HEY!!! September 21 - 28 is banned book week! Go check out the list of 100 Most Challenged Books from 1990 to 2000. It says "banned" but it really means books that people have complained about the most. I agree that some of these books are not appropriate for children, but the scary thing is...many of the ones that have been challenged are about and for children (Bridge to Tarabithia). People are so afraid that their kids might find out about bad things. You can't shelter them forever, you know. That just makes them stupid.

So, how many of these subversive books have you read?? I have read at least 32 of them, many as an impressionable teenager. No wonder I am so screwed up!! : ) I am baffled by number 88, however. Go laugh at the list and then pick out one to read in celebration of your Constitutional right to read whatever the hell you want and support authors who write whatever the hell they want. Hooray for reading.