Banned Books Week
Some excellent suggestions of things you can do — quite a list, actually — including:
GIVE away a banned book! Parents and students from the Goochland High School in Goochland, Virginia, were offered free copies of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot after the school board banned it. The bookstore, Volume I, created a front window display featuring Salem’s Lot and twenty other banned books. The Richmond Times-Dispatch published a photograph of the display and interviewed the bookstore owner. In the first week, twenty-two copies were given away.
Okay, sure. It ends tomorrow. Guess that means we’ll all just have to keep bringing attention to this after the week’s over…!
Via BoingBoing.
Comments:
So a school board says they don’t want a horror novel in the school library and the community turn out for a loud vote of no confidence by giving the book away? Seems to me the respect for authority is more important than a protest that amounts to “But I like that book.”
“Seems to me the respect for authority is more important than a protest …”
Yikes!