Banned Books Week and the October Bookclub Pick
Happy Wednesday!
Next week is Banned Books Week!
I am so excited that I decided to open up our book club for October!
So tell your friends because we are reading the #3 most banned book in America:
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
From the Book Description
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Why has The Bluest Eye Been Banned?
Reasons cited have included, “sexually explicit material,” “lots of graphic descriptions and lots of disturbing language,” and “an underlying socialist-communist agenda.” One complaint simply called it a “bad book.”
Content Warnings
The moral issues explored are extremely mature and include incest, rape, sexual dysfunction, racism, marriage, and prostitution.
Where to Get the Book
This section contains paid links. There is no cost to you, but if you click and buy from a link in this section, I may be able to afford a high-priced fall-flavored coffee.
Support a local bookstore and Get this book on Bookshop.org
Get is on your Kindle or delivered quickly with Amazon.com
Listen to it on Libro.FM or Audible ( extra credit here because Toni Morrison HERSELF is narrating along with Ruby Dee)
Your Local Library! If your library is like mine, there is a banned book section right in front.
I will send out an outline of how we will proceed with this book next week.
The content is hard. I’m not going to lie. But this book DESERVES a deep read at least once in your life. The Bluest Eye is an excellent book.
I can’t wait to read this classic with you!
LaShawn