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1
Boy I thought they'd be talking about Flight which is about a runaway and will make you cry if you have any heart at all... yay, new Sherman Alexie to read. Tell him not to worry- only the best books make it on the banned list!
2
If we give these kids guns, maybe they'll be protected from this evil book.
4
Nancy Pearl, book genius, said on KUOW today that she is going to Bosnia to organize a mass book reading of Mr. Alexie's book (what if all of Bosnia read the same book). She seemed very excited and I wonder what the reaction to the book will be there.
5
Banning books has, historically, always been a sign of civilized debate and open-mindedness.

Right up there with book burnings.
6
My kid (8th grade) gets to read it with his class starting right after break. I'm so happy for him. I re-read it so we could talk about it. Just finished last night, in fact.
7
Look, people trying to keep books away from teens are pathetic idiotic prudes, and it is right and good that we oppose them.

But removing a book from reading lists is not a ban.  Can we please not be the Fox News of the left?
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@7: The American Library Association defines challenges and bans like this: "A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials." Go ahead and read the whole Herald article; I'd say there's quite clearly a discussion about removing the books from classrooms and schools. Sorry if my lede was misleading (ha-ha).
10
Alexie is awesome.
11
During the early 1930s the Nazis did not burn Bertoldt Brecht's books. He said that made it clear that either they didn't read his work, or they didn't understand it.

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