"Write now is good.": When books ATTACK!

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When books ATTACK!

On her blog indexed, Jessica Hagy continually devises new ways to illustrate, via simple graphs, all sorts of complex social dynamics.

She calls this above image "Lock the library." I thought: Yes, lock it to protect the books from those who want to censor the ideas they hold. Then I realized how many others want to lock the library to protect others from being exposed to ideas inside the books.

This year's Banned Books Week, sponsored annually by the ALA, takes place September 29-October 6. You may be surprised at what the ten most-challenged books for 2006 are.

Update: Jessica Hagy has a chapter in "The Age of Conversation". Read more about it here.

August 28, 2007 in Books, Contemporary Culture, Word-Image Combo | Permalink

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KG, thanks so much for reminding me that Banned Book week is coming up soon. Most of my fave books are on that list! :-)

Posted by: Sharon Sarmiento | August 29, 2007 at 03:51 PM

Sharon — You're welcome. Some of faves are on the list, too.

It makes me think that most of the people who want to ban books haven't read the ones they want to ban — if they had, they wouldn't want to ban them!

Posted by: KG | August 29, 2007 at 10:20 PM

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