Interesting choices…
Read banned books! If you’re in Utah, this now includes:
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
LOL wow, book #3 was like required reading for introverts when I was younger. What a shame.
Can’t say I’m that surprised about Wicked. People get drawn to it by the musicals and stay for the porn. LOL.
Porn? I got about halfway through the book when it first came out, and never finished it. I don’t recall much porn.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/book-wicked-gregory-maguire-explicit/
In a 2014 interview, he commented, “I deliberately included a ribald, unappealing sex scene in the first 10 pages so people would know it was not for children.”
Whoah, weird. I really don’t remember that at all. I may need to go and give it a reread. I wonder how much else I didn’t pay attention to.
Shitty legislation to empower the stupid to drag everyone down… Wait until they start to ban the gore and porn contained within science books!
I’m no US citizen but I think it underlines the importance for (US) parents that have the means to do it to build their very own personal library (or to make one together with other parents, maybe), filled with books they want their child to read without any self-proclaimed censor telling them what their kid can and cannot read. It also tells parents how important it should be to encourage their kids to read, as widely as possible… by example, by themselves spending time reading (instead of doomscrolling?).
Public libraries and school libraries are a wonderful place, even those that are under the control of absolute morons (polite version), but they should not be relied upon as the sole access to books. Ever. Even less so for kids.
