The Reading Room

The perfect room for book lovers

Pages

  • Home
  • Archives
  • Reviews

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Banned Books Week, Sept. 24-Oct.1 2011


Posted by Kathy Reel at 1:29 PM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Newer Posts Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Currently Reading

my currently-reading shelf:
Kathy 's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (currently-reading shelf)

Follow by Email

Subscribe To The Reading Room

Posts
Atom
Posts
All Comments
Atom
All Comments

The Reading Room

The Reading Room
Girl Reading by Oliver Ray

The Reading Room

Welcome to the Reading Room Blog. I am simply going to share my reading and book related items with you, with my recent favorites featured in the widget. I am also adding my book reviews to the blog, and I hope they will aid you in your reading adventures. Any spoilers will be so labeled.

Followers

Goodreads Updates

Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion

Recent Posts

  • On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen: Reading Room Review
      Oh, Lady Georgie! You do make me so happy that I'm a reader and that I found Her Royal Spyness series four years ago. Having a new ...
  • Author Spotlight: Triss Stein and the Erica Donato Brooklyn Mysteries
    Brooklyn Wars , the fourth book in the Erica Donato Mystery series, comes out tomorrow on Tuesday, July 31st.  Today on The Reading Room a...
  • (no title)
    Armchair BEA, Day Four:  Beyond Your Blog "Has blogging opened up opportunities for you beyond getting free, advance copies of ne...
  • Blessed are the Peacemakers by Kristi Belcamino: Reading Room Review
    Blessed are the Peacemakers is the 5th Gabriella Giovanni mystery, and I am solidly addicted to their spell. I should know better than to...
  • Path into Darkness by Lisa Alber: Reading Room Review
    With the third installment of the County Clare Mysteries , Lisa Alber has cemented the series’ success. One of the descriptions heard in...
  • End of Fall Reading 2014
    With the first snow of the year, I've determined that fall is indeed ending and winter is announcing itself.  So, I want to share s...
  • Fahrenheit 451 Discussion
    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is in my top 5 favorite books of all my reading thus far.  I came across this discussion initiated by the ALA...
  • Interview with Karin Salvalaggio
    Today is the publication day for the third Macy Greeley novel, Walleye Junction , by Karin Salvalaggio .  This series is quickly becomin...
  • Favorite 2014 Reads
    As usual, I have lots of favorites out of the 82 books I read this past year.  Here are some of the best.  Seven for a Secret by L...
  • Banned Books Week 2012
    I hope that all book lovers are celebrating the freedom to read what we choose this week and every week.  What disturbs me most about bo...

Blog Archive

  • ►  2017 (37)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2016 (37)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2015 (19)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2014 (11)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2013 (12)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2012 (29)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (7)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ▼  2011 (1)
    • ▼  September (1)
      • Banned Books Week, Sept. 24-Oct.1 2011
  • ►  2009 (2)
    • ►  June (2)

From My Goodreads.com Lists

Kathy's highly-recommend book montage

The Last Dickens: A Novel
My Sister's Keeper
Rules
The Graveyard Book
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Gargoyle on the Roof
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories: The Whole Story
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Drums of Autumn
Voyager
Outlander
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Loop
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Belong to Me: A Novel
Love Walked In
An Abundance of Katherines
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just Mystery
Rebecca
All Alone in the Universe
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Metamorphosis
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Sun Also Rises
Things Fall Apart
Invisible Man
Fahrenheit 451
The Castle in the Attic
Pride and Prejudice
Beach Music
Spoon River Anthology
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
The BFG
The Westing Game
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Grave Tattoo
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel
Bel Canto
Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel
The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again
The Falls: A Novel
Whirligig
Elsewhere
Ordinary Heroes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Secret Life of Bees
Jane Eyre
Ethan Frome
Winesburg, Ohio
Stones from the River
The Dante Club: A Novel
The Girls
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
Life of Pi
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
The Good German
The Heretic's Daughter
The Call of the Wild
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
The Historian
A Widow for One Year
The Hound of the Baskervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird
People of the Book
Year of Wonders
Dead Until Dark
Locked Rooms
A Letter of Mary
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Doomsday Book
Grave Goods
City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense
The Serpent's Tale
Mistress of the Art of Death
Night
Nineteen Minutes


