[Vision2020] Palin and library books

[keely emerinemix]

>From Jeff's cousin -- interesting information about Sarah Palin and her attempts to get books banned from the Wasilla, Alaska, library when she was mayor.

Flicka????!!!!!!  Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary?????!!!!

OK, I guess "Our Bodies, Ourselves" isn't a surprise . . . 


Keely
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Let's spend a few moments browsing the list 
of books Mayor Sarah Palin tried to get town librarian Mary Ellen Baker to ban 
in the lovely, all-American town of Wasilla, Alaska.  When Baker refused to 
remove the books from the shelves, Palin threatened to fire her.  The story 
was reported in Time Magazine and the list comes from the librarian.net 
website.

I'm sure you'll find your own personal favorites among 
the classics Palin wanted to protect the good people of Wasilla from, but the 
ones that jumped out at me were the four Stephen King novels (way to go Stephen, 
John Steinbeck only got three titles on the list), that notorious piece of 
communist pornography "My Friend Flicka,"  the usual assortment of Harry 
Potter books, works by Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain 
(always fun to see those two names together), Arthur Miller, and Aristophanes, 
as well as "Our Bodies, Ourselves" (insert your own Bristol Palin joke here), 
and the infamous one-two punch of depravity:  "To Kill a Mockingbird" and 
"Little Red Riding Hood."  But the cherry on the sundae, the topper, is 
Sarah Palin's passionate, religious mission to clear the shelves of the Wasilia 
Public Library of that ultimate evil tome:  "Webster's Ninth New Collegiate 
Dictionary."  That's the one with " equality," "free speech" and "justice " 
in it.

Go over to your book case and 
take down one of the books you'll find on the list (I know you've got a couple) 
and give it a read in honor of the founding fathers.  Then tell me I'm not 
the only voter who doesn't want this woman within thirty feet of the United 
States Constitution. 

 Sarah Palin's Book Club
 
A Clockwork 
Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in 
Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My 
Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by 
William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy 
Blume
Brave New World by Aldous 
Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine 
Paterson
Canterbury Tales by 
Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen 
King
Catch-22 by Joseph 
Heller
Christine by Stephen 
King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen 
King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel 
Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael 
Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert 
Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur 
Miller
Decameron by 
Boccaccio
East of Eden by John 
Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter 
Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of 
Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For 
Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy 
Blume
Grendel by John Champlin 
Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve 
Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s 
Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and 
the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter20and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. 
Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of 
Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to G o by 
Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by 
Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by 
Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark 
Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by 
Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack 
Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice 
Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by 
Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by 
Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by 
D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt 
Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob 
and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by 
William Golding
Love is One of the 
Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by 
Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the 
Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is 
Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
M y Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander 
Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s 
Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of 
Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health 
Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat 
Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald 
Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to=2 
0Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary 
Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughte rhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.< br> 
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark 
Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by 
Mark Twain
The Bastard by John 
Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. 
Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert 
Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice 
Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by 
Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the 
Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of 
Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly 
Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The 
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The 
Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The 
Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living 
Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of 
Venice by William Shakespeare
The New 
Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence 
Sanders
The Shining by Stephen 
King
The Witches by Roald 
Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha 
Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy 
Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper 
Lee
Twelfth Night by William 
Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New 
Collegiate Dictionary--Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the 
Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth


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