You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: The House of the Spirits
I hope Fox News and the politically-motivated book banning mob they’re whipping up take a wrong turn and march right off a cliff.
Paul’s Book Reviews: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir, Mystery
“Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, dear man. In an imperfect world, I fear it’s the best we can manage.” — A Delicate Truth, John le Carré A Delicate Truth John le Carré John le Carré is in his 80s and still writing spy thrillers that are as contemporary and up to […]
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: I Hunt Killers
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News: The current textbooks being used in public schools today, that your children are reading, memorizing and being tested on, are inaccurate, revisionist, anti-American, racist, climate change propaganda based on fake science, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, pro-Islam, Marxist, globalist, pro-Socialism/Communism, pro-homosexuality, […]
Paul’s Book Reviews: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Nonfiction
“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! Banned Book Review: The Collector
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 […]
Paul’s Book Reviews: Fiction, Fantasy, YA, SF
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! Banned Book Review Lookback: The Color Purple
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! Banned Book Review Lookback: Slaughterhouse-Five
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 … […]