#Banned Book Week #Giveaway Hop #win #FirstAmendment

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Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read, will be held the week of September 24th in 2017. For this year’s celebration, the coalition of organizations that sponsors Banned Books Week will emphasize the importance of the First Amendment, which guarantees our inherent right to read.

Censorship is happening and it is infringing on the right of readers.

According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) – which tracks reports of book challenges and bans and compiles an annual Top Ten Challenged Books List – there was an alarming 17% increase in book censorship complaints in 2016. Since most challenges are not reported, the actual number is probably much higher. Even more disturbing, while only 10% of the titles reported to OIF are normally removed from the institutions receiving the challenges, half of the most frequently challenged books were actually banned last year.

If you are interested in finding out what books have been challenged/banned over the years you can visit this site and it is broken down by year.

In support of the Freedom to Read any book we want, I will be giving away these 2 books to 2 lucky winners!

 

   
Synopsis:

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”

This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.

Synopsis:

When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby — and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! — are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott.

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17 thoughts on “#Banned Book Week #Giveaway Hop #win #FirstAmendment

  1. Julie Waldron

    No but I think parents should censor what their child reads.

  2. Beverly Gordon

    I dont believe in censorship period while i may disagree with somethings said and written i feel that its the right of a person to say or read what was written and hear what was said

  3. polly

    No, I do not believe that!

  4. katklaw777

    Never…ever!

  5. Steph

    No. I do not think books should be banned or censored.

  6. Cynthia R

    No I do not believe books should be banned or censored. I enjoy reading all kinds of books and soem of the banned books are my favorites.

  7. Edye

    No, I do not.

  8. Danielle Hammelef

    I do not believe books should be banned or censored.

  9. Beth T

    I think everyone should have the freedom to read the books that they prefer.

  10. Burma Turner

    No, I think people should be allowed to read what they choose to!

  11. Richard Brandt

    No, if you teach your children to be afraid of books you’re teaching them to be
    afraid of ideas.

  12. Debra Holloway

    I believe parents should censure what their child reads, and watches on television, movies so forth.

  13. Michelle Hooper

    No

  14. Deborah W.

    No, I do not believe that books should be banned or censored.

  15. bn100

    no

  16. Maria Dalmau

    Absolutely not, then what’s freedom of speech for?

  17. John Smith

    “Do you believe books should be banned or censored?” Usually not. There may be some cases where a particularly incendiary book might be kept by a library on the “hold” shelf, for request by adults.

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