Pflugerville Public Library TeenSpace

1008 Pfluger Street, Pflugerville TX. 512-990-6375. www.pflugervilletx.gov/library

[weeklyspectator]

[lycrewe]

[omorales81]

It’s been said before: Comics are for everyone! That’s my approach: all are welcome to engage with my stories. I realize not everyone will vibe with my work and that’s OK. Find comics you love and share them! #MakingComics #ComicArt #ComicsAreForEveryone #WritingCommunity #Comics

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Rei Kurahashi aka くらはしれい aka Kurahashi Rei (Japanese, b. Gifu Prefecture, Japan) - 猫の居場所 (A Place for Cats), Painting

[bookgeekdom]

[averydaycomic]

A Very A-really-good-book Day

[vintagepromotions]

'Enjoy summer more - read books'

The New York Times poster encouraging the public to read books during summer featuring an illustration of William Shakespeare and a quote from Sonnet 18 (1966). Artwork by Bill Sokol.

[musingsofmonica]

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[makingqueerhistory]

How to Defend Books and Why

Danny Caine

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You're invited to the book revolution!

Fight back against censorship and empower your community with this close look at the book banning movement.

In a moving, compulsively readable call to arms for readers everywhere, Danny Caine, bestselling author of How to Resist Amazon and Why and How to Protect Bookstores and Why, offers an expertly-crafted confrontation of far-right, Christian nationalist attempts to reshape American culture through ban campaigns targeting schools, libraries, bookstores, and prisons, with the aim to silence marginalized identities in life and in literature.

From the first-ever banned books display at San Francisco's City Lights in the 1950s to the rapid rise of so-called Moms For Liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic to attempts to silence Palestinian authors, Caine charts the course of repressive censorship campaigns, along with the creative and sometimes unlikely activists who've stood up against them.

Each chapter is based on a particular book banning episode, bolstered by research and legal precedent, and concludes with helpful takeaways for further reading or resistance.

Throughout, Caine approaches these heated issues with gentle openness harkening back to his work as a public school teacher and a bookseller.

He emphasizes our collective responsibility towards art, free speech, and each other.

*Affiliate link above, this book was originally read as an ALC on Libro.fm*

[bookgeekdom]

[formerlyluckymanticore]

pros of having a large vocabulary: many words i know

cons of having a large vocabulary: many words i only know the vibe for

[polaroidpaladin]

I can't count how many times I've researched a word because I don't know exactly what it means, only vibes

[bookgeekdom]

[incidentalcomics]

Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

I'll be visiting Watermark Books today to read and sign POETRY COMICS. Go out and support your local bookshop!

[e-louise-bates]

Children’s novels, to me, spoke, and still speak, of hope. They say: look, this is what bravery looks like. This is what generosity looks like. They tell me, through the medium of wizards and lions