Banned Books Week is a yearly event celebrating the freedom to read and protesting censorship or attempts to ban books. I love holidays. The simple fact that they’re holidays are good enough for me, but I also love celebrating them. In honor of this esteemed and book-related holiday, and with some good feedback from y’all, I’ve decided to host a Banned Books Week Blog Party!
The “rules” are simple:
- Choose a book from the ALA lists of banned books, or one that’s been banned/challenged in your area.
- Share a little about the book and why it’s important to you at your online space.
- Tag/ping/message other people to do posts of their own.
- Link back to this post, and leave your link in the comments, so we can all read each others’ responses!
Do this for as many books as you want! Banned Books Week runs September 21-27. I’ll be posting five book profiles of my own throughout that week, and reblogging what y’all post during that week or the weekends before and after. I’ll create a Pinterest board for all the posts. (Feel free to keep the chain going and/or comment below after that. I can’t guarantee reblogs and whatnot, but I can guarantee I’ll visit!)
I’ll reblog this post as a reminder at the beginning of next week. Let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing about your books!
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I’m pinging a bunch of people I follow — book bloggers and people who blog about books on occasion — but everyone is welcome to participate, ping or no ping! If you don’t do tag/award/chain type posts or don’t have time this month, no worries — just consider this a shout-out to your awesome blog. 🙂
Hannah Reads Books 
So, the links from this thread go first, because I can load them up in batches 🙂
Then I’ll check the reblogs to see if I missed any.
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I have reblogged a few things that weren’t included in the party proper. 🙂
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Noted. Check your referrals in a few hours and see if WordPress is registering referrals from Ello, plz. You should have at least two views from there when your stats update, because I just posted a link to your blog there and clicked through it twice.
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I’ve currently got four hits from Ello — two from ello.co/justgeneo and two from ello.co/friends. 🙂
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Those are me and Diana 🙂 I was rather hoping you’d have 40. But nice to know WP can see them.
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😀
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This might be too late, but here’s a link to my post about Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
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Not too late at all! You’ll get a reblog shortly.
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Thanks for doing this blog party. It’s a great idea!
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Reblogged this on Part Time Monster and commented:
I’ll be writing a post Saturday—it’s just a matter of choosing which book to talk about!
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I did a post a few months back on how the school board in my area removed a book from the eighth grade reading list after one complaint, against their own policies. I did a blanket post for BBW, but I will see if I have time to do this.
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I’ll check out your post!
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Love this idea! I’ll see if I can get my act together and write something (not an easy task lately!) I’ll definitely share this on FaceBook, I’ve connected with a lot of new (to me) bloggers there recently so maybe some of them will participate…
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Cool, thanks! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Sourcerer and commented:
I’m a little late with this, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to get a post out in time to join the party myself. If you’re planning to write a banned books post before the end of the week, you should check this out and think about participating. 🙂
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Hey! I totally missed your ping. glad I stopped by and saw this before the week is out. Not sure who I’d tag because it seems everyone I know well enough to tag is doing something for BBW already.
Will definitely have a post of some sort for it before the end of the week, though.
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Cool beans! I’m already pretty thrilled with how big BBW seems to be on WordPress. 😀
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Reblogged this on Things Matter and commented:
The blog party starts… hm… NOW! 😀
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I’m a librarian, so I’ve been pretty excited about Banned Book Week for awhile now, and I will definitely post about it next week. I’m glad to find someone else as excited as I am!
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Awesome! I work in a library too, but I think I’m the only one excited there… 🙂
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Looking forward to this! It’s going to be great!
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Thanks!
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I’m in 😉
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Yay! 😀
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YAY!!!! You know I love banned book week! I will be posting all week at Book Journey on banned books and even a personal home town banning story from this year. I will be happy to promote what you are going here too!
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Thank you! I’ll be promoting your stuff too, the more the merrier. 😀
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This sounds like fun. Unfortunately, I kind of have a reading schedule planned out for the rest of the year and didn’t know about this until a few days ago. Maybe I could plan something for next year?
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For sure. 🙂 I’m gonna plan ahead more next year, this was a bit spur-of-the-moment.
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Hey, this is a great idea! I may post one or two that week too.
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Awesome, I’d love to see them!
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I posted an introduction today, linking to your post, and posted a separate post about a banned book (overzealous today I am): https://reshapingreality.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/banned-book-week-annie-on-my-mind/
Thanks for this. It’s really fun looking into these books again. And looking at the ones I have yet to read still.
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Cool, thanks! It’s very exciting!
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Thanks a lot! Will be glad to be a part of this 🙂
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Awesome, glad to have you! 🙂
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This is profoundly bad timing, sorry.
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Yeah, I know.
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You know I’m in! I just signed up to do a review of “To Kill A MockingBird” on the Thursday of that week for another blogs Banned Book Week events, have a Redefining Disabilities Project post lined up for the Wednesday (which doesn’t really have to do with banned books but.. you know, it’s when I could get it in!) and am thinking of also doing a review/write-up about the importance of the book to me, of “Fahrenheit 451” on the Tuesday (because, I may well be crazy… haven’t actually gotten either of those books READ yet since.. a while ago). So.. yes.. I’ll be doing stuff! And ping-back’s will occur 🙂 Yay!
I was recently talking to some friends about the “Holiday Season” and since I’ve been watching/reading a lot that deals with the “season” in old school, wealthy-people-go-to-London type terms, I have decided that I am going to have my own “Season” which is starting… nowish. So, Banned Book week is one of the many celebrations of the “I can’t afford to go anywhere but lets make the next few months special anyhow” Season 🙂
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Excellent! 😀
I love it! Totally hopping on your “season” bandwagon.
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Kind of thinking of making it a “thing” complete with blog-posts… and perhaps some connections. If I’m working on getting my face-to-face friends on the “make me be social by participating in this “season”” bandwagon I see no reason not to also make it a blogging event!
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Yes, yes, make it a thing!
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I am so bad when it comes to peer-pressure…. It shall be a thing! I will get a post together to start planning… soon 🙂
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Hey Hannah – thanks for the heads up about this! I can definitely post about a banned book next week. Picking which one will be a challenge…
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I thought about calling it a “challenge” for that very reason. 😉 Glad you’re posting, I’ll look forward to it!
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Hi Hannah! I posted about “The Handmaid’s Tale” today over on my blog – feel free to come check it out! http://thebubblebathreader.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/celebrate-banned-books-week/
Thanks again for making me aware of this!
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Awesome, thanks!
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