Category: banned books
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Let’s talk about sex
“In case you’re curious,” I once told the grandchildren, “Granddaddy and I have never had sex on the dining room table.” “Nana!” they shouted in embarrassment. I thought it important for them to know that sex between loving adults is not expressed in a frenzy of the aggressiveness they see on HBO or Netflix. Book…
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Of What Value is a Book?
A few weeks after I arrived to spend a year with a German family in Berlin, I celebrated my sixteenth birthday. They gave me two books: The Diary of Anne Frank and Cry, the Beloved Country. These two books informed my life as no other books have. Until then I had no knowledge of the Holocaust, no idea that…
Nancy Werking Poling 