One book that surprised me to be on the list was "My Sister's Keeper."
I read that one from Audible and I enjoyed the book. It seems like as
soon as a book or story exposes bizar situations and even possible
reality, some idiot wants it banned so noone else can read it. We
need freedom of information input as well as speech, press, or any
other output.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:04:48AM -0500, Debby Franson wrote:
> Hi Jamie and everyone!
>
> The morning announcer on the radio station we listen to has a game
> called "Impossible Trivia" where people call in to answer the
> question he asks.
>
> This morning's question was: "This week is banned books week. What
> book was banned the longest in the United States?"
>
> The answer was "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which is in the
> collection, of course.
>
> The announcer said that when he was in high school he had an English
> teacher who worked to get banned books read, so the teacher had them
> read "The Catcher in the Rye" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
>
> Debby
>
> At 05:52 PM 9/28/2010, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote
> >I was thinking that first book was probably not an easy scan.
> >Maybe the outsourcers will tackle that one? Any book with all that
> >IM speak is a hard scan. The last one I did I spent a lot of time
> >on and then a PQ version made it into the collection just before
> >mine did.
> >
> >I am looking for the list of all 460 books that were reported as
> >banned books in 2009. It's just interesting to see what kinds of
> >books are "banned".
> >
> >--
> >Jamie in Michigan
> >
> >Currently Reading: The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews
> >Earn cash for answering trivia questions every 3 hours:
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> >
> >See everything I've read this year at:
<http://www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html>www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html
>
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