“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her and admit censorship. – E.M. Forster
“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” – Henry Louis Gates
“Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.” – Lois Lowry
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DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND READ:
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/statementspols/freedomreadstatement
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Fight Censorship and thank a Librarian
It’s banned books week
And if a book hasn’t
Made it on that list
I’m not sure it is
Worth my time
Reading
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It’s banned books week
If you care about
Making your own
Choices
If there is a book
You like that
Has made the list
Speak out
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It’s banned books week
Somewhere there is a
Librarian who has stuck
Her neck out
For your right to
Read what you choose
They are the hero’s of
The hour
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It’s banned books week
Celebrate
Read a book
From the list
Read the statement
Freedom to Read 1953
Celebrate
Then go to the independent
Book store and buy
Banned books
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Stop by and leave a comment. Share your favorite Banned Book.
Bisous,
Léa
poetry, photos and musings oh my! 
I would say that my favorite book has to be Lolita. It is a tour de force of the unreliable narrator.
Thank you for commenting Liz. Actually, Lolita is one I haven’t read, yet. However, your recommendation has moved it up on my list. If she had been paying attention, my mother would have had a stroke with many of the books I read while quite young. Among them was To Kill A Mockingbird. It was banned from the school library but I managed to get my hands on a copy…