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#CannonBookClub September Book Club Announcement

June 10, 2022 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

Our September Book Club will be discussing Banned or Challenged Books on September 16-17, just ahead of Banned Book Week (September 18-24, 2022). Forty years ago, Banned Book Week began as a response to a sudden surge in book challenges in 1982. With the current push to limit access to books dealing with sexuality, gender identity, and race, we asked you what you wanted to read; and we’ve tallied up the votes for the top three. The books selected for our discussion come from a […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: All Boys Aren't Blue, Angie Thomas, banned books, book club, CannonBookClub, Challenged Books, George M. Johnson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, the hate u give

Genres: Book Club · Tags: All Boys Aren't Blue, Angie Thomas, banned books, book club, CannonBookClub, Challenged Books, George M. Johnson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, the hate u give ·
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Voting for September #CannonBookClub – Banned Books

May 27, 2022 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

For our September Book Club we’ll be discussing Banned or Challenged Books on September 16th – 17th just ahead of Banned Book Week (September 18-24, 2022). Our plan is to celebrate our freedom to read by reading a selection of challenged books for this discussion. We’ll be doing a ranked vote to narrow our selections down to three with an eventual Discussion Post for each. As usual I hope you find more than one interesting selection in our group below. Make sure you scroll all […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: banned books, CannonBookClub, Challenged Books, voting

Genres: Book Club · Tags: banned books, CannonBookClub, Challenged Books, voting ·
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What happens when you ban freedom?

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook

January 28, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Banned Book Club is an interesting book. At first, I was not sure I liked or understood it. Yet, once I got deeper into it, I realized what was going on. I did wonder if this was based on anyone’s experiences, or a general look at the time. It is both. It is based on Kim Hyun Sook’s experiences and several experiences of others pulled into one story to protect those involved. Ko Hyung-Ju and Ryan Estrada due their parts to bring this graphic novel […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: banned books, book clubs, Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, reading/books, Ryan Estrada, South Korea

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:51 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: banned books, book clubs, Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, reading/books, Ryan Estrada, South Korea ·
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This One Time, at Banned Camp…

October 2, 2020 by Emmalita 28 Comments

It’s Banned Books Week, the American Library Association’s yearly event to spotlight attempts at censorship. If you have a censorship story to tell, we want to hear it. I come from a bookish people. My parents didn’t restrict my reading in any way and until I hit my tweens, I had never come across the concept of a book being “inappropriate.” At 12, I read well above my age group, within my age group, and was also a big fan of Clifford the Big Red […]

Filed Under: News from MsWas Tagged With: #BannedBooksWeek, banned books, CBR Diversions

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: #BannedBooksWeek, banned books, CBR Diversions ·
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“Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.”

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

February 8, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

There is something particularly powerful about reading someone’s accounting of their dogged pursual of truth, of what is right, of what matters and we are treated to just that in Catch and Kill. In his second book Ronan Farrow reckons with the institutional powers and societal inequities that create the sort of stories he’s worked on reporting for the past few years at The New Yorker. Part memoir, part investigative report, Catch and Kill is an imminently fast read, jumping from one unbelievable if it […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: banned book, banned books, Catch and Kill, challenged book, faintingviolet, Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporting, me too, Ronan Farrow

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: banned book, banned books, Catch and Kill, challenged book, faintingviolet, Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporting, me too, Ronan Farrow ·
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Bingo #3 With a Banned Short Story

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

October 29, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In a bit of bingo logistics, I decided a couple short stories might be in order to fill in as many remaining squares as I could. With that in mind I went down the list of things I’ve been meaning to read anyway and came across “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson which has quite the history of making people question its place in front of readers at all. What I didn’t know was just how short it really is – its only 3,773 words long! […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: banned books, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Shirley Jackson, short story, The Lottery

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: banned books, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Shirley Jackson, short story, The Lottery ·
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