It’s the 30th anniversary for Banned Books Week this week—time to celebrate your favorite banned and challenged books. At Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, MT, they’re discounting a different banned book each day this week. Today it’s Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which was the fifth most challenged book of 2011, according …
We love watching the videos that Beach Books (Seaside, OR) has posted with friends of the store reading from banned books. Among them, a Seaside High School teacher reads from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; a Seaside librarian reads from One Hundred Years of Solitude; Beach Books’ owner Karen Emmerling reads from …
The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week is September 24 through October 1, and they’ve got a neat way for anyone, anywhere to participate this year—what they’re calling a virtual read-out. All you have to do is film yourself reading from your favorite banned book and post it on this YouTube channel. The booksellers at …
