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Banned Book Week – September 27 – October 4

north21 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:14:54 +0000

“Closing Books Shuts Out Ideas” is the theme for the 27th annual celebration of the freedom to read. This freedom includes not only the freedom to choose what we read, but also to select from a full array of possibilities. Come to your local library and check out the displays of books that have been banned or threatened throughout history. Challenges are requests to have the books removed from school or library shelves. The challenges reported reflect a continuing concern with a wide variety of themes, from witchcraft in the Harry Potter series to racism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to gay marriage in And Tango Makes Three.

Walrus poem

north21 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:27:17 +0000

This is a reading of the first verse of Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter.

A crummy day to be blogging live from Greeley

north21 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:49:15 +0000

Besides driving over 2 hours in rainy weather and slick dirt roads I got here and couldn’t find the library and then the parking permit machine wouldn’t work. I am glad to finally be here and learning about blogging.