by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 29, 2020 | OpEd
Judith Krug (from Wikipedia) was an American librarian, supporter of freedom of speech, and prominent critic of censorship. Krug became Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association in 1967. In 1969, she joined the Freedom to Read...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 28, 2020 | OpEd
Why should you be interested in keeping ALL books on the shelves? Because we need to protect the freedom to read whatever we want; and, that includes explicit, suggestive, disgusting, violent, and everything else under the sun of which writing consists. You are not...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 27, 2020 | OpEd
Yes, it’s still happening Ruth Graham wrote a column in Slate magazine titled “Banned Books Week is a Crock”, with the subtitle, “That’s good news! No one bans books anymore. We won!” Unfortunately, this kind of ignorant statement can be...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | OpEd
Straight from paidcontent.org:50 Shades of Grey is the first title in a trilogy by British author E. L. James. This morning, the NYT reports (in what is currently the most-emailed article on the site) that the book has “electrified women across the country, who have...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of...