tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10292815.post7478500886911662639..comments2023-11-05T04:21:08.093-08:00Comments on I Was Just Thinking: Go read a (banned) book today...littlemissattitudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826943351455750612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10292815.post-44992657060699934462011-09-28T09:04:22.620-07:002011-09-28T09:04:22.620-07:00That should have read that whether or not I post a...That should have read that whether or not I post a follow-up discussing the statistics today depends on how I feel as the day progresses. I really am feeling better, but it's still early and apparently not all my neurons are awake yet. :Dlittlemissattitudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826943351455750612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10292815.post-23029686764050560242011-09-28T09:02:51.510-07:002011-09-28T09:02:51.510-07:00I can't remember the exact numbers, but when I...I can't remember the exact numbers, but when I was looking at statistics over on the American Library Association website yesterday, I saw that there have been enough challenges to books in prison libraries to register in the statistics.<br /><br />I had been hoping to write more about the statistics from the past two decades about where most books are challenged (in schools and school libraries) and who makes the most challenges to books (parents make the most challenges, by far), and why (the most challenges, predictably, revolve around issues regarding sexuality and language viewed as obscene) but I've got whatever cold is going around and I just posted this and went to bed instead. It depends on whether my sore throat and headache from yesterday stay away. So far, so good, but we'll see.littlemissattitudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826943351455750612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10292815.post-84028680960072956432011-09-28T06:00:55.861-07:002011-09-28T06:00:55.861-07:00On that note, I read about a prisoner who had a bo...On that note, I read about a prisoner who had a book confiscated because the administration thought it would be inflammatory and incite a riot. It was something about the New Slavery.McMGrad89https://www.blogger.com/profile/01724953414601437820noreply@blogger.com