I’ll be adding these books to my TBR. As an English professor and a former school librarian, I am so deeply troubled by the recent onslaught against libraries and librarians, as well as the move to ban books.
The censorship excuses used in book publishing in the past would eventually filter down to film, television and the Internet, setting the boundaries of creative freedoms and limitations there.
Whenever I mail a book, the postal clerk asks me, "Is there anything fragile, liquid, perishable, or dangerous inside?" Every time I want to say, "Of course this book is dangerous. It could change the reader's mind. It's dangerous, but it's good." But I figure that little bit of wisdom would not help get the book mailed.
I’ll be adding these books to my TBR. As an English professor and a former school librarian, I am so deeply troubled by the recent onslaught against libraries and librarians, as well as the move to ban books.
I'm with you. Totally pointless and destructive.
The censorship excuses used in book publishing in the past would eventually filter down to film, television and the Internet, setting the boundaries of creative freedoms and limitations there.
Pretty much agree. Speech codes serve no one—and they tend to spread.
Unless, as shown last night, their political authority becomes limited.
It just keeps swinging back-and-forth. All these clowns come and go and come again.
I know. Canada is the same way.
Whenever I mail a book, the postal clerk asks me, "Is there anything fragile, liquid, perishable, or dangerous inside?" Every time I want to say, "Of course this book is dangerous. It could change the reader's mind. It's dangerous, but it's good." But I figure that little bit of wisdom would not help get the book mailed.
Larry, that’s perfect.
Conformity ≠ diversity. Give us this day our daily contradictions. 🙏
Amen.