Banned Books Week is over now, but friday we did head up to evanston for a reading of books that were almost banned in Arlington Heights this year:
- “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin,
- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison,
- “The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World” by Michael Pollan,
- “Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers,
- “Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner,
- “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez,
- “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky,
- “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut,
- “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.
along with the most-often-challenged book of last year, "It's Perfectly Normal"
You've just got to wonder about people who think banning slaughterhouse five is a reasonable reaction. Freakonomics sounded fascinating, despite the fact that economics bore me, so i may have to investigate that one further.
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