Comments on: On SPEAK (Or, why controversy works)

By: Vishy

Vishy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:17:27 +0000

Thanks for the nudge Cori :) I will add ‘Speak’ to my ‘TBR’ list and will look for it.

By: Cori

Cori — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:16:13 +0000

I highly recommend Speak — it’s so moving and, as I’m sure you’ve read on other blogs, it can make an impact in a lot of lives. Great book!

By: Cori

Cori — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:14:36 +0000

Wow…that was a moving poem. The Book Thief was one of the most difficult, beautiful books I’ve ever read.

By: Cori

Cori — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:13:48 +0000

Love you Jules! :)

By: Vishy

Vishy — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:06:58 +0000

Thanks for writing about this, Cori. I know that Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ is famous, but I haven’t heard of the other two books. Thanks to the controversy, now everyone is going to read them.

I liked your comment that Professor Weseley Scroggin has the right to air his views and others have a right to reply to his comments. I think parents are the right people to decide what a child can read, while the child is growing up.

By: Julie @ Knitting and Sundries

Julie @ Knitting and Sundries — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:33:25 +0000

I, too, had never heard of “Speak” prior to this controversy. (Twenty Boy Summer was already on my Not-So-Bebe Girl Autumn’s list of books for me to buy for her Christmas book box and Slaughterhouse Five was already on my “books to read before I die” list), so I’m thankful to Professor Scroggins for shining a light on a book that really SHOULD be required reading :)
Your mention of the Nazi book burnings as well as “The Book Thief” is a great, valid point. I just bought “The Book Thief” for Not-So this summer, and she wrote a poem about it before she was even done reading it: http://jewelknits.blogspot.com/2010/07/train-tracks-work-in-progress-poem.html

Kudos to everyone who has the courage to SPEAK LOUDLY!

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:11:06 +0000

Cori, you are right about a lot of things, but especially this. Thanks for speaking up. -Jules

By: Cori

Cori — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:08:40 +0000

I remember reading about the Nazi book burning in The Book Thief (amazing book!). I’m now reading about all sorts of crazy Nazi banning in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s biography by Eric Metaxas. It’s absolutely crazy.

By: Cori

Cori — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:07:32 +0000

“Couldn’t have backfired better.” LOVE IT.

By: Cori

Cori — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:06:40 +0000

You’d think that people who want to ban books would realize that it makes people want to read them even more! They’d probably be better off if they left well enough alone.