Free People, Read Freely

"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." -- Claude Adrien Helvetius

Many authors we now take for granted on our library shelves have often been denied to the reading public. A common practice in totalitarian societies, we don’t think book bans happen in America, but they do. The Grapes of Wrath, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Catcher in the Rye, Call of the Wild, Beloved, Don Quixote, and Fahrenheit 451 (a book about banning books) have all been burned, banned or withheld from readers in America and abroad. September 27th through October 4th is Banned Books Week, but here in the BLRC we’re observing for the entire month of September with books that someone didn’t want you to read. Use your library and exercise your right to read, and think, freely. Free People Read Freely ~ Laurie