @Reggie 🥰🙌🏻
Excited to FINALLY get around to it
#Hoopla

Reggie I saw the list of most challenged books this year and I‘m shocked this is even on there. Shocked. 😮 2y
Christy2318 I personally know woman who protested this book being in an 11th grade classroom library & filed obscenity report with police about it. She sparked a lot of what Evison had to deal with in the last year. She called him a “pedophil”. Her spelling not mine. She stopped speaking to me when I posted my own opinion about the book on my personal FB page without mentioning her. Now she is running for the school board. 2y
Cinfhen OMG! That‘s insane @Christy2318 !!! I agree @Reggie so far I haven‘t come across anything that I felt was inappropriate or certainly crossing lines!! Wow!! I‘m speechless- filing an obscenity report seems EXTREME 2y
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Christy2318 My son says she is on a power trip. We weren‘t really close friends but our kids are and I was surprised when she went off about this and other books. After all this, I‘ve found that she is homophobic & racist given comments she has made although she would be appalled if someone told her she was. It‘s a great book & very appropriate as optional reading for older teens. I need to read more Evison. @Reggie 2y
Christy2318 @Cinfhen It was very extreme and she went viral. Yesterday we had drama in our neighborhood FB group because she posted You Tube video there in her invite to people to come to her campaign meet & greet. She is quite proud of herself as “that mom”! 2y
Cinfhen I hope she‘s not getting too much local support @Christy2318 2y
Christy2318 I hope not but local election turn out is always so low that I worry only the extremists will show up. 2y
Reggie @Christy2318 there was a woman in Texas with the same profile and her son had to out her on Twitter because he is gay and her and her husband turned their backs on him. Effin hypocrites. 2y
Christy2318 @Reggie Apparently the mom I know told her kids she would send them to conversion therapy if they said they were gay. I don‘t understand these parents. 2y
Reggie @Christy2318 the fear is too much with these people. 2y
Reggie Also if you have Tubi there is this old indie gay movie called Latter Days. It‘s low budget but I really like it. @Christy2318 2y
Christy2318 @Reggie And I‘m down the Tubi rabbit hole! Lots of stuff I haven‘t seen or want to rewatch on there. Thanks for the tip about Latter Days. 2y
Chelsea.Poole @Christy2318 you should run for school board too!! 2y
Cinfhen @Chelsea.Poole is right !!! You should run @Christy2318 !!!!! And I agree @Reggie those type of people are such hypocrites- they are the most sanctimonious, evil hearted group. Ugh!! 2y
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Zoe-h
And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell
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Read a little late for #BannedBookWeek

Challenge for- and these are all direct quotes from the ALA- being anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and for being unsuited for age group.

Such a cute picture book! Roy and Silo are a penguin couple at a New York zoo. One day, another penguin couple had an extra egg, so the zoo keeper decided to give it to Roy and Silo so they could raise her. 5🌟

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Zoe-h
Two Boys Kissing | David Levithan
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Bailedbailed

#BannedBookWeek

Challenged and burned for including LGBTQIA+ content and being “sexually explicit”.

I wanted to love this book, I really did. But there were far too many characters and it had a weird writing style where the narrator talked to the reader in a collective we, as though they were watching the story unfold. It was also a bit of a downer.