Banned Books Week is Almost here!

The 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week is coming up soon, it starts on September 30th - October 6th. I love promoting Banned Books Week, this is my third year participating in it and I almost missed it because of the reading and blogging funk I’ve been in. If you want to participate on something different and fun to show some support for your freedom to read, there’s this thing called the Banned Books Virtual Read-Out where you can submit a video of yourself reading and talking about a book that’s been in the banned books list to this website. They will feature the videos on the Banned Books Week Youtube channel. Your video can be no longer than two minutes and you must have a youtube/gmail account in order to submit it. It’s very easy to create one if you don’t already have one, just go to ALA website for easy directions on how to do it and for more information. If you’re camera shy like me you can make a video montage, I think I will try to make a video though which is really hard for me because I hate my voice, so we’ll see how that turns out. If you want check out a list of books that have been banned or challenged just click here and to the left of the page you will have the option to see the list of books by decade, year or author name. Here’s another list in alphabetical order.

Some helpful websites:

http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/

ALA.org

http://www.ila.org/advocacy/banned-books

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A little Update and Some New Goals

So as you can tell I haven’t been around for the past four months. Life has been crazy, but everyday I kept saying I will go back to the blog soon, I’ll make time tomorrow, over and over.. well that just didn’t work very well since it’s been months. With the addition of the new baby and a lot of other life changing stuff going on around me it got really hard to keep up with the reading and the blogging. I’ve been on a reading slump I think for over a month now, the longest one yet, and it’s been driving me crazy. I feel sad when I look at my pile of books and have no desire to pick one up, when before I couldn’t bear to be without a book in my hand or purse. I’m hoping to come back soon, hopefully by next week since it’s Banned Book Week and I’ve always loved to do something during that week to make people aware and inspire to read more.

The pressure just got to be too much, I didn’t have the passion for blogging and reading anymore. I felt like I wasn’t doing it for the love of reading like I had at the beginning when I started the blog but just to keep up with everyone else, and with everything else going on in my life it became too much and I even contemplated on deleting the whole blog. But I hate quitting and feeling like I can never finish anything which does happen often... So I’m really glad I didn’t, because I finally started reading again, just picked up a Sarah Dessen book yesterday which I think will get me out of this slump like she always does. This time though I won’t pressure myself to read because I have to blog about it, or to even blog every day or every other day even. I’m going to start again to do it because I love it and I want to share my thoughts and feelings about the stuff I read, I won’t rush through a book to be done in one day or two, that’s just impossible for me now with the new baby and me going back to school next semester, instead I’ll just take my time and enjoy it. I will definitely not push myself to read crappy books that I can’t get into, that’s such a waste of time. There’s way too many books on my pile to be wasting time on those that are just not for me. So hopefully I can start again soon, and I hope to still have some readers out there.

*I’m also looking to change the blog up a bit, I’m tired of the layout and the header so if you know of anybody that can do that and won’t charge some crazy prices for a new one please let me know. Thanks!!*

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