Hello and welcome back to Books on the Brain. On this week's episode, Danielle and Deirdre dive back into their favorite segment The Book Report! Danielle goes into one of the newest pieces of legislation against books in the United States, Texas law HB900. Deirdre goes for something lighter exploring the history of the beach read.

Sources:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-05-15/15-most-banned-books-2022-2023

https://www.bookweb.org/news/abfe-statement-governor-abbott-signing-hb900-law-1629599

https://ncac.org/project/the-kids-right-to-read-project

https://www.bookbrowse.com/news/detail/index.cfm/news_item_number/3091/news/texass-new-book-sexual-rating-law-denounced

https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4504#m60419

https://bookriot.com/what-makes-a-book-a-beach-read/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/02/beach-read-summer-books-holiday-vacation

https://www.michigandaily.com/statement/beach-reads-and-the-construction-of-a-guilty-pleasure/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/books/a-brief-history-of-summer-reading.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/02/issue.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/06/05/issue.html

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