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Subway Literature: Challenging the Challenge (Part One), being some comments about The Chocolate War
Last week, inspired by the great discussions about banned books that were taking place out there on the intertubes, I decided it was time to read me some subversive literature. I picked three titles, one from the ALA’s top ten lists of banned and challenged books and two from an op ed piece written the week before that really ticked me off. Today I read the first of my picks, The Chocolate War. Now my head hurts worse than it [...]
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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