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Sep 30
That's How Sue Sees It: Banned Books Week

By Sue Keegan, AIC, MBA, Learning & Development Manager​

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Banned Books Week kicked off this past Sunday and runs through Saturday, 10/02/2021.  I look at this week as a sort of way to celebrate the freedom to read.  So I did a little research to try to find out the first banned book in the United States and it appears that title goes to New English Canaan written by Thomas Morton.  Here’s a link if you would like to learn a bit more.  

To celebrate Banned Books Week, I chose three banned books to read in the month of September.  My choices are Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (I know I have a copy of this somewhere...).  I am also adding the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, which is not banned in The United States, but was banned in South Africa.  

Which banned book(s) have you read or will you be reading?  Let me know via email at skeegan@biginy.org or post in our Community​.  ​

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