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Biography/Memoir | 12 | 41.38% | |
Mobileread Authors | 10 | 34.48% | |
Short Stories | 11 | 37.93% | |
Banned or Challenged Books | 17 | 58.62% | |
Free-For-All | 11 | 37.93% | |
Young Adult | 8 | 27.59% | |
Modern Fiction | 6 | 20.69% | |
Lottery (version 3) | 5 | 17.24% | |
Fantasy | 8 | 27.59% | |
Humor | 7 | 24.14% | |
Books by Japanese authors | 6 | 20.69% | |
Historical Fiction | 7 | 24.14% | |
MobileRead Classic (must be in our Library and at least 50 years old) | 10 | 34.48% | |
First Book in a Series | 5 | 17.24% | |
Philosophy | 10 | 34.48% | |
Foreign (books originally written in a language other than English) | 9 | 31.03% | |
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02-23-2013, 05:10 PM | #1 | |
Bah, humbug!
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September 2013 *Category* Poll
This poll contains your nominations for the September 2013 category. This visible poll is multiple choice and will be open for 5 days.
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02-24-2013, 05:37 AM | #2 |
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Well - the early lead of banned/challenged books isn't exactly a surprise. I wonder if it can hold on to the early lead though. The race is on!
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02-24-2013, 09:11 AM | #3 |
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It looks like a landslide for challenged books. 2/3rds of people are picking it. I know I'll have fun perusing lists of books for one. I had found one, and it's quite possible we could have a challenged/young adult selection since I remember seeing Judy Blume books on one list.
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02-24-2013, 09:17 AM | #4 |
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If banned/challenged books wins, I have the perfect book to nominate. It was a book that a friend (back when I was a teen) had challenged by his mother. That is of course if it is now an eBook.
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02-24-2013, 09:25 AM | #5 |
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We could always read Lolita for this club!
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02-24-2013, 01:07 PM | #6 |
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^Lol, but I'd give up on the clubs if we did that.
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02-24-2013, 06:01 PM | #7 |
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Banned or Challenged Books is clearly in the lead. In theory I think month honoring Banned Book Week is a good idea. In practice, all too many books that have been banned for sexual or political content should have been banned instead for boring their readers.
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02-24-2013, 06:15 PM | #8 | |
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I think I am going to interpret challenged books to mean challenging books. At least that way, there's more of a chance for a book that's not old and dull. |
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02-25-2013, 06:47 AM | #9 |
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I'll take that as a write-in vote for Joyce.
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02-25-2013, 06:56 AM | #10 |
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02-25-2013, 07:22 AM | #11 |
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02-25-2013, 07:37 AM | #12 |
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What I'd like to know is who the heck actually authorized that crap to be published? All it is is a big flaming heap of dung disguised as a book.
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02-25-2013, 08:02 AM | #15 |
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The addition of challenged books makes this anything but another boring book category. If you look at the most challenged books between 2000-2009 you get titles like the following:
Harry Potter Series His Dark Materials Series The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Giver The Lovely Bones Snow Falling on Cedars They're slightly more modern in some ways, but you also get authors like Judy Blume, Robert Cormier, Katherine Patterson, Madeleine L'Engle, R. L. Stine, Garth Nix, S. E. Hinton. Some of the titles are classic Young Adult reads. Start going into other decades and you actually get some titles by Stephen King like Carrie, Cujo and The Dead Zone. I don't think the exercise has to be a drag. Even The Da Vinci Code has been a banned book in Lebanon. Of course, I might well think that reading The Da Vinci Code is a major drag, but it is in the thriller category. |
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