Archive for the ‘banned books’ Category

Why I Read Banned Books

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

This beautiful chapter from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning The Color Purple: Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you. What happen to God? ast Shug. Who that? I say. She look at me serious. Big a devil as you is, I say, you not worried bout no God, surely. She say, ...

Read A Banned Book

Monday, September 24th, 2007

I gained my love of reading from my mother. Growing up she always had a book that she was reading. As I grew and my reading evolved from Archie and Spider-Man comic books to Stephen King and Pat Conroy I knew there were times that the adult fare ...