Sunday Bag o’ Books
I’m changing my reading habits, adding listening to my repertoire.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: This Book is Gay
“This Book Is Gay” is one of a number of young adult books targeted by right-wing culture warriors. They view it, along with other LGBTQ-themed books, as insidious pro-gay propaganda designed to lure girls and boys into deviant sex and transgenderism. This book, in particular, billed as an “instruction manual” for LGBTQ youth (see the quote from the publisher’s blurb, above), is firmly in their crosshairs.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
As to the challenges and bans taking place around the country as organized groups of reactionaries pretending to be parents disrupt school board meetings over “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” claiming it’s pornographic: no, it is anything but.
Paul’s Book Reviews
Seven short book reviews: fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, mysteries, thrillers, banned books.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: 33 Snowfish
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book news roundups, rants, and reviews.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: The Bluest Eye
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and culture war news roundups.
Paul’s Book Reviews
Seven short book reviews: fiction, science fiction, mysteries, memoirs, banned.
Paul’s Book Reviews: My Top Reads for 2018
This is going to be a short list. Looking back over the books I read in 2018, only three stand out—and by “stand out” I mean books I’d happily read again. Two are new, published this year or in late 2017; one is from 1998 but new to me. Two are mainstream fiction with historical […]