Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club

This season…

* On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong

* Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

* Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

* Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

* Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer

* Gossip Girl (#1), by Cecily von Ziegesar

* Bone, by Jeff Smith

* The Agony of Alice (#1), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

* The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende

* Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

If there’s a book you want to talk about this season, contact us at [email protected].

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Please join us

References

* Adriana E. Ramirez on why readers love ‘The Hate U Give’ - LA Times

*https://youtu.be/OOac2vjHuyY

*http://www.apache-stronghold.com/

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1gNYFka1-s&t=1637s

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhmpQkEj3I8

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Nicolle and Eden discuss Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which has be challenged over two decades since the American Library Association began tracking in the ‘90s.

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References

* Toni Morrison's legacy of language

* Toni Morrison’s prose peels back the pain, beauty of Black experience

* Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision

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References

* “Black Queer Author George M. Johnson’s Family Showed Up To Fight Back Against A Book Ban — And They Won” - Buzzfeed News

* “The queer survival and coming-of-age book I needed as a child” - Scalawag

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References

* The Native Harvey Weinsteins (Blog)

* 'It Just Felt Very Wrong': Sherman Alexie's Accusers Go On The Record (NPR)

* American Genocide: A podcast about the crimes of Native American boarding schools (Illuminative)

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Today’s episode is a rerun of one of our favorite episodes. Nicolle and Eden discuss Dungeons & Dragons and the Satanic Panic with Adventure AI’s Jason Conforto, Tyler Crump, and Alex the Language Lord.

References

* It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic

* Stuff You Should Know Podcast: How Dungeons and Dragons Works

* Into the Dragon's Lair

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Listen and subscribe to Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a rating and review on Apple Podcast. This helps others find us, which will promote our mission to make banned books more accessible to all readers.

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References

* https://www.ala.org/united/friends

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References

* Laura Plantation

* “My Grandmother’s Hands” - Spotify

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