Friday, April 25, 2014

Good idea …

… Sightings: Why Not Save the Indignation for Something Worthwhile? - WSJ.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… I'm struck by the fact that these books, as well as the other most-frequently challenged titles of the 21st century, are for the most part—if I may say so—rather less than stellar in quality. Except for "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Brave New World, "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Of Mice and Men," none of the books on the ALA's hot sheet comes close to qualifying as a bonafide classic. (No, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is not a classic.) If they're remotely typical of the fare that your kids are bringing home from the school library, it strikes me that you might want to consider taking to the streets for reasons other than the fact that some of them contain four-letter words.

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