When I first came across this challenge I really didn’t think that I would be able to participate. I mean how many books would really be of interest to me. Then I started reading the list and began noticing books that I had heard about or had on my TBR list. I never understood the whole banned/challenged books fight. It feels like we are trying to make a vacuum where everything is peachy keen and nothing bad happens, nothing bad happened in the past, and certain words don’t exist. To each their own I guess. I just would have hated to have my reading restricted in high school since there were at least 10 books on these lists I read back then. So now I want to add 12 more to my read books list.
This challenge is being hosted by The Ecletic Bookshelf.
We all know that there is a whole week devoted to Banned and Challenged books. But why stop at a week?! Why not a whole YEAR?!
Rules:
- Anyone can join
- You don’t need a blog to participate. For non-bloggers, please leave a comment with a link (if you review somewhere else) to the review or leave a list of the books you read on the monthly link up post.
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Audio, ebooks, and bound books are ok.
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No re-reads
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Create a sign up post and post the link in the linky below.
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Challenge goes from January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012
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Challenge Crossovers are ok.
Levels:
Level 1 – Read 12 Banned/Challenged books
Level 2 – Read 24 Banned/Challenged books
Level 3 – Read 36 Banned/Challenged books
Level 4 – Read 37+ Banned/Challenged books
Goodreads Lists to refer to:
American Library Association Links:
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