Recent acquisitions from England part 3:

📖 Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
📖 Historical Atlas of Britain: Prehistoric and Medieval edited by Nigel Saul
📖 Most Wise and Valiant Ladies: Remarkable Lives: Women of the Middle Ages by Andrea Hopkins

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Recent acquisitions:

📖 O Lady, Speak Again: #Poems by #DaynaPatterson
📖 Through #Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to #AngelaMcCourt's #Ireland

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★★★★☆
The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness by Robert Winder

Recommended by Paul Kingsnorth, a favourite author.

I liked it, but it wasn't as good as I hoped. A lot of interesting ideas were raised but they weren't quite tied together to my satisfaction. It felt like a long, wandering magazine article.

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In #Florida, the complaint of just 1 parent can get a book moved off a school library shelf. This week, a local bookstore gave away free copies of "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman, "The ABCs Of Black History" by Rio Cortez, & "Love To Langston" by Tony Medina, as a way to push back against #censorship in Florida schools. The #Freadom book giveaway was hosted by Books & Books, & paid for by Gorman & a local donor.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181131553/a-miami-bookstore-is-handing-out-books-some-of-the-titles-banned-from-kids-libra

#news #politics #bookbanning #bookbans #banningbooks

The #RILA2023 stickers are spectacular 🤩 and I’m not just saying this because my sister did the art!

#libraries #freadom

★★★★★
Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld

Highly recommended.

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LibraryThing has a cool little feature that shows you, once you've catalogued your books, how tall they would be if stacked. My family's collection (in black) is apparently taller than even the tallest stone structure ever made (the Washington Monument)!

#UniteAgainstBookBans #fREADom

"The Monday of National Library Week - April 24, 2023 - will mark one year since the launch of the Unite Against Book Bans campaign... We're calling it Right to Read Day.

...The American Library Association will release its list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022. The list follows ALA's recent unveiling of data showing record-shattering attempts to remove books from school and public libraries...

Join us on #RightToReadDay "
https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/

#BannedBooks #BookBans #fREADom

Recent acquisitions:
📖 Your Guide to not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper
📖 Matrix by Lauren Groff
📖 Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors by Norman Jones

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★★★★☆
Gender Queer: A Memoir - Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe

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★★☆☆☆
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper

Words try to be funny (but they're mostly not funny). Illustrations try to be Gorey-esque (but they're never as good as Gorey). The incident with the stamp was the best bit. Overall, far below my expectations.

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Much respect to all the Texas authors showing up and speaking out in Llano today. More and more of us need to be showing up and speaking out. If not now, then when? Banning books is evil. #Llano #FReadom

Texas County Would Rather Close Their Public Library Than Return Banned Books to Shelves https://flip.it/YdlPZS #texas #freadom

RT @hacklibschool
NEW POST: "While, as a soon-to-be information professional...I can’t help but think that we need to ensure that our collections reflect the varied and diverse backgrounds of our users."
#librarytwitter
#Freadom
#MondayBlogs

https://hacklibraryschool.com/2023/04/07/impact-of-censorship-and-book-challenging/

How teachers and librarians are subverting book bans in the US https://flip.it/Bqb2LN

“…book bans are part of a political repression campaign in this country, and we don’t respect that assault on basic democratic rights.” #freadom #censorship #lgbtq

RT @shaleahxrose
#ReadBannedBooks #FReadom

A parent found that "The Bible" is full of stuff Utah's book-banning laws prohibit, and filed a formal complaint to have it removed

#freadom #utah #bookBans

https://flip.it/2.uUjg

@courtcan I keep thinking that the politicians who want to ban books in schools are so out of touch they don't realize (or remember? were they ever children?) that telling a kid not to do something is one of the best ways to get them to do it.

#ReadBannedBooks #fREADom

Book bans are un-American

“Between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022, [Texas] experienced more than 800 book bans, the most of any state at the time.

In fact, during that time period, #Texas banned more than 30% of the total number of book bans for the entire country.” #freadom

https://flip.it/j7t2CX

This is interesting--> "Get #banned #book recommendations from NEA. Text BANNED to 48744."

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRnM2VTG/

via Nikki D. Robertson

#education #reading #freadom @edutooters @edutooter