WTFWe can buy these books and see our youth read them.
eveghost 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧@Kitchi the heck. Most of these used to be required reading when I was in school!
JR Buckley 🏳️🌈⚛️
Gemma 👽@Kitchi
Farenheit 451? Really? …That’s the book they are banning? That’s so on the nose I don’t know where to start…
Farenheit 451? Really? …That’s the book they are banning? That’s so on the nose I don’t know where to start…
John Douglas Porter
Dallas Swoager@Kitchi
How is it that fully half of these books were ones that I was assigned to read when I was in school?
How is it that fully half of these books were ones that I was assigned to read when I was in school?
Gwladys Pendlebury@Kitchi That is until publishers decide there isn’t enough profit in printing them. So many books I want are out of print.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@GwladysPendlebury @Kitchi that is the benefit to e-books - no printing costs. However, the prevalence of DRM for them mean that you are subject to the survival of whatever platform you get them on. (At least when Peanut Press/Palm Books shut down back in the day, they offered a way to unlock the books.)
Maine Abu El Banat@Kitchi They are banning books about banning books.
Jeffy 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺@Kitchi gotta ask, though, where’s that graphic/headline from? It almost seems ready-made for righteous anger.
Andreas@godofbiscuits @Kitchi I couldn't find anything on this particular claim, but it looks like there was some misinformation being spread last August about book banning in Florida: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/08/25/fact-check-fake-list-banned-florida-books-circulates-widely-online/7876468001/
Maybe that's where this originated from?
Maybe that's where this originated from?
@godofbiscuits @Kitchi Though I should note that there definitely is some shady book banning going on, just maybe not these titles.
Summary of the bill: https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/BillSummaries/2022/html/2823
Article about the effect this has on schools: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-book-bans-florida-b2270116.html
Summary of the bill: https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/BillSummaries/2022/html/2823
Article about the effect this has on schools: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-book-bans-florida-b2270116.html
Char@Kitchi most of these were required reading in my 9th grade English class
NorthernWolfie@Kitchi every one of these titles, without exception, currently live in my e-pub archive.
Kevin Ault@Kitchi I have a first American edition "Animal Farm" that both me and my daughter read in high school. It was given to me by my Dad. IIRC it is dated 1949?
KarynRN4@Kitchi yes 👏🏼 👏🏼 #CatcherInTheRye was one of my fave books read in high school.
Jonathan RYou have exactly hit my middle/high school reading list (from decades ago)
Most were great, and I'd add To Kill a Mockingbird and Company K (underappreciated classic).
I found Catcher in the Rye impenetrable.
Lord of the Flies portrays way to negative a picture of humanity (adolescent boys in particular)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
There is some great literature written in the past 50 years, too.
Mike McGraw@Kitchi
And not a bad idea for each of us to re-read most of these same “banned” books. I find that while I read many (not all) of them way back when, I really recall only fuzzy details. But the messages there are still strong and should peal like the warning bells they are from every tower.
And not a bad idea for each of us to re-read most of these same “banned” books. I find that while I read many (not all) of them way back when, I really recall only fuzzy details. But the messages there are still strong and should peal like the warning bells they are from every tower.
Serena@Kitchi I could immediately tell this meme was wrong because none of those books center characters who are queer and/or POC