I counted up the banned book reviews I’ve published here and the current total is 69. Thought I’d get that milestone down in print before I finish ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (being challenged and banned in school districts around the country for bestiality, teabagger code for “having a homosexual character”) and push the total to 70.<\/p>\n
I’m thinking about adding a banned book review index to the top of the blog, next to the ones for Air-Minded and Hash House Harrier posts. That way readers can see all the titles at once and click on the ones that interest them. Building indexes is a fair bit of work, though, and since my reviews are also on Goodreads, this link<\/a><\/strong> will serve the purpose for now.<\/p>\n Did I mention being born on October 31st? Why Hallowe’en isn’t a national holiday is beyond me. Speaking of holidays, I didn’t remember Monday was Indigenous Peoples Day until around one in the afternoon, and didn’t realize anyone was still mad about it replacing Columbus Day until around three, when I saw an angry post on TikTok. Columbus, at least in the circles I run with, turns out to be an easy historical figure to forget, genocidal slaver that he was.<\/p>\n Back to banned books for a moment, you really should read the first chapter of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” titled\u00a0Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress<\/a><\/strong>. It’s the best argument for replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day I know of.<\/p>\n