tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29370872.post26823944932229917..comments2024-03-24T13:45:25.132-05:00Comments on Bookfoolery : Monday Malarkey - Arrivals and reads, drawing winner, lingering thoughts on banned booksBookfoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247136634069540446noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29370872.post-10769528730677862862014-09-29T13:58:10.698-05:002014-09-29T13:58:10.698-05:00There have been some very bizarre challenges to bo...There have been some very bizarre challenges to books. I agree with you that the most-challenged books often perplex me. "Harry Potter might turn kids into witches," for example, is a claim I consider patently ridiculous. I always feel like drawing the attention of such people to Harry's strength of character. <br /><br />Yep, I've found some books that I think are a lot worse, content-wise, than those I've known to be banned. I just hoped my kids wouldn't read them. Had they done so, though, I would have told them why certain parts were disturbing to me. Having grown up with parents who were super-conservative and clearly talked around sensitive topics that embarrassed them, I deliberately made it clear to my kids that they could come to me to talk about anything. <br /><br />I don't think it's hypocritical to want to keep some things from our kids. And, yet, sometimes you just can't. Better to talk with them about your personal ideology and why you're on one side, the other, or fall into the gray area of indecision than to let them read hard subjects and have to figure them out entirely on their own and without injection of your beliefs (or, sometimes worse, discuss with friends who know as little as they do).Bookfoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247136634069540446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29370872.post-71911167453687996812014-09-29T13:32:57.017-05:002014-09-29T13:32:57.017-05:00Except the Murakami? :) I don't know if my li...Except the Murakami? :) I don't know if my library system even has ebooks available, yet. Our old library did not have ebooks or graphic novels (and most of the books that interested me, hence my immense personal library). <br /><br />Scalzi is brilliant but I closed Lock In thinking it was the most disappointing of his books that I've read. I've decided I'm going to go back to his earlier books, in the future. I'll be looking forward to hearing your thoughts about Lock In. Michele loved it but I'm not a big fan of mysteries, so that may have been part of my problem. Bookfoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247136634069540446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29370872.post-19941497826752134362014-09-29T12:56:45.121-05:002014-09-29T12:56:45.121-05:00I haven't received any books in a really long ...I haven't received any books in a really long time. Instead, I have been hitting up the library ebooks. Of course, I don't get them before they are released but then again, I feel no pressure to read them right away which is kind of nice. I just downloaded Lock In which will be my first Scalzi book. I've heard he's pretty good so I am looking forward to it. Tihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00926060806244061354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29370872.post-40429465103565952862014-09-29T12:51:46.314-05:002014-09-29T12:51:46.314-05:00Interesting insight into banned books. I always ha...Interesting insight into banned books. I always have to confront the problem that, while I generally have disagreed with the books I've seen banned, there are probably some out there that I wouldn't want on the shelf for kids, either. <br /><br />Hate to be a hypocrite, but life, as we well know, isn't all one way or the other. Decisions come down to taste, opinion, ideology (!), etc.<br />Jeanine H.noreply@blogger.com