- Michigan's Plymouth-Canton Community School district
will continue to use Toni Morrison's Beloved in their AP English classes.
- Uprise Books: "providing new banned and challenged books to underprivileged teens free of charge".
- Some parents in Kentucky are "outraged" about Sherman Alexie's Part-time Indian:
"I was angry, I was enraged," said Vincent. "She knows about a boy and a girl, she knows about sex. But she doesn't know the details of masturbation."
Oh, dear. She sounds to me like someone suffering from serious denial, but I'm sure she knows her daughter better than I do.
Book links:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.
Beloved: Amazon | Indiebound.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I'm sure she knows her daughter better than anyone else. Totally. Completely.
*smirk*
Posted by: Colleen | 21 January 2012 at 04:58 PM
" 'She was masturbating and (describing) how to masturbate and how she did it and also giving a boy a (expletive) and going into great detail of how to perform it,' said Vincent."
I don't remember this from Part-Time Indian. I certainly remember Junior talking about masturbating, but no other characters. Was I not paying attention? It's been a couple of years since I read the book and I passed my copy on to the library.
Posted by: Hope | 23 January 2012 at 10:53 AM
@Hope: I'm so glad you posted that, Hope: I totally don't remember that either! I just remember the amazing 'books give me a boner' passage.
Posted by: Leila | 23 January 2012 at 11:03 AM
I wonder if they've got Looking for Alaska and Part-time Indian mixed up?
Posted by: Hope | 23 January 2012 at 05:09 PM
Oh, that's an awesomely outside-of-the-box (and totally possible) explanation!
Posted by: Leila | 23 January 2012 at 05:13 PM