What an odious group. Being able to speak in favour of those books sounds like it would be a good thing though.
I do not feel qualified to cast judgement on the shit birds but I enjoyed reading all the catty opinions.
My job is making books for school libraries, and it seems like I'm always hearing news of another district or entire state trying to ban books with "objectionable" material. For example, I am longer allowed to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in a book for fear of making it unbuyable in Florida. It is enraging that these people have that much power.
We're starting to have problems like that in the UK, but it is not parents not wanting to read certain books, it's Nigel Forage and his ilk. - https://www.instagram.com/bannedbooksweekuk/https://www.instagram.com/indexcensorship/ It's bad enough when bookshops have limited space, or books go out of print, or publishers refusing to publish an author's new book like the situation J.V. Jones has found herself in but
banning books from schools? There are some primary schools in the UK that don't even have a library in them which is bad, and when it comes to science fiction and fantasy and non-fiction natural history/zoology, I have a better personal library than a lot of the public ones do.
What an odious group. Being able to speak in favour of those books sounds like it would be a good thing though. I do not feel qualified to cast judgement on the shit birds but I enjoyed reading all the catty opinions.
My job is making books for school libraries, and it seems like I'm always hearing news of another district or entire state trying to ban books with "objectionable" material. For example, I am longer allowed to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in a book for fear of making it unbuyable in Florida. It is enraging that these people have that much power.
@oopsiedoodle - that is *unreal*.
We're starting to have problems like that in the UK, but it is not parents not wanting to read certain books, it's Nigel Forage and his ilk. - https://www.instagram.com/bannedbooksweekuk/ https://www.instagram.com/indexcensorship/ It's bad enough when bookshops have limited space, or books go out of print, or publishers refusing to publish an author's new book like the situation J.V. Jones has found herself in but
banning books from schools? There are some primary schools in the UK that don't even have a library in them which is bad, and when it comes to science fiction and fantasy and non-fiction natural history/zoology, I have a better personal library than a lot of the public ones do.