{"id":3661,"date":"2010-02-26T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:12:35","slug":"banned-book-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last year I challenged myself to catch up on a number of banned books<\/a> I missed while growing up.\u00a0 I’ve read and reviewed<\/a> 17 of the 18 books on my list, but there are many, many more . . . so many, in fact,\u00a0 I could keep making new lists of banned books to read from now until forever, and you know what?\u00a0 I probably will.\u00a0 Banned books are almost invariably good books, books that make you think . . . which is probably why they were banned in the first place.<\/p>\n

You never hear “banned in Boston” anymore; most of us assume book banning in the USA stopped sometime in the 1960s.\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 As I began to read and review banned books, I was astonished to learn that the forces of darkness are still<\/em> trying to ban or restrict access to these books.\u00a0 Would-be censors are everywhere, as active as ever, trying to stick their noses into our lives by controlling what we read.<\/p>\n

I recently set up a news feed so that I can follow reports of book censorship in the USA.\u00a0 This, the first post in a series, is a roundup of current book banning news:<\/p>\n