The Romance Bookie

Hey Everyone! So Banned Book Week was a couple of weeks ago, from September 21st-27th; and so this past week in my Child Literature class our teacher had us bring in a challenged or banned book.  She had preferred them to children's picture books, but said it was okay to bring a Young Adult novel.  Me, being the avid reader, and lover of the YA genre, brought two... Thirteen Reasons Why  by Jay Asher   and Speak  by Laurie Halse Anderson. Now, to be honest, I have read quite a few banned books, not intentionally, because they were banned or challenged, but because I wanted and also sometimes they were part of my English Literature curriculum in high school and Jr. High; but overall, before this past Monday night (when I have my class), I didn't have much of an idea of banning books.  I just always sort of assumed most people were against it, and that all people who were trying to ban books were narrow minded. Now, I'm not sure if this post will gather...

Back in the Fall of 2011, while I was taking first Early Child Development Class we were given an assignment...pick a movie from a list and discuss it.  Among that list was Speak . I'm going to be honest here...I had honestly never heard of the book before, let alone a movie!  But when I saw it featured Kristen Stewart (the star of one of my favorite book movie adaptations) I knew it was the movie I wanted to see. And dang, let me just say how GLAD I am that I did! It was almost a year later, when in July I was talking to Kody Keplinger (the author of The DUFF ) when she mentioned she LOVED this book called Speak .  At the time, I honestly hadn't been thinking about the movie, but after the video chat I went on Goodreads and looked it up and that was when I found out! As soon as I knew Speak (the movie) was based on a book, I KNEW I had to read that book! A few weeks ago I found Speak (the book) sitting on one of my friend's bookshelves, and pretty much hijacked...