Challenges to books by people I actually know

[kellyrfineman]

If you think that challenges to books by people you actually know are unlikely, I'd encourage you to take a second look.

Here are challenges of which I am aware from 2008 and 2009 to books written by people whom I know in real life:

Comments

[robinellen]

Have they even read Speak??? I can't say more...the plethora of words is choking me.

[kellyrfineman]

If they are applying words like "smutty" to it, then I'm going to go ahead and say NO. That they applied the word "obscenity" to Looking for Alaska is similarly bewildering - there's a (hilarious) blow job scene in the book, but it barely qualifies as sexual in nature because it goes so far wrong. And it's one extremely short snippet out of a text that has a lot to do with many other things, and not at all what the book is "about".

[kellyrfineman]

Man, you weren't lying - you DO say that a lot when it comes to book challenges!

[jessica_shea]

Grrr. Book banning makes me so angry. It's based in fear and judgment and those are awful places from which to try and dictate other people's rights. And a book like Speak, that is so beautiful and important, called "smutty?" Seriously? Grrrr.

[kellyrfineman]

It's all about power. And it's not cool.