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Yahoo! posted an article recently giving an update on the on-going court case involving Fredrik Colting. Colting resides in Sweden and released his book, “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye” in England, but has yet to receive approval from the Courts to release it in the USA because he never had the approval of J.D. Salinger (author of The Catcher In The Rye). Colting’s [...]
Okay, so the best ideas are borrowed…which is why I’m borrowing one from our friends over at Daemons TV They’ve started a fun game of “Would You Rather” with their favorite TV shows, and I’d like to try something similar with books. Let’s play a good ole’ fashion game of “Snog, Mary, Kill” with some of our favorite fictitious characters. So here are your choices: [...]
This week is Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of our freedom to read. If you are new to BBW, read my post from earlier this week for more information. As a librarian, intellectual freedom is important to me and is something I take very seriously. Censorship may seem like an antiquated idea but books are still being banned in the US all too often. [...]
This story is about a young man named Holden Caulfield. He’s just been kicked out of prep school in New York and is dreading having to explain to his parents that he’s been thrown out of yet another school. Rather than going straight home he decides to spend a couple days on his own in New York, since his expulsion letter won’t reach his parents [...]
