"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Reviews of subversive literature
Wake Now in the Fire is about book banning and student protests, sensitive subjects on the right. While the book itself hasn’t been banned or challenged, it certainly could be, and I expect that somehow, somewhere, forces of darkness are mobilizing against it. It feels like a banned book, it looks like a banned book, and it reads like a banned book. Therefore I review it as such.
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning and censorship. YCRT! features news and opinion roundups, commentary, history, and reviews.
Our back yard bird feeder cam has issues. It’ll stop recording, but since the same birds trigger the camera over and over again, it’ll be a while before I realize the videos are a few days old. To get it working again, I have to go out back with my iPad, put it and the […]
I saw the most recent “top ten” (actually eleven) list of challenged and targeted books in America and realized the title in the number one position, Patricia McCormick’s Sold, was one I’d not heard of before. Since my library had a copy, I decided to read and review it.
But they can’t control what the civilian press covers, can they?
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning and censorship. YCRT! features news and opinion roundups, commentary, history, and reviews.
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning and censorship. YCRT! features news and opinion roundups, commentary, history, and reviews.
I hope this short book remains as popular with pre-teen girls as everyone says it is.