Banned Books Week 2025: The Current Top Ten Most Challenged Books
Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the top ten most frequently challenged books based on reports[…]
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Happy Anniversary, Peanuts!
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Today’s “Well, that’s interesting…”
I was just made aware of an upcoming novel in which a weight loss drug turns the main character into[…]
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Happy Hobbit Day!
Today is the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and therefore it is Hobbit Day! Have second breakfast and[…]
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Review: Baking Bad by Kim M. Watt
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Review: All the King’s Bastards by G. Lawrence
Summary: The King is dead… but who will live long now? A fateful accident upon the jousting field leaves Henry[…]
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Remembering the Professor
On this day in 1973, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien passed away at the age of 81. In addition to[…]
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First Line Friday, August 29
“Cambridge, Michaelmas term, October. The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought[…]
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