"Until I Feared I Would Lose It, I Never Loved to Read ... "

[chomiji]

From the American Library Association: "To Kill a Mockingbird has been challenged and banned nationwide because it contains racial slurs and adult themes."

For more about Banned Books Week, see Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read at the the American Library Association's site.

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[macavitykitsune.livejournal.com]

They're fucking kidding, right? I credit that book with sensitising me to exactly those issues, and my mother (who teaches English and English literature to grade schoolers) has been using it as a springboard for race rights issues discussions for over a decade now. Way to shove things under the covers, guys.