The GOT Book Club

[LostLegend]

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America

The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

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Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries


The lists of banned books range from Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic, which includes some line drawings that depict bare bottoms, to books featuring LGBTQ+ youth like Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan to historical accounts like They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly. Also included are reference books like The Complete Book of Cats and The Complete Book of Dogs, both by Rosie Pilbeam.

 

[Cameron Manning]

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America

The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

pen.org

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries


The lists of banned books range from Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic, which includes some line drawings that depict bare bottoms, to books featuring LGBTQ+ youth like Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan to historical accounts like They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly. Also included are reference books like The Complete Book of Cats and The Complete Book of Dogs, both by Rosie Pilbeam.

There is a book in The Library in William Brown Street that has a book although not banned, you have to give your name and adress then sign to enable you to borrow the book. It’s called “ Spiders in the Bath” by Paul Brean, it’s a recent account of Norris Green in the 1980’s and some of the relatively young people who lived there. Norris Green being the bath and the spiders being the people who lived there. The book is easy to read and a real honest look at how life was then in that area.

 

[LostLegend]

There is a book in The Library in William Brown Street that has a book although not banned, you have to give your name and adress then sign to enable you to borrow the book. It’s called “ Spiders in the Bath” by Paul Brean, it’s a recent account of Norris Green in the 1980’s and some of the relatively young people who lived there. Norris Green being the bath and the spiders being the people who lived there. The book is easy to read and a real honest look at how life was then in that area.

How come you have to sign for it? Is it a rare edition?
Just had a look and it seems to be relatively easy to pick up a copy for yourself (added it to my TBR list )

 

[Cameron Manning]

How come you have to sign for it? Is it a rare edition?
Just had a look and it seems to be relatively easy to pick up a copy for yourself (added it to my TBR list )

I think it’s more to do with the authors position on the police and others in authority.

 

[Charro]

Can anybody recommend any good books about Russia in the 90s?

More about the power shift from communism to capitalism?

 

[Bryan+]

Can anybody recommend any good books about Russia in the 90s?

More about the power shift from communism to capitalism?

Red Notice, or Secondhand Time.

 

[Charro]

Red Notice, or Secondhand Time.

Red notice exactly what I was looking for.

Cheers

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I'm so hyped that my copy of Joe Abercrombie's latest book came in early yesterday at Waterstones. I've been waiting for this for over three years now. The inner artwork is cool as hell too.
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How did you get on with this (no spoilers)? I have it but not read yet - my kid rated it but qualified a little as not as good as his favourites. Big Joe never misses, though - very consistent writer. Seems like he cut through to mainstream sales with it which is great for him.

I'm starting the last one of Scott Bakker's the Second Apocalypse - called the Unholy Consult. Good God this is a tough series but there really is nothing else like it.