Read-a-thon update

Today I was offered a baby sitting job on October 9 (the day of the read-a-thon) which will take up about 1/3 of my day. I took it. While it would have been nice to turn the job down and just read all day, I need the money to support my book and shoe habit. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a little reading between sessions of playing Barbies.

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em."

-John Waters

Meme Monday

 Here are the first five questions to a book meme. I'll try to post five more answers each Monday until I've finished this meme (there are 55 questions). Then I might move onto something else or find another meme. Meme is a weird word, but I figure Meme Mondays is nice because of the alliteration.

1. Favorite childhood book?

I loved series: The Baby-Sitters Club, The Boxcar Children, Animorphs, Nancy Drew, the Ramona Books. But I read so much more as a child than I do now, so it's difficult to remember which one was my favorite.

2. What are you reading right now?
Burning Bright by Tracy Chavalier and The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

3. What books do you have on request at the library?
I despise my library. Whenever I want a book, they never have it. I wanted to check out Wuthering Heights  by Emily Bronte one day, and they have ZERO copies.How is that possible!?

4. Bad book habit?
Buying them and then not reading them but I'm working on this.

5. What do you currently have checked out at the library?
See answer to 3. 

Banned Books Week

Like the title of this post says, this week is Banned Books Week. Read more about it here.

Also, here is a list of classics that have been banned or challenged. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne is on this list as a challenged book... which tells me that some people are seriously deranged.

In honor of the week (which I just learned about five minutes ago, so pardon my lack of information), I will read at least one of the books on the list. I'm going to try reading The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. I started it once before but feel that I've missed the right time in my life to read the book. We'll see if I'm right or if I can still appreciate it even though I'm not 16 any more.

If I finish that or decide that I want to read a different book, I'm going to read The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Happy reading to everyone whether you're reading a banned book this week or not.