To keep with my "real post" commitment, I'll remind you all it's Banned Books Week. Check out the list of 100 most frequently banned books of the 90s. How many have you read?
I've read 14 (4,5,7,13,22,37,41,47,56,70,77,83,84,97). Actually, number 97 (The View from the Cherry Tree) was read to us in 6th grade, but I'm counting it. Once again I find myself amazed that the public school system in Manistee was as non-repressive as it was--for a rural education, we could have had it a lot worse. I do remember one board member trying to pull The Catcher in the Rye (#13) from the cirriculum, and it not even getting to us protesting at the board meeting, as all the other board members laughed it off.
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I've read 5,6,7,13,22*,32*,41,47,51,52,56,69,70,84,85,96 which gives me 14-16 of them. I was surprised at how many were kid books, but I guess I shouldn't have been. They tried to ban "Alice on My Mind" in my school district they year after I graduated, so some students sued them.
*I think I've read these. Some of those Blume books run together.
I've read 31.5* of them. Should I list them? I'll list them: 5-9,12,13,18,21,23,31-33,37,38,41,43,47,
51,52,55,56,62,69-71,77,78,83,84,86,96
*I've only read the first three Harry Potter books.
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