Banned Books Week

[dudemom_2000]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bamajenny12" 
<BamaJenny12 at y...> wrote:
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Belinda 
>   To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:18 AM
>   Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Banned Books Week
> 
> 
>   Sept. 25 - Oct. 1 is Banned Books Week
> 
>   Here is a link to the ALA Banned and Challenged books page.
>   
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challenge
dbanned.htm
> 
>   Scroll down and peruse the lists of most challenged authors and 
>   books.  Jo is in good company, don't you think?  How many of you 
>   recognize titles or authors there?  How many of you were changed 
by reading their works?  As a pre-teen girl Judy Blume's book "Are 
You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" made a difference in my life, and 
has for countless others.  Imagine if you were denied the chance to 
know about these books?
> 
>   To Kill A Mockingbird?!?!?!? What could any one possibly find
>   wrong with that book? And the movie still makes me cry every
>   time I watch it.
>   Jenny
> 
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Frightening that people are ignorant enough to want to force others 
to do their will - sort of an American Taliban don't you think?  If 
you don't want your children or yourselves to read those books then 
don't! - it is all a matter of choice. But for the rest of us who DO 
want to read them I say to these people: Mind Your Own Business!

For me, many of those books were great stories and the rest, well, I 
guess I have just increased my must read list!

Dudemom_2000

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They let me out of the barn and I ain't going back!