Today begins Banned Books week. To celebrate I’m re-reading a frequently banned book, Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck. I chose it because:
1. I like it.
2. I haven’t read it for a long time.
3. It’s short, and will be easy to read in what will be a very busy week for me.
For more information on Banned Books Week (sponsored by the American Library Association) check out this website.
I love banned books.
And honestly in the long run banned books outsell many other books usually.
Because people always want to read what’s naughty.
I wish Steinbeck could have lived to 150, and I would have read everything else he could have written.
That books get banned really disturbs me.
I won’t name certain places in the world because I don’t feel like being controversial at the moment, but their media is highly controlled, highly religious, people’s minds are completely controlled, no freedom of personal thought and development; it is so sad.
I hope the US does not go too far in that direction. I know we do it too (control media with religious and political and financial slants) because when I travel, I hear very different news in other countries.
Mice and Men is one of those required readings I still haven’t read. Naughty me. Tell me how you like it.