Banned Books

Banned Books available every where.Banned Books Week is about celebrating the freedom and importance of reading, the First Amendment, and ensuring the ability to share information whether it is popular or not, said Loretta McKinney, director of public services at the Murrieta Public Library.

Well, think again, especially if your idea of a good book includes best-sellers like Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series or Suzanne Collin’s the Hunger Games series; classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; or even children’s stories like E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.

That word deserves some explanation, since there are degrees of banned. In some communist countries, the Bible was banned, such that anyone in possession of one was considered a criminal. In modern Germany, it’s illegal to publish a book questioning the Holocaust. Here in Las Vegas,