Blog Post Forum Eight

Thirteen Reasons Why- Jay Asher
The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
Twilight(series) - Stephanie Meyer
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman
Harry Potter(series) - J.K. Rowling
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  As you can see I've read a lot of these books, and there are a lot more that I recognized on the lists. I quite frankly think that it's stupid that people are trying to ban literature. It's just ridiculous. I think that no matter how you try to ban things, your kids, or students, or anybody else, will have access to it. There's a thing called the internet, and you can gain access to just about everything. 12 year olds can gain access to porn, for goodness sake! I cannot stress how ridiculous I think this is. Books need to be accessible to all, if not how are we any different from countries who censor the internet or the media for that matter.
   I understand not having something like Fifty Shades of Grey in schools, that's understandable. I saw the movie and that was more then enough sex in it. It's totally acceptable to  try and keep children from reading that. That is the kind of thing that would be acceptable to keep out of schools. But I think that people focus too much on that kind of thing when there are much more important things like bullying that needs to be focused on. Kids these days have enough access that if you can't get it from one place, then you can easily find it in another place.
   As for my bookshelf, A couple that I do have on my bookshelf are Pulman, Collins, and Rowling, but that's just off the top of my head. I'm personally really into action books, but also books based on mythology related things, I read all of the original Percy Jackson series. I also have a couple books related to swimming, and animals, mostly dogs. I definitely am a person who wants to know more, and history has also been an interest of mine, and I have three dogs, which is why they hold a little more value to my than they may others.
   From what I can remember most of my books do come from bookstores like Barnes and Nobles, and the one close to downtown, here in Albany. As for e-books. I personally prefer to have actual books in my hand. I like holding it, and I like when I'm reading, to see the slightly yellowed pages, or the dog-ears of a book that I've read of and over. I think that my bookshelf will stay the same, because over the past couple years, it hasn't really changed.