Tag Archives: Laurie Halse Anderson
Subway Literature: Challenging the Challenge (Part Three), being my thoughts on Speak
It took me a little while to cool down after I read Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. This was for a couple of reasons. The first was that Speak is the kind of book that makes you stop cold in your tracks. The second is that, several weeks after reading Wesley Scroggins’ op ed piece calling Speak (among other books) filthy and verging on soft-core porn, my anger had pretty much died down. Reading Speak with his comments in the back [...]
Subversive Reading! Awesome!
It’s Banned Books Week! Wooohooo! Because I do like the fact that we take a week to discuss banned and challenged books, here goes me. I thought I’d pick a few frequently banned or challenged books that I haven’t read before and see what the horror is all about. Results to come in a Subway Literature post next week. My first stop was to the American Library Association’s Banned and Challenged Books resource pages. There’s a great little section where you [...]
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