From The Book Geek

I know I'm coming up on the final moments of this, but Banned Books Week is something I find interesting, to say the least. In my life, I don't recall ever having a book banned that I was assigned to read. I know there are controversial books out there (Harry Potter immediately comes to mind) but now that I'm a parent, I can say with quite a bit of certainty that if I don't want my child to read something, he won't be reading it. Now, I know kids sneak (my mother encouraged me to read John Jakes' North and South trilogy but she wouldn't let me watch the miniseries on tv -- I think I snuck in a couple of views on the old black and white I had in my room). And if there's ever a time my child wants to read a book I'm not too keen on, I hope I'm open-minded enough to at least discuss it with him. Right now, his reading world consists of the Sesame Street books I buy from my favorite used bookstore and his Imagination Library books (thank you, Dolly Parton!)

I'd love to bold the books I've read from the ALA list but that's a long post. Check out The Book Geek. I'll post it over there.....