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Welcome to Banned Books Week, if you haven't dropped by for awhile. I recommend the blog over at Book View Cafe -- we're talking about it a lot, because it's a big deal. Burning books starts things, but it never settles anything.

I put on my journalist cap a few weeks ago and researched an event in US history that startled me. Someone burned The Lord of the Rings.

Yes, the heroic, Christ-like Frodo and his companions have been not only banned -- for magic, for being irreligious, for...smoking? Yes, indeed. And even burned.

No one ever asked the people who burned The Lord of the Rings why they burned it. The answer is not what you think.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: Chaos City
Current Music: Fan!

It’s Banned Books Week and Book View Cafe is getting in on the action. Join our crack blogging team all week as we celebrate banned books and how they’ve impacted our lives. Banned book bloggers include Sherwood Smith, Brenda Clough, Nancy Jane Moore, Amy Sterling, Judith Tarr, Sarah Zettel, Jerry Weinberg, Deborah J. Ross, and more. Grab your can of lighter fluid and join us at the Book View Cafe blog: http://blog.bookviewcafe.com.

You regulars know that I wrote a bite about censorship in the BVC blog back here:

My original summation:

http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/08/21/the-season-of-censorship/

And found the coda here:

According to the Guardian, the Humble, TX Teen Book Festival 2011 has been canceled.

Guardian Article: http://tinyurl.com/29ffawr

If anyone has found a later interview of some of the folks involved, post the link, will you? I am up to my eyeballs in copy edits for the book coming out Thursday (I hope!) so no time for browsing.

Current Mood: interested
Current Location: Quarter Box Central
Current Music: Hummmmmm.....