tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post4822199104083236344..comments2023-07-17T06:54:08.745-04:00Comments on A Wilderness of Words: Bare-naked MickeyMary Piercehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281543130323388421noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post-83186731983775157022014-06-19T05:25:25.423-04:002014-06-19T05:25:25.423-04:00Hi I'm looking for your contact info for a boo...Hi I'm looking for your contact info for a book review/post?<br />Can you email me at EdenLiterary at gmail dot com<br />Deirdrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13725424353311165246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post-58033501231937765012012-10-08T21:16:02.204-04:002012-10-08T21:16:02.204-04:00Both my boys and I LOVE In the Night Kitchen and M...Both my boys and I LOVE In the Night Kitchen and Maurice Sendak and yeah, they would giggle that Mickey was naked, but they got over it. Oy. What a crazy Puritan society we've got, huh? That book is terrific and banning books...quite frankly...isn't. <br /><br />You're fantastic too, Mary. Great post! Linda Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285985403444531922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post-1654972127847428412010-10-05T21:00:21.045-04:002010-10-05T21:00:21.045-04:00Shawna - I doubt that those who challenge books, b...Shawna - I doubt that those who challenge books, bother to read them all the way through. It's like they're only looking for something that offends them so that they can flaunt their high moral standards. I don't really understand it either.<br /><br />Barb - Excellent point! Your college art story brought to mind the Robert Mapplethorpe fracas back in the 80's. His shows were mobbed after the Corcoran Gallery refused to show his work. Maybe in your next 'Tex & Sugar' book, you could have Tex trying to make a living taking photos of studly male cats without their shirts, and Sugar could try to make a go of singing, Lady Gaga style!<br /><br />Lynda - interestingly, in the piece that Scroggins wrote about SPEAK, he also slammed sex education and teaching kids about reproduction, because he was sure it would promote the idea of teens going out and "using condoms to have sex." <br /><br />Thanks, ladies for your comments!Mary Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16281543130323388421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post-30226933892018991022010-10-05T10:55:16.007-04:002010-10-05T10:55:16.007-04:00Yes, I know of many authors who go to sleep at nig...Yes, I know of many authors who go to sleep at night, hoping their book will be banned--for commercial reasons, alone.<br /><br />I think, like so many other things in the world that are backwards, banning comes out of fear. People think that if they shelter children from material they deem inappropriate, that they are somehow protecting them. That, perhaps, if a girl doesn't know about date rape, it can't happen to her. These banners must realize that well educated is better prepared. <br /><br />IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN is an adorable book! I couldn't believe that this made the list!!<br /><br />Great post, Mary! And, yes, Barb. You should write something racy! ;-)Lynda Mullaly Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16961970871486720609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post-91097819351335706412010-10-03T11:25:03.692-04:002010-10-03T11:25:03.692-04:00I wonder if those who seek to ban a book would sto...I wonder if those who seek to ban a book would stop if they realized that that kind of attention, even negative as it is, is a sure-fire way to insure that those very books will be more likely to be read. Often it rescues otherwise mediocre books from obscurity and elevates them into a grander realm. I might go out of my way to read a banned book before one that has receives great accolades (said the eternal adolescent in me).<br /><br />There was an art show of the art work of an 80 yr old woman in a small college that I attended that caused an uproar and was threatened to be shut down because of explicit content. The work was just OK, but it was the best attended exhibit at the school to that date because of the controversy. It was my first understanding of the power of "buzz and spin."<br /><br />Maybe I need to go off and write something racy.....;-)Barbara Johansen Newmanhttp://johansennewman.typepad.com/cats_and_jammers_studio/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915138035740540877.post-11636412553809249822010-10-03T01:21:10.098-04:002010-10-03T01:21:10.098-04:00Speak is challenged over and over again and I can ...Speak is challenged over and over again and I can never understand it, yes there is a brief violent scene in the beginning, but the book is about how to deal with trauma. I have never(and will never) wrapped my mind around why people still today choose ignorance and stupidity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12902527494234322787noreply@blogger.com