Year: 2006

  • I was searching Google to find the lists of banned and challenged books for my “Banned Books Week” display and, lucky me, I happened upon this article: Libraries and schools throughout the country are ready once again to observe Banned Books Week. It’s that special time each year when some in the library profession point…

  • Banned Books week is coming up at the end of September! I just voted for my favorite Challenged or Banned book which is Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut. It was a hard call, though. There are many great works of literature that are being challenged all the time by people who don’t understand the meaning of Freedom to Read.…

  • The strangest thing happened to me last night when I was dreaming. It’s actually quite creepy. I had a scary dream last night. I can’t remember the plot of it, if there was one. The significant part was that there were these ghosts that were hanging around me and my co-workers that I couldn’t see…

  • I had quite the exciting morning. I was cutting open a box of tofu and snipped the tinest corner of my left ring finger off. It bled all over the house. And we were out of bandaids. I finally found one in the first aid kit. it was a ginormous band-aid but did the job.…

  • The End of Summer