I would like to retitle this week to: Happy Reading Week! After all this week is about celebrating our right to read and directly our right to write/voice! All in favor leave a comment!
As for books you're not happy about - it's called wallbanging for a reason. Similar to thumping your head against a wall or other hard surface when in complete disbelief, simply pick up the offending book and throw it against the wall. Or better yet buy a few dozen books and burn them (it helps the authors get some more royalties, much thanks!), or whatever, but don't tell me I can't read it.
The more criticized the book, the more advocates that come out to defend it. Book banners, you're better off ignoring the book or telling your friends to stay clear and leave it at that. By calling attention to books in a overly negative manner (cough censorship cough) you'll arouse curiosity and more people will read the book, which of course is the exact opposite of what is desired. Am I right or am I right? It seems very counter productive.
So instead of shouting Beware of the Books! Celebrate that literature is still being read in an age when television and video games and internet practically rule it out.
If a book isn't for you, stop reading. Nobody forces you to pick up a book or continue read it once it's put you off it. You did it on your own free will. Allow me to do the same. My advice: avoid the books that are bound to arouse your soap box mentality and buy instead those you know you will enjoy. Reading is about love!
- Love of the writer. He/She sweats and labors and brings about his/her thoughts for all to have access to and read.
- Love of the publisher. It is run by those who sweat and labor to produce the books in mass.
- Love of the reader. We can't wait to turn the page. There should be no sweaty bits for us... unless its erotica
Loading ...Let's celebrate our intellectual freedom and curl up with a good book tonight. 
Happy readings!
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Keira – who has written 1034 posts on Love Romance Passion.
Keira's favorite type of heroes are blind, scarred, and tortured... yes, she understands those should be separate, but all 3 at once is also nice! She enjoys historical romances best and adores audio books because great narrators turn books into auditory/mental movies (and she loves her romantic dramas like Pride and Prejudice/North and South!) Learn more about Keira in My Instant Turn Ons, Offs, and Ifs.
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What? No, “And thanks to my fabulous roomie, Sasha, for the tip!”
That’s okay, I heart you anyway
How come you didn’t mention that Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 is “Banned Books Week” by the American Library Association?
I think you should make another post on that and see if you can pick off and highlight possible romance novels from it… like “Pride and Prejudice”
Good point thanks for filling in the dates.
And you are a fabulous roomie.
You couldn’t have said it any better keira..\
“The more criticized the book, the more advocates that come out to defend it.”
This is the status quo in the romance industry -trash a book and it’s certainly to be a best seller… I am all for closing a book if it’s not your thing, but on the other hand if you haven’t finished a book you don’t really have a voice – because as a reader you don’t know how it ends..
Support your cause hon, loving book week…
E.H>
All you have to do is close the book, just like switching the channel on the television.
I’m a curious cat! Tell me a book is banned & I’ll be searching frantically for it; just so I can formulate “my” own opinion regarding the controversy. It’s my understanding the Harry Potter books were banned from schools in Zeeland, Michigan & yet I love them. Moreover, I’ve allowed my son to read them.
Haha EH definitely. The more they trash romance the more we read it and defend it.
Just like changing a TV channel – you’re so right Katie!
I know far more magically inclined books than Harry Potter. That’s why it was banned right Susan?
They banned the HP because it covers dark subjects like death and sorcery.
The problem is that people who challenge books rarely read them. Why is Harry Potter listed on the top 10 of ALA’s banned books? It’s not because he’s a whinny brat, but because it deals with “witches” and “magic” and “death”. But those people who profess not to want their kids to read about that often have no idea what the books are about, they want them banned on the basis of things they’d heard. The aforementioned “witches” and “magic” and “death”.
My mom practically made reading banned books mandatory when I was a kid, so I’ve read a number of them. In high school/college, I deliberately sought out banned books. At this point, I’ve read almost everything on the ALA’s lists of top challenged books.
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