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In honor of Banned Book Week: https://bannedbooksweek.org/
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay to Lead Banned Books Week as Honorary Chair
Award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been named honorary chair for Banned Books Week 2024, which takes place September 22 – 28. DuVernay will be joined by youth honorary chair Julia Garnett, a student activist who fought book bans in her home state of Tennessee.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay to Lead Banned Books Week as Honorary Chair
Award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been named honorary chair for Banned Books Week 2024, which takes place September 22 – 28. DuVernay will be joined by youth honorary chair Julia Garnett, a student activist who fought book bans in her home state of Tennessee.
Ahavati said:In honor of Banned Book Week: https://bannedbooksweek.org/
Any favourite banned books, Aha?
Any favourite banned books, Aha?
Casted_Runes said:
Any favourite banned books, Aha?
I can't even come close to reviews like yours, CR ( which I thoroughly enjoy, btw ). But in honor of banned book week, I have been reading those books that have been banned or challenged due to their content.
Right now, I am reading Beloved. The movie, considered an American gothic psychological horror, was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. It's based on the true story of Margaret Gardner, who escaped from slavery with her family in the late 1800's. I read in a review that the complexity of Beloved is largely overlooked in the film; therefore, I've always wanted to read the book.
1984 by George Orwell is also a good one to read.
I guess to me, with the current push to alter history through the push to cancel critical race theory, reading these books provides insight into the mindset of what scares those who are hell-bent on preventing others from the freedom of choice.
Any favourite banned books, Aha?
I can't even come close to reviews like yours, CR ( which I thoroughly enjoy, btw ). But in honor of banned book week, I have been reading those books that have been banned or challenged due to their content.
Right now, I am reading Beloved. The movie, considered an American gothic psychological horror, was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. It's based on the true story of Margaret Gardner, who escaped from slavery with her family in the late 1800's. I read in a review that the complexity of Beloved is largely overlooked in the film; therefore, I've always wanted to read the book.
1984 by George Orwell is also a good one to read.
I guess to me, with the current push to alter history through the push to cancel critical race theory, reading these books provides insight into the mindset of what scares those who are hell-bent on preventing others from the freedom of choice.
Ahavati said:
I can't even come close to reviews like yours, CR ( which I thoroughly enjoy, btw ). But in honor of banned book week, I have been reading those books that have been banned or challenged due to their content.
Right now, I am reading Beloved. The movie, considered an American gothic psychological horror, was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. It's based on the true story of Margaret Gardner, who escaped from slavery with her family in the late 1800's. I read in a review that the complexity of Beloved is largely overlooked in the film; therefore, I've always wanted to read the book.
1984 by George Orwell is also a good one to read.
I guess to me, with the current push to alter history through the push to cancel critical race theory, reading these books provides insight into the mindset of what scares those who are hell-bent on preventing others from the freedom of choice.
Beloved is a wonderful novel. I forgot that it was banned.
I can't even come close to reviews like yours, CR ( which I thoroughly enjoy, btw ). But in honor of banned book week, I have been reading those books that have been banned or challenged due to their content.
Right now, I am reading Beloved. The movie, considered an American gothic psychological horror, was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. It's based on the true story of Margaret Gardner, who escaped from slavery with her family in the late 1800's. I read in a review that the complexity of Beloved is largely overlooked in the film; therefore, I've always wanted to read the book.
1984 by George Orwell is also a good one to read.
I guess to me, with the current push to alter history through the push to cancel critical race theory, reading these books provides insight into the mindset of what scares those who are hell-bent on preventing others from the freedom of choice.
Beloved is a wonderful novel. I forgot that it was banned.
Ahavati said:Banned Book Map:
https://littlefreelibrary.org/about/book-bans/book-ban-map/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjNS3BhChARIsAOxBM6ocuJFmA4U9_lG0_R-xxPZUJrDFxOfWJ_8sg13uTemTwoj0QJBooWAaAstTEALw_wcB
Thank you! This is an excellent resource, and for sharing it you are now my woman
(Or would be if I wasn't so gay.)
https://littlefreelibrary.org/about/book-bans/book-ban-map/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjNS3BhChARIsAOxBM6ocuJFmA4U9_lG0_R-xxPZUJrDFxOfWJ_8sg13uTemTwoj0QJBooWAaAstTEALw_wcB
Thank you! This is an excellent resource, and for sharing it you are now my woman
(Or would be if I wasn't so gay.)
Let Freedom Read Day
On September 28, 2024, we’re asking everyone to get ready to vote for the freedom to read or to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who make them available!
https://bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-read-day/
On September 28, 2024, we’re asking everyone to get ready to vote for the freedom to read or to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who make them available!
https://bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-read-day/
All the Sinners Bleed is a great mystery novel about a Black sheriff in a small Virginia town, Titus Crown, formerly of the FBI before returning home to Charon in the wake of a botched raid on a white supremacist’s compound. Now Titus must locate the third of a serial killing trio, the other two of which have died in a school shooting, who preyed on Black teenagers. Known as the Last Wolf for the mask he wore in their snuff films, his crimes threaten to destroy the community as racial tensions bubble to the surface between local Confederacy nostalgists and the Black community.
This is an extremely violent novel that’s frank about the fight against racism still strong in the South, where believers in the Lost Cause (a pseudo-historical idea that Southern states led a noble campaign for their rights in the Civil War) cling to old regressive notions to the point of violence. Titus is a likeable and enticing character who reminds me of what Walter Mosley said about wanting to advance Black heroes in fiction. Cosby does that here.
If you’re sensitive to themes of child abuse or descriptions of gore, you might find this a tough read, yet it doesn’t feel gratuitous and Cosby somehow manages to embed a beacon of hope in the darkness. The prose is rich and Gothic, making this a piece of Southern Gothic as much as anything else. It’s reminiscent in plot and tone of the ‘90s Hap and Leonard novel Mucho Mojo, by John R Lansdale, also great, although having a Black perspective on these themes (Southern racism, including internalised racism, religion – both books revolve in part around churches – poverty, child sexual abuse, serial murder) gives All the Sinners Bleed its own angle.
This is almost a horror novel in its way, with grim but lovely passages describing Charon’s history, including a mass poisoning among the Daughters of the Confederacy. There’s an atmosphere of haunting to the story, a sense that the town is under a curse, a la Stephen King’s It. Which ties in with Cosby’s political theme as to how the stain of American slavery followed by segregation is a stain that continues to spread across the present. Religion is an important motif amidst all this, Southern Gothic heavyweight Flannery O’Connor’s line about the “Christ-haunted” South coming into play. Titus is a bitter atheist whose father remains religious, and the ways in which faith can be used to abuse and divide are explored. A monologue near the end is startling for its vision of God and His angelic horde, disturbing in the nearly cosmic horror it evokes.
Although this isn’t really a whodunnit since you can’t anticipate the killer’s identity (or at least I couldn’t), it not being one of a closed circle Agatha Christie-style, it does have that nice piling up of detail and revelation that I always enjoy in crime fiction. All the Sinners Bleed, whose title implies a Southern town tormented by past and current crimes that corrupt everything, is a fantastic read and encourages me to check out more Cosby.
Rating: 3.5/4
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