Well, I do have to state that the small library in my present town, Just a Bunch More West texas maga, New Mexico, does have a copy of "Opus Pistorum" on the open shelves. (I didn't put it there.) I'm not sure anyone else knows that it is there.
True library/book lovers are usually swell people. There is a weird trend in England these days toward calling libraries "discovery centers," which sounds like a kids' museum to me, as well as an effort to not admit that these institutions involve...well, books. When I asked an Oxfam bookseller what he thought of this, several actual English people in line behind me, whom I had never seen before, actually started talking to me, an actual American, as if we'd been friends forever. Books bond!
what I am seeing is a confusion between removing books from the curricula that are taught, and removing books from library shelves altogether. Removing books from what teachers *make* children read =/= removing books from those who *want* to read them
The ones I remember didn't seem all that expensive. Most of the books were paperbacks. This was maybe 15 years ago, though. The things I didn't like were the stupid trinkets.
Little paperback books cost eight or ten dollars. We're a poor district. We've seen kids come in with dirty coins they dug up gawd knows where. It's sad. I started donating money to help kids who didn't bring enough.
no one is forcing them to read those books. if they want to control what their children see, they need to supervise and pre approve every book their child wants to look at in the library in real time, not just force everyone to dumb down to their level. what they are really saying here is that they want to be able to use the library as a baby sitting service while stopping their kid from learning there are world views other than the one spouted at home
maybe it is possible to be a gay christian if you're in one of the lighter versions of the religion, not a fundie? and conservative may mean 'i don't go in for wild swings of opinion or big steps in policy'? he may be using the words, but not mean them the same way.Or he could be a a german who does cross fit and vapes (an old trope)
more like bwaz for framboise, and bwazay for boisé. the word means "woodsy", like "there are woods there". americans, i think, say boyzee. at least, some of my many in-laws live there and do.
Those in Idaho was practice and promote racism/white supremacy and white christian nationalism want the only books in libraries to be - bibles...
Wow....yeah.
Well, I do have to state that the small library in my present town, Just a Bunch More West texas maga, New Mexico, does have a copy of "Opus Pistorum" on the open shelves. (I didn't put it there.) I'm not sure anyone else knows that it is there.
True library/book lovers are usually swell people. There is a weird trend in England these days toward calling libraries "discovery centers," which sounds like a kids' museum to me, as well as an effort to not admit that these institutions involve...well, books. When I asked an Oxfam bookseller what he thought of this, several actual English people in line behind me, whom I had never seen before, actually started talking to me, an actual American, as if we'd been friends forever. Books bond!
what I am seeing is a confusion between removing books from the curricula that are taught, and removing books from library shelves altogether. Removing books from what teachers *make* children read =/= removing books from those who *want* to read them
Ta, Dok.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi!
The ones I remember didn't seem all that expensive. Most of the books were paperbacks. This was maybe 15 years ago, though. The things I didn't like were the stupid trinkets.
Little paperback books cost eight or ten dollars. We're a poor district. We've seen kids come in with dirty coins they dug up gawd knows where. It's sad. I started donating money to help kids who didn't bring enough.
Back then there were many around $3.99 or $4.99, which is not nothing, but that was also a long time ago.
no one is forcing them to read those books. if they want to control what their children see, they need to supervise and pre approve every book their child wants to look at in the library in real time, not just force everyone to dumb down to their level. what they are really saying here is that they want to be able to use the library as a baby sitting service while stopping their kid from learning there are world views other than the one spouted at home
maybe it is possible to be a gay christian if you're in one of the lighter versions of the religion, not a fundie? and conservative may mean 'i don't go in for wild swings of opinion or big steps in policy'? he may be using the words, but not mean them the same way.Or he could be a a german who does cross fit and vapes (an old trope)
"Or he could be a a german who does cross fit and vapes (an old trope)"
Or a vegetarian who smokes (me)
more like bwaz for framboise, and bwazay for boisé. the word means "woodsy", like "there are woods there". americans, i think, say boyzee. at least, some of my many in-laws live there and do.
I love "we have books that define Marxism" (you fucking idiots) do the reading lady.
Bowling alleys in Colorado also too ... I've heard.