Remember that issue of me reading the top 10 banned books?? Well, I just don't like some of them. So...I have decided to substitute a few of them with my own banned books to read! The following are the originals with an 'X' in front of those to be replaced...by me.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lolita
The Catcher in the Rye
X Harry Potter Series
X The Anarchist Cookbook
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
X Candide
1984
X The Satanic Verses
Brave New World
I am replacing the Harry Potter Series with the Judy Blume Series. Now remember...she, too, was the author of inappropriate books for young adults. My kids and I loved them!
And I will replace Candide with Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon. A favorite line from this book is ... Sergeant Toomey: You would need three promotions to be an asshole. This book is filled with banned material. Which makes it good.
Dante's Inferno. I remember looking through this book as a small child. I was terrified at the illustrations...but I couldn't stop looking at them. Especially the snakes and half eaten people. How sick is that. Maybe I should look at it again.
I have one more...as yet undecided.
My grandfather was an avid reader. Even though I was only 5 years old when he passed I vividly remember him rocking me in the rocking chair and reading to me. The newspaper in the evenings. And poetry.
Grampy Dawe had quite a collection of books. One in particular took me years to read simply because of the title. Of Mice and Men. I detested mice and couldn't possibly understand how anyone could write about them and what association a mouse would have with a man. Then I read it and my heart ached and I cried like a baby. I was 10. John Steinbeck became my hero. Grapes of Wrath...awesome. Tortilla Flat...so funny and poignant.
So many books...so little time.
So this is my partial revised list of banned books. I have already re-read 1984, Brave New World and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
I am reading a non-banned book right now...one of my all time favorites The Egg and I. A comfort book for me.
The only thing I accomplished today was to take a shower. And eat. And that's all I am doing. Screw that list of things I was going to do. Well, I did clean the bathroom and went through some stuff that needed going through and throwing out. And cleaned out some drawers. None of that was on the list. But am giving myself a reprieve. I did stuff that took virtually no energy.
Husband has cooked me supper so I will eat again. Yum. See you later!
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