451°

I’d be doing my MS program a huge disservice if I didn’t mention this week was Banned Books Week; which “highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States” (ALA.org).

Crazy to think these great works were at one point, and probably still are somewhere in the nether-regions of the US, banned:

book_cover_of_mice_and_men

 
book_cover_leaves_of_grass

 
book_cover_the_catcher_in_the_rye

book_cover_candide

 

book_cover_to_kill_mocking_bird

 

book_cover_ulysses

And of course…

book_cover_fahrenheit_451

 Celebrate the freedom to read.

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