Came across this story about banned books "read ins"
‘Books matter, and ideas matter’: Banned Books Read-In highlights challenged books – KentWired
Essentially the idea is that people read from and talk about several titles known for being challenged and banned, including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Giver,” “Monday’s Not Coming” and “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
One quote from the article stood out to me: “Books matter, and ideas matter, and these books have formed our lives."
It got me thinking about the idea of doing these kinds of readings more often. Are there other organisations that do similar? Should we all be using our local book clubs etc to get banned books on the reading list?
by book-nerd-2020
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