Thursday, September 26, 2019

Readers of Books


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Welcome to the September edition of Readers of Books. Please share what reading material you have acquired, read, abandoned, and/or recommend.  Don't read?  That's okay too.

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It's banned book week!
This week, libraries and schools around the United States celebrate the freedom to read and honor books that have been removed from library shelves and classrooms because a group or individual thinks the material is controversial in some way.  This month's post is dedicated to the books and authors whose material has been challenged.

Frequently challenged and banned books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Quiz Time!
How well do you know your banned books?
Take this banned books quiz put together by New York Public Library.

Extra credit:
What's your favorite banned book?

ICYMI:
Want to read a banned book?  Check out this reading list put together by Pen.org. [Pen America]
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Banned list of classics, complete with fun facts! [Literary Hub]
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Good to know I wasn't the only one who thought The Goldfinch was a hot mess! This article talks about how having a shit book turns into a shit movie.  Don't forget: this book won the Pulitzer. I'm still unhappy about that. [Vox]


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Anyone use Goodreads anymore?  Apparently Amazon has all but destroyed it, attracting "an audience of people with insanely bland and entry-level taste" [OneZero]  h/t Nerfy :)
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Retail therapy for readers. Bookish tech accessories. [Book Riot]

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Best sellers this month:
Courtesy of NYT.
1.The Institute by Stephen King
2.The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
3.Where the Crawdad Sing by Delia Owens

Courtesy of Publisher's Weekly

1.The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
2.The Institute by Stephen King
3.Talking to Strangers: What we should know about the people we don't know by Malcolm Gladwell


Happy reading, WoTers!

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