Banned Books Week — 9/22/19–9/28/19
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The ULS: The Underground Library Society
In honor of Banned Books Week, I wanted to revisit this information. As the creator of the ULS, The Underground Library Society, and at the request of several followers, I have decided to put up lists of books that have been banned or challenged. If a book is challenged, that usually means there were people who wanted it removed from a school or library. Both are forms of book censorship. It is important to note that I am not focusing only on books banned or challenged in the United States of America; unfortunately, censorship is a world wide action.
Here is my initial list of banned and challenged books:
The entire Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling;
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee;
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain;
Beloved by Toni Morrison;
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie;
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger;
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck;
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque;
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; and
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
I will add more lists of banned and challenged books in the future.
And to all of you interested in joining the U.L.S., the Underground Library Society, please send me an email with a word doc, and write about the book you would choose to save if we lived in a world in which books are illegal. frenchc1955@yahoo.com
Reblogged this on The Inner Circle and commented:
I caught this on fellow blogger Charles French’s and it important enough to reblog here. The cheetah and I support and love books. No matter who wrote it….
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Thank you so much.
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Every single blogger should reblog this…..I’m going to my library and asking which books they have banned.
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Thank you, and yes, we should all let the world know about this.
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I thought we had freedom of speech. If we don’t want to read these books we don’t have to. I don’t like someone else deciding what I can read or say or think. Sure are a lot of good books on this list.
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I completely agree.
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This is so dishearteninng to see these literary Juggernuts banned from libraries.
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Yes, it is, and that is why we must all fight so hard to eliminate censorship and book banning.
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It boggles the mind that we’re still having to deal with this.😡
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Yes, it does!
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An interesting list of banned books, Charles. Did you get my email? I have been having some problems with our wifi.
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Hi Roberta, I did not get it. Can you try sending it again? frenchc1955@yahoo.com
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Will do, Charles.
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Thank you, and please let me know when you have.
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Hi Charles, I have sent another email.
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Hi Roberta, I received it, and I replied.
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Thanks Charles
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You are welcome.
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I did a similar post on Tuesday, and noted that even Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein had been banned at one point or another! To me, the banning of certain books is bigotry, pure and simple. I found that today, most books are banned or challenged for their references to or inclusion of LGBT people. How are our young people to grow into acceptance of those who may be a bit different, if we shelter them from those people? Sigh. Good post, Charles!
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Thank you so much.
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There is a growing and frightening movement in this country determined to suppress free speech. The first step in resisting this movement is to call it what it is, censorship.
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I agree completely.
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This is unbelievable, in there… why not easy to understand. Of course I support the freedom for books/writers… who wants to read whatever wants… should be. Thank you, Love, nia
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Nia, you are very welcome.
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All books on this list are masterpieces – banning them or just wanting to would be a great injustice to humankind.
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Sarah, I completely agree.
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Every book on this list is a treasure. Thank goodness for the U.L.S.
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Jennie, thank you!
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Thank YOU, Charles.
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Jennie, you are welcome.
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Reblogged this on Laughter Over Tears and commented:
My go-to for everything that’s happening these days: Handmaid’s Tale. Cue the scene where the Commander’s wife, Serena, has a finger cut off for suggesting that women should be allowed to read. Not trying to make this about the woman stuff. Just the fanatical, tunnel-visioned, fear-driven, despotic, small-minded, unaccepting, tyrannical, dim-witted, exclusionary, anti-creative, anti-thought, anti-love, anti-possibility ethos many have had to live with and that we will have to live with too, more than we already are, if things keep inching forward the way they are………
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Thank you so much!
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Amazed that Harry Potter was banned – presumably because of the references to witchcraft? Those who ban show their colours as suppressors of choice. My own favourite as a young man, Henry Miller, was banned all over the place. Thanks for flagging this topic up.
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You are very welcome, and thank you for the comment!
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Reblogged this on Schreiben als Hobby.
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Thank you so much!
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It is necessary and an interesting idea. So, I hope I can help with the reblogging to connenct 🙂
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Thank you so much.
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There a lot more books but the good new is…once a book is banned, it becomes extremely popular, so it’s not always a bad thing to be banned.
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That is a good point.
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