This week is Banned Books Week. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know I bring this up each year. And I’m going to keep bringing it up until I don’t have to. Banned Books Week is a good time to renew a commitment to making sure that no-one is prevented from choosing and reading any book. Banning books doesn’t stop people thinking, but it does have all sorts of dangerous implications. I invite you to support the reading of all books (even ones you might not like). Try a new author, read a banned book, support your library and its efforts to keep books available.

I’m with the banned – are you?

*NOTE: The title of this post is a line from Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down.