Category: Banned Books

  • Book Review: Ulysses

    Book Review: Ulysses

    I appreciate Joyce’s technique and experiments with style. I found his echoes of, and connections to, other literary works rather fun. I, in turns, enjoyed Joyce’s cleverness and found that cleverness eye-rollingly overdone.

  • Reader Response: Ulysses

    Reader Response: Ulysses

    I look forward to doing a book review for Ulysses next, but a Reader Response based on my margin notes felt more appropriate given the nature of the work.  Okay so this may not be as bad as I remember I mean it’s just some dudes eating breakfast and borrowing money from each other and then…

  • This Year is Different

    This Year is Different

    We need to stop working from the assumption that people who express different opinions than ours are Super Bad Other Guys.

  • Censorship, Selection & Banned Books

    Censorship, Selection & Banned Books

    Banned Books Week kicked off yesterday. I love Banned Books Week. It is a whole week dedicated to awesome stuff like celebrating our freedom to read and highlighting our right to access diverse material of our own choosing at our school and public libraries. And, equally as awesome, it is a reminder of the guarantee…

  • Reading the Hard Stuff

    Reading the Hard Stuff

    We believe that free communication is essential to the preservation of a free society and a creative culture. -ALA’s The Freedom to Read Statement