"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
“It was true that our hearts were swollen, our muscles were failing, our kidneys, stomachs, and other internal organs were not doing their jobs properly, our blood was too thick and ready to spawn embolisms, our red blood cells were doing without the oxygen they needed, and our brains were oxygen starved and running like […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News: “Whether or not patterns like this are the result of co-ordination between would-be censors across the country is impossible to say. But there are moments, when a half-dozen or so challenges regarding race or LGBT content hit within […]
Transatlantic Colum McCann Two Englishmen fly the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919. Fredrick Douglass, a slave turned abolition activist, tours Ireland in the mid-1800s. A maid who works for the family who hosted Douglass emigrates to the United States during the famine. A retired US senator flies back and forth between the US […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News: Don’t know how I managed to miss it all these years, but last night I finally caught South Park’s banned book episode, the one where the kids are at first excited to read The Catcher in the Rye, […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News: Fascinating discussion about the key figures involved in comic book censorship in the 1950s. “Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page; when one does run, a correction is published … […]
She is about to add, “I have scars, inside me,” but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she’d have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News & Commentary: Happy news from Sierra Vista, Arizona: Dreaming in Cuban, mentioned in my last YCRT! post, will not be banned after all. Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere removed from Alamogordo NM high school after parental complaint. Cave-in message from the […]
Amazon-Owned Goodreads Deleting Reviews Wholesale. So reads the scare headline at Making Light. I joined Goodreads three years ago. I’d been using a shitty online book application called Visual Bookshelf to catalog books I’d read and reviews I’d written. I’ve been delighted with Goodreads, a large, active community of readers, writers, and reviewers, and to date […]