You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes is a young adult novel about a school shooting, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath.
Paul’s Book Reviews: My Top Reads, 2024
This has been a good year for reading, maybe not as good as the Covid year or the two that followed, but still pretty good. In my case, it included some great re-reads, notably the two Michael Chabon masterpieces included in this end-of-year post. Not included here, but also revisited in 2024: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx […]
You Can’t Read That! Banned Books Week 2024
It’s the first day of Banned Books Week 2024 and I owe you all a new You Can’t Read That! post.
Paul’s Book Reviews
Six short book reviews: espionage, horror, science fiction, dystopian fiction, mystery-thriller, and a potential banned book.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: The 57 Bus
The 57 Bus is young adult non-fiction. The narrative, in true crime tradition, opens with a brutal act, the intentional burning of one teenager by another on a cross-town bus in Oakland, California.
Paul’s Book Reviews
Six short book reviews: fiction, nonfiction, mystery, science fiction, thriller/espionage
You Can’t Read That! Banned Books Week
October is Banned Books Month. The first week, October 1-7, is Banned Books Week. Am I sensing a theme here? I started the first day of Banned Books Week with a New York Times op-ed titled This Is Why I Hate Banned Books Week, a recap of the tired talking points book banners spew forth […]
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Tricks
Tricks, the 98th most-banned book in the USA between the years 2010 and 2019, jumped to 3rd place in 2022, a year when book challenges, censorship, and bannings mounted at a unprecedented pace.