Powered by Goodreads.com

My Blog List

  • BOOK RIOT
    Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 20th, 2017
    4 hours ago
  • Mystery Playground
    Book Review: End of Temperance Dare
    6 hours ago
  • dru's book musings
    Author Showcase ~ Blessed Are the Peacemakers by Kristi Belcamino
    11 hours ago
  • Carstairs Considers....
    Movie Review: Garage Sale Mystery - Murder by Text
    22 hours ago
  • My Four Bucks
    Extract: Gustave Flaubert: The Ambiguity of Imagination by Giuseppe Cafiero
    1 day ago
  • The Book Stop
    Down the TBR Hole: which books should I read?
    1 day ago
  • BOLO BOOKS
    Carla Coupe – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch
    2 days ago
  • 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
    Sleeping Car to Trieste - 1948 film review
    4 days ago
  • Jen J. Danna - Skeleton Keys
    Report From the Writing Trenches, August 2017
    5 days ago
  • The Broke and the Bookish - A Book Blog For The Eclectic Reader
    Ten Graphic Novel Recommendations
    5 days ago
  • TLC Book Tours
    David Handler, author of The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes, on tour August 2017
    5 days ago
  • The Novel Life
    My Best Read of the Summer
    1 week ago
  • Chrisbookarama
    A Possible New Format and a Look at The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield-Fisher
    1 week ago
  • Seasons of Reading
    Time to close out the High Summer Readathon #HSreadathon
    2 weeks ago
  • Reading on a Rainy Day
    Some Light Reading For Now | The Book Update
    3 months ago
  • Coffee and a Book Chick
    Swan Song, by Robert McCammon (Audio Book)
    5 months ago
  • Letters Inside Out
    BlackBerry Cell Phone Plans
    7 months ago
  • Down the Writer's Path
    Ray Bradbury Quotes – On Ideas
    9 months ago
  • The Bookish Type
    #AWTeen Twitter Chat
    1 year ago
  • The Book Whisperer
    秋葉原の風俗嬢によると爪が伸びている男性に対しての印象はやはり悪いようです
    1 year ago
  • What's Joy reading?
    Long time, no post
    1 year ago
  • Between the Covers
    Recommended Reading: Chris Holm’s Collector Series
    2 years ago
  • bibliosue
    TLC Book Tour – Us by David Nicholls
    2 years ago
  • Tattooed Books: A YA book reviewing, librarian-in-training
    Movie Trailer: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
    3 years ago
  • Literary Musings
    Recent Reads, Vol II
    4 years ago
  • The Passionate Bibliophile
  • The Year in Books
  • BOOK BROWSING – A LOST ART? « Tor Books

Blogs Great for Listings of New Books and Order of an Author's Series

  • Bloodstained Bookshelf http://www.mirlacca.com/Bookshelf.html
  • Stop, You're Killing Me http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/
  • FantasticFiction https://www.fantasticfiction.com/

Author Blogs/Web sites

  • Terry Shames blog
  • Jen J. Danna Web site and Blog
  • Susan Elia MacNeal Web site
  • Rhys Bowen Web site
  • Hallie Ephron Web site
  • Julia Spencer-Fleming Web site
  • Lucy Burdette Web site
  • Hank Phillippi Ryan Web site
  • Anne Cleeland Web site
  • Laurie R. King Web site
  • Laurie R. King blog
  • Michael Sullivan blog
  • Jungle Red Writers blog
  • Anna Loan-Wilsey blog
  • Anna Loan-Wilsey Web site
  • Deanna Raybourn blog
  • Deborah Crombie Web site
  • Deborah Crombie blog
  • Louise Penny Web site
  • Diana Gabaldon Web site
  • Diana Gabaldon blog

Favorite Reading Quotes

quotes Kathy likes


"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."— Neil Gaiman

Goodreads Quotes

About Me

My photo
Kentucky, United States
View my complete profile

Blog Tours

Blog Tours

Amazon SearchBox

Book Blogging Community

Halloween Countdown

Love the Halloween season!
Simple theme. Theme images by luoman. Powered by Blogger.