Hey! Guess what! It was recently Banned Books Week! In case you didn’t know. I guess some people don’t pay attention to celebrating banned books. Personally—probably because I pretty much only follow libraries, publishers, and authors—my Twitter feed was exploding with #bannedbooksweek and #bannedbook, and of course #MCL150 since Multnomah County Library’s sesquicentennial celebrate magically coincided with BBW. The party for MCL was amazing—marching bands, ballet, opera, Bollywood dancing—the entertainment was top notch, and the food—Salt & Straw, Case Study Coffee (special biblio blend!), Voodoo Doughnuts—really showcased Portland’s love affair with caffeine and sweets. And, of course, MCL’s giant library card came out. I was pleased that the late September weather was cool enough to justify fall wear, I got to break out the cool “bookworm” socks that kinda-sorta matched my tights.
Aside from the awesome shindig that was the MCL 150 party I (sadly) didn’t do much to celebrate BBW. I think the books I read that week were almost all proofs, some of them may have even been too new to have been banned yet (knowing about all the crazy people out there I am sure most of them will be censored somewhere, by someone, at some point—guess I was observing BBW with future banned books). In reality I celebrated by doing homework, more homework, and hanging out at the library; pretty much how I celebrate every week!
