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WHO BANS BOOKS?!
I might be a little late to the game. But, Iâm just now reading about this.... Why are the books that essentially shaped multiple generations getting banned? They wonder why kids now are so dense and self centered. Such a shame. I devoured Animal Farm, 1984, Cather in the Rye, and so many others on that list more than several times. I read most of these for the first time at a really young age and had a college age reading level by 6th grade. If pretty much every book that was required to be read as I was going up, basically banned at this point, what are they even reading?! What's even left?!
#QOTD: Do you have any reading goals for 2020? #AOTD: Iâve set my reading goal at 30 books again on Goodreads, even though I didnât manage it in 2019 đ I also want to read more books than I buy! Iâm more dedicated to this goal, and even have a whole spreadsheet ready to keep track (so far Iâve bought 2 and read 0 đ ) And my last goal is to read more childrenâs classics! I own a lot of them but most Iâve never read, so I want to rectify that!âš #childrenofbloodandbone #tomiadeyemi #henryholt #bookcover #bookcoverart #yalit #yabooks #yabookstagrammer #yafantasy #bookgoals #bookgoals2020 #readinggoals #readinggoals2020 #bookban #booksbooksbooks #bookdragon https://www.instagram.com/p/B7HDxRqguyy/?igshid=1ltywxlla6tnb
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March's Favorite Book: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Every month, I share one of my favorite books with you! This month is probably the most influential book on my life - Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz, illustrations by Stephen Gammell. These books made me want to write, to draw, to tell ghost stories. We would put on plays of stories from these books in the front yard for the neighbors. If you did just-okay, you could use the 25 cent admission to buy everyone a Flintstones Push Pop. If you did really well, everyone could get a pint of Blue Bell Ice Cream or a calzone from Angelo's Pizza. Putting on those plays made us eventually make low budget horror films as adults and shaped so many good times and important friendships that make up some of the best times of my life.Â
These books not only show diverse folklore from around the world, and do so in a super digestible way, but the drawings by Gammell will change your life. I think, at least speaking for us Satanic Panic pressure cooked Millennials, something magical reached through the empty eye sockets of the charcoal drawings and rooted itself in our DNA. The positive impact these books had on me is a good example of why we should fight book bans, and let our kids explore safe but scary (or queer or feminist, etc) subject matters so we can become fully realized and creative adults. I have so much gratitude for these books and what they've done for meÂ
Do you have a favorite Scary Story To Tell In The Dark?
Courting Mistrust: What the NCERT Book Ban Reveals About Transparency and Trust
In a democracy, institutions derive their legitimacy not merely from constitutional authority, but from public trust. That trust, however, is fragileâbuilt slowly through transparency and accountability, yet easily eroded by opacity and overreach. A recent controversy surrounding the removal of a section from an NCERT Class VIII social science textbook brings this tension into sharp focus, raising deeper questions about how institutions engage with criticism, dissent, and public discourse.
Why Banning Classic Books Is Like Trying to Cage a Hurricane With a Wet Paper Towel
Book banning: the favorite hobby of control freaks and scaredy-cats who think the worldâs too raw, too real, too alive for their delicate sensibilities. They want to scrub out the classicsâthe messy, bloody, beautifully weird books that actually tell us something about life, death, love, and apocalypse. Spoiler: banning them doesnât erase their power. It just makes you look scared as hell.
Take Charles Dickens. Dude throws ghosts at you like Halloweenâs never-ending party, with endings that do a chaotic dance between redemption and âholy crap, what just happened?â Banning Dickens because of ghosts? Might as well ban electricity because you might get shocked. Spoiler alert: lifeâs a shock.
Then thereâs Sleepy Hollowâa story with a headless horseman slicing through the night like your worst nightmare on steroids. âToo bloody for kids!â Yeah, well, life isnât a Disney Channel special, sweetie. Fairy tales used to be grim, gritty warnings, not sanitized bedtime lullabies.
Einsteinâs Theory of Relativity? The science that bent time, space, and your brain? Yeah, it ruffled some feathers because it refuses to bow to literal Bible readings. But without it, no GPS, no nukes, no cosmic mind trips. Trying to ban that? Itâs like closing your eyes and yelling, âI donât see the problem!â Spoiler: the universe doesnât care.
The Hardy Boys â those teenage mystery solvers with the kind of bromance that raises eyebrows. Read the series again; youâll see the subtext hanging there like a neon sign. Scared of a little homoerotic tension in a boysâ club? Maybe itâs time to check your closetâor your assumptions.
Now, Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy â where a computer builds a computer to find the meaning of life (spoiler: itâs 42), dolphins outsmart humans, mice run cosmic experiments, and a religion based on sneezing somehow makes sense. Itâs chaos wrapped in cosmic sarcasm, and yes, it will poke holes in your neat little worldview. Ban it? Only if youâre afraid the universe might laugh at you.
Edgar Allan Poe was the OG nightmare fuel. Tales so dark they offend both the pious Pentecostals and snake charmers alike. Trying to silence Poe is like trying to cage a ravenâheâll just fly back with a scream and a shadow.
The Grapes of Wrath gets a bad rap from the folks who prefer musicals over misery. But Steinbeckâs brutal honesty about human suffering and injustice punches harder than any feel-good show tune. Deny it all you want, but real pain doesnât vanish with a catchy chorus.
Grimmâs Fairy Tales? Kid-baking ovens, murderous stepmothers, and no happily-ever-afters to sugarcoat the misery. These stories werenât meant to soothe; they were meant to scare you straight. Banning them is rewriting childhood as a Hallmark movieâand nobodyâs buying that.
And finally, the Holy Bibleâan epic anthology stuffed with miracles, massacres, love, wrath, and apocalypse. Itâs terrified children and comforted millions across millennia. Pick your edition, but all versions will give you the creeps and the hope.
Ban these books, and you donât just silence storiesâyou silence thinking. You cage the wild, messy, beautiful storm that is storytelling. You say, âSorry, reality is too complicated for you.â
Newsflash: Stories are hurricanes. You canât cage them with a wet paper towel. You either learn to dance in the rain or get swept away.