Today during National Library Week, The American Library Association published its annual Banned Books List. My novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was the #8 Most Challenged Book of 2022. See the full list and discover ways to protect the freedom to read at Banned Books Week.
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This country is nuts. But you should still pat yourself on the back for the “honor” of being a consistent thorn in the side of all the nuts who think burning/banning books is a justifiable endeavor. Zero common sense, and zero ability to mind their own damn business, the lot of them. Keep up the good work of poking them exactly where they need a proper poke; smack dab in their non-existent senses of humor.
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What does that mean, "most challenged book"? Does that mean people have said, "I challenge whether that book should be in the library." Or does it mean it is on a banned list and people are challenging that it is banned because they feel it shouldn't be? Sorry I am comprehension challenged. I get confused sometimes when a word can be used in more than one way within a sentence. Or if it isn't clear what a word means within a sentence. One I really get irate about is when someone asks something like, "You don't want smurfs with that?" And I don't know whether to say, "Yes. I don't want Smurfs with that." or "No. I don't want smurfs with that." Is there some grammatical rule I am forgetting? Like smurfs and double negatives can't exist in the same sentence?