Posts tagged Banned Books

powells:

Neverwhere was removed from Alamogordo High School’s reading list because a student complained that it had an R-rated scene. The heavily criticized removal was later revoked after a school board review.

Browse our collection of Banned Books.

8 years ago
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

William Faulkner

(from As I Lay Dying. In 1986 the book was banned after a mother read the novel, initially given to her child for a school assignment, and determined that it was “secular humanism.” She contacted the school body soon after demanding that “protection from Faulkner’s dangerous novel” be required for all students. It was banned one month later.)

Banned Books Week

(via thatlitsite)

9 years ago
prettybooks: “ It’s Banned Books Week! I think I speak for all of us when I say that challenging or banning books just makes us want to read them more. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week so far on the subject of books and censorship: “ Banned...
prettybooks: “ It’s Banned Books Week! I think I speak for all of us when I say that challenging or banning books just makes us want to read them more. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week so far on the subject of books and censorship: “ Banned...
prettybooks: “ It’s Banned Books Week! I think I speak for all of us when I say that challenging or banning books just makes us want to read them more. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week so far on the subject of books and censorship: “ Banned...

prettybooks:

It’s Banned Books Week!
I think I speak for all of us when I say that challenging or banning books just makes us want to read them more. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week so far on the subject of books and censorship:

9 years ago

jubilantics:

zirschnitz:

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. — Alfred Whitney Griswald

Banned Books Mugshots: Alaska Young (Looking for Alaska), Janie Crawford (Their Eyes Were Watching God), Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye), Harry Potter (Harry Potter), and Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter).

Banned Books Week is September 22 - 28! Visit Banned Books Week’s site or the American Library Association’s banned books page for more information!

10 years ago
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