~~Banned Books Week (BBW) 2011 takes place September 24th-October 1st~~ Required reading. It is something every American high school student knows well. I am unaware how native language classes work in other countries, but English classes in America most often focus on reading over grammar–something I never liked. And if my own high school experience was [...]

~~Banned Books Week (BBW) 2011 takes place September 24th-October 1st~~ In August 2011, I listened to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee on audiobook. I admit that I did not read this American classic until I was 24. Not that I’m ashamed of that. It was required reading for my high school’s regular freshman English courses–I, [...]

As it is the ALA’s annual Banned Books Week this week, I stumbled upon an article at the Huffington Post website called “The 11 Most Surprising Banned Books“. As I was looking through these eleven books, I noticed I’ve read many of them, so I thought I’d do a little post about the ones I’ve [...]

Every year, the American Library Association (ALA) hosts what they call Banned Books Week. I honestly hadn’t thought about this year’s BBW until I read about the controversy over the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson for the second time in a week. (The first I heard about it was from Tina at One More [...]