5/18/2023 0 Comments Bookreader quotes![]() They stopped the free press, banned and burned books. So let's go ahead and take a look at that.ġ00-year-old WWII widow: "One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books they banned. And this is a 100-year-old World War II widow, and she spoke out against these book bans. This was at a Martin County school board meeting. And that's the reason that we need books like this on the shelf.īENITEZ: So I want to show this moment from last week. You know, it's a story for people whose stories can't be told. And it felt very ironic to have a book about the Holocaust banned. ![]() Yeah, that was the one that really shocked me in Martin County because it's a book about fascism and the rise of fascism and how ordinary people can play into that. Even your book, “The Storyteller,” it's a novel about the Holocaust. And when you're talking about adult romance, you say that's not what I'm writing. There are some libraries in Florida, actually, school libraries, where they have not had any books in elementary school libraries since Christmas. And so the books stay off the shelves, away from kids, until they actually manage to figure out a way to review them. And the modus operandi is to get the books pulled off the shelves, because the process for review is very muddy. This is not an elementary school library. PICOULT: Yeah, so they're books that are to encourage kids to think for themselves. It's like what's happening in the moment. But they do have topics like gun rights and women's reproductive health rights and gay rights and things that make-īENITEZ: Because all of your books are very topical. And, in fact, half of the books she pulled do not even have a single kiss in them. And she said that some of them were adult romance, which is really interesting because I don't write adult romance. ![]() And the one parent who wanted to ban all 20 of my books said on her form that she had not read the book, she admitted to that. But unfortunately, in Martin County, Florida, and in many places in Florida, one parent can decide to pull a book from a shelf without even giving a reason for that. BENITEZ: Why do you think your books are getting banned, especially there in Florida?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |