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It's Banned Books Week once again, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of people celebrating the freedom to read.
Over at the ALA's Banned Books Week website is a ton of information about banned and challenged books, in-person and virtual BBW events, and free downloads. I've been reading their stats on the number of challenges by year, reason, and initiator, and it's pretty interesting. Did you know that by far, the most common initiator of a challenge is a parent? And the most common reason for the challenge is content considered sexually explicit? All of the stats are available here, in easy-to-peruse graph form. (I love me some graphs.)
Are you reading any banned or challenged books this week? What's your favorite banned book?
8 comments:
I've been reading On the Road for about two weeks now - I'm sure that's probably on the list. Only about 90 pages to go!!!
I love TWENTY BOY SUMMER. It's so much deeper than its title and cover suggest. And the romance... Lovely.
I think the last banned book I read was THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER which, of course, I adored. Now I just need to see the movie!
I'm away from home right now and don't have any banned books handy, but I think this is a great idea! I've been meaning to read THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER for some time now, so that would have been a good one to get my hands on. And I really think I need to read it before I watch the movie. :)
The Perks of Being A Wallflower is one of my favourites. :) And I want to see the film.
Interesting take on Banned Books week--with the stats. New follower by the way, found you through Katy's blog. :)
I love TBS. I read it this summer for the first time and I was in awe....how did I not read it before? LOL!! I hope you enjoy it
Happy Banned Books week! I don't have a favorite banned book but I do annoy my FB friends by writing a banned book fact a day ;-) Hehehe
I also saw you got tagged in the The Next Big Thing meme...can't wait to hear about what you are writing, Rebecca. :-) I also got tagged (posted on Monday). Anyway happy banned books week and i hope you enjoy the Twenty Boy Summer!
I very much enjoyed Twenty Boy Summer and I hope you do too! My favorite banned book - The Hunger Games. And The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Anything Ellen Hopkins. SO MANY.
I read Twenty Boy Summer during last year's Banned Book Week and loved it! So unfortunate that it's been banned in certain places.
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