Dementia - Reading Challenges discussion

Read 3 books that have been banned or people are trying to ban because of its content. You can find a list from here.

Completed 2 of 3

1) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
2) Twilight -Stephanie Meyers
3)

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1) Bridge to Terabithia
2) The Giver
3) Go Ask Alice
4) To Kill a Mockingbird
5) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

1) Bridge to Terabithia
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
3) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
4) A Light in the Attic

Here's my list

1)Speak
2)Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3)To Kill a Mockingbird

I've previously read 43 of the books on the list and will read 4 others (the only ones I could stomach) to complete this challenge.

READ: 4/4

Books from 1990-1999 list:
✔1. Earth’s Children (series), by Jean M. Auel
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Shelters of Stone
The Land of Painted Caves
✔2. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
✔3. Deenie, by Judy Blume
✔4. Cujo, by Stephen King
✔5. Ordinary People, by Judith Guest
✔6. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Beauty's Release
✔7. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
✔8. Carrie, by Stephen King
✔9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
✔10. Christine, by Stephen King

Books from 2000-2009 list:
✔1. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
a.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
b.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
c.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
d.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
e.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
f.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
g.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
✔5. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
✔8. His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
a.The Golden Compass
b.The Subtle Knife
c. The Amber Spyglass
✔14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
✔16. Forever, by Judy Blume
✔17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
✔18. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
✔19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
✔21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
✔28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson 8/3/12
✔36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
✔43. Blubber, by Judy Blume
✔67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
✔74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
✔87. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
✔90. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
✔91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George 8/19/12
✔95. Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix 11/27/13 DNF
✔96. Grendel, by John Gardner 2/16/13
✔99. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume

Books added for 2010:
✔1. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
✔2. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

I didn't realize The Hunger Games got banned.
What was sexually explicit? I get the violence angle.

I'm not sure as the website listed above doesn't list the reason.

There was a reason. It said sexually explicit and violent.

Explicit? Nothing was explicit in THG, at least not the first book (which is the only one I've read thus far).

Then again, Gatsby got banned on sex grounds and there was next to nothing about sex in that book.

They don't even talk about sex in the first book. People don't even read these books before they ban them.

Challenge: Banned Books
Duration: No time limit
Details: Read 3 books that have been banned or people are trying to ban because of its content.

Complete: 1/3

1. by Peg Kehret ★★★ 14 July 2012
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
3. Speak

Finished . What a terrible book! It's something you might enjoy if you were an English teacher or a perpetual student. Too much work to decipher.

Haha. I hate when you read a book and think that. I felt that way about A Wrinkle in Time.

I liked A Wrinkle in Time when I was a kid but reread it last year (?) and hated it. Go figure.

I wrote my grade 3-4 teacher and 5-6 teacher e-mails saying thank you for not having tortured me with Wrinkle back in elementary after having read the story. They both essentially said the same thing - they didn't want to torture themselves either. Then told me I was lucky I ended up in the advance classes, because back then everyone else was stuck reading it.

I tried to read (#95 on the list) and gave up 1/3 of the way. I don't particularly like dystopian and this one was incredibly boring. It just couldn't keep my attention. I guess it could be because I'm working too hard and nothing I'm reading is working for me right now. Oh well.