The Chapel Hill Public Library, and apparently many other libraries around the country, have different sorts of "Banned Book Week" observations and projects. This library has a contest to design a cover for a "famous" banned, challenged, or censored book - 5" x 7" on paper. Some people submit photos or scans of larger works but I did this, actual size, with inks and watercolors. Seven winners receive a monetary prize and the submissions are made into trading cards that they sell. The winners get a few sets of cards and a "poster" of their work as well. I'd done it years ago but they hadn't had it for the past few years. Anyhow, it was fortunate that I had been studying and drawing whales for the last several weeks because it turns out that "Moby-Dick" was banned in 1996 by a school and/or district in Lindale, TX, because it âconflicted with their community valuesâ.
I just checked this book out... not sure yet if it belongs on Awful Library Books or not...:
Yeah, there's some wild stuff on that site. Speaking of predictions, this one Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilizationâs End - from 2007 - turned out to be a little off.
There's a story about the start of the Manhattan project where one of the physicists at the University of Chicago came home and told his wife a vague story about them having to move to Tennessee for a while. She went to the library and checked out a book on the State and saw that the last few people to check it out were wives of physicists. Good thing the Japanese weren't watching.
That's pretty funny. I do remember just opening books at random and seeing who had checked them out.
For your information it wasn't Little Billy the Quadriplegic Orphan at all! I was over at a friend's house and there it was by the front door so he'd remember to take it back to the library. Small towns. Remember when you could look at the little card and find out who else had checked out a book? Now you have to go door to door and just ask them.
There's a story about the start of the Manhattan project where one of the physicists at the University of Chicago came home and told his wife a vague story about them having to move to Tennessee for a while. She went to the library and checked out a book on the State and saw that the last few people to check it out were wives of physicists. Good thing the Japanese weren't watching.
It was Little Billy the quadriplegic orphans last wish to read that book.When he placed the hold online,the doctors and nurses all broke out in tears over his obvious joy about finding the book of his dreams.Don't worry about it though,he passed away the day before you returned it.Some say from a broken heart.His last words were "FU SFW".
For your information it wasn't Little Billy the Quadriplegic Orphan at all! I was over at a friend's house and there it was by the front door so he'd remember to take it back to the library. Small towns. Remember when you could look at the little card and find out who else had checked out a book? Now you have to go door to door and just ask them.
It was Little Billy the quadriplegic orphans last wish to read that book.When he placed the hold online,the doctors and nurses all broke out in tears over his obvious joy about finding the book of his dreams.Don't worry about it though,he passed away the day before you returned it.Some say from a broken heart.His last words were "FU SFW".
Small towns. Remember when you could look at the little card and find out who else had checked out a book? Now you have to go door to door and just ask them.