Category: L’Engle
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Do You Love a Banned Book?
It’s banned books week! http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm Some of my favorite authors have banned books and books that have attempted to be banned from schools and libraries. Katherine Paterson, Madeleine L’Engle, and Laurie Halse Anderson are three that come to mind. Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia is my favorite novel of all-time. Some parents have concerns about…
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Literary Defeat
I’ve lost a battle with a book. Not just any book, but a classic. A standard from this past century in the literary library of the greats. One of the most referenced works I’ve come across in articles and books about the craft of writing. And I quit! My brain was having too much trouble…