The list came out in April of 2011 and he'd like to us read the books before the next list comes out. I wonder if I can count And Tango Makes Three if I read it again?
Links should go to the author's web page (thanks Lee!)
1.
Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence
3. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit
4. Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: drugs, offensive language, and sexually explicit
5.
Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence (loved it, stayed up to finish it, where is book 2?)
6. Lush, by Natasha Friend
Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
7. What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
8. Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint
9. Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons: homosexuality and sexually explicit
10.
Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence
My Review: The book ends with a chase scene with no way of knowing if Bella will survive (well, there are three more books) and I just didn't care. In fact, if Bella was to live, she should have chosen Jacob. Took me a whole week to read this.
Sometimes I have to shake my head at the reasons. Twilight for violence? Didn't you notice there were vampires? And Brave New World for racism? I haven't read it yet (how did I graduate high school?) but current racism standards of acceptability are different. I don't care what side of the fence you're on, it's a different world now ;-)
I love the "unsuited to age group" reason. I think there are a lot of parents out there that have no idea what their kids know! And if the target audience is 15-year-olds and the main character is 15-years-old, how is this unsuited to age group?
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1 comment:
Bless you, Book Dragon. No one should be able to tell us what to read. When it comes to kids I suppose it's okay to make recommendations to parents, but books must not be banned, ever, for any reason. The choice is the reader's.
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