Another one for the librarians on my flist...

[yakalskovich]

A secret library in a school locker.

At least the censorship gets them reading.

But Canterbury Tales?? Really?

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[open_the_blinds]

Looking at the list there...that's almost every single book I read in my entire English high school career - the required reading that is! What the hell do those students read, the bible all day?

[yakalskovich]

I have no idea. Autobiographies of popes? Lives of Saints? It seems to be a Catholic school.

[_inbetween_]

you might like her flickr, at least the last pics and the autobiographical comics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherbed/6129088366/in/photostream/

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes, I do, but your post didn't allow comments, so I couldn't say so.

I especially love this one. As I said in my very first post on my German FA blog, 'more room for cats'.

[_inbetween_]

Yeah, I never know if and who sees it and am just glad that I seem to keep finding stuff you might like.

I wanted to warn you to not read the caption or any comments on the Milo and Otis doodle! I cannot stop crying about another one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherbed/4893039398/in/set-72057594103736288) and there seem quite a few that trigger me!

[yakalskovich]

Other people's animals dying always make me bawl; it's so sad. I wouldn't call that triggering, though, for me personally.

[yakalskovich]

Well, if that was their aim, they gloriously succeeded. But I fear there may really be schools that still ban 'Dorian Gray' and 'Catcher in the Rye'.

[yakalskovich]

Er, what?? The entire state???

[julyflame]

I'm a bit confused that both Paradise Lost and the Divine Comedy were on that list, if it was a Catholic school that did it.

[yakalskovich]

They both voice views about heaven and hell that don't exactly rhyme with Catholic dogma. But that school must be terribly strict to see things so narrowly.

[julyflame]

Aye. The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost were both super-influential when they were first published so it's a bit bizarre for them to be out entirely.

[yakalskovich]

It does -- but I have no reason to disbelieve that poster on ask.com

And even if that was a sock puppet account trying to draw attention to that Banned Book Week Fi mentions up there: - banning books is still bad!

[brickling]

Gosh! Makes me so glad to live in a country and time where I cannot even imagine banned books. Okay, you will probably not find 'Mein Kampf' in a school library but we are talking about literature here anyway...

[yakalskovich]

Well, Sphinx had to do a presentation in school about Hitler's youth, and impressed her teacher with citing 'Mein Kampf' as primary source. Our grandmother still had a copy in our grandfather's 'poison cabinet' -- for details see linked post.