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What happens when you ban freedom?

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook

January 28, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Banned Book Club is an interesting book. At first, I was not sure I liked or understood it. Yet, once I got deeper into it, I realized what was going on. I did wonder if this was based on anyone’s experiences, or a general look at the time. It is both. It is based on Kim Hyun Sook’s experiences and several experiences of others pulled into one story to protect those involved. Ko Hyung-Ju and Ryan Estrada due their parts to bring this graphic novel […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: banned books, book clubs, Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, reading/books, Ryan Estrada, South Korea

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:51 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: banned books, book clubs, Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, reading/books, Ryan Estrada, South Korea ·
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This One Time, at Banned Camp…

October 2, 2020 by Emmalita 28 Comments

It’s Banned Books Week, the American Library Association’s yearly event to spotlight attempts at censorship. If you have a censorship story to tell, we want to hear it. I come from a bookish people. My parents didn’t restrict my reading in any way and until I hit my tweens, I had never come across the concept of a book being “inappropriate.” At 12, I read well above my age group, within my age group, and was also a big fan of Clifford the Big Red […]

Filed Under: News from MsWas Tagged With: #BannedBooksWeek, banned books, CBR Diversions

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: #BannedBooksWeek, banned books, CBR Diversions ·
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“Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.”

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

February 8, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

There is something particularly powerful about reading someone’s accounting of their dogged pursual of truth, of what is right, of what matters and we are treated to just that in Catch and Kill. In his second book Ronan Farrow reckons with the institutional powers and societal inequities that create the sort of stories he’s worked on reporting for the past few years at The New Yorker. Part memoir, part investigative report, Catch and Kill is an imminently fast read, jumping from one unbelievable if it […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: banned book, banned books, Catch and Kill, challenged book, faintingviolet, Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporting, me too, Ronan Farrow

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: banned book, banned books, Catch and Kill, challenged book, faintingviolet, Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporting, me too, Ronan Farrow ·
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Bingo #3 With a Banned Short Story

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

October 29, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In a bit of bingo logistics, I decided a couple short stories might be in order to fill in as many remaining squares as I could. With that in mind I went down the list of things I’ve been meaning to read anyway and came across “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson which has quite the history of making people question its place in front of readers at all. What I didn’t know was just how short it really is – its only 3,773 words long! […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: banned books, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Shirley Jackson, short story, The Lottery

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: banned books, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Shirley Jackson, short story, The Lottery ·
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First Love and Losing Faith

Blankets by Craig Thompson

October 23, 2019 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo Square: Banned Books I remember reading Blankets a number of years ago, and if I recall correctly, I liked certain aspects but didn’t love it. But having a copy on my shelves, I decided to re-visit it for my Banned Books square, after learning that both this novel and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home were challenged and subsequently removed from the public library in Marshall, Missouri, after complaints that the novels were “pornographic” and might be read by children. This began a series of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: banned books, cbr11bingo, Craig Thompson

Lisa Bee's CBR11 Review No:35 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: banned books, cbr11bingo, Craig Thompson ·
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Why was this so popular? I don’t get it.

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

October 16, 2019 by crystalclear 1 Comment

This seems to be a book that everyone in a certain age bracket has read.  A lot of people have read it, don’t get me wrong, but it seems that every woman over 50 I’ve talked to remembers reading it close to when it came out.  It was a big deal. It has multiple movie adaptations. And I can’t really see why. Maybe it’s for the nostalgia. While shelved in the adult section now, it was kind of a YA hit when it came out, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: banned books, cbr11, cbr11bingo, V.C. Andrews, Why was this so popular?

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:56 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: banned books, cbr11, cbr11bingo, V.C. Andrews, Why was this so popular? ·
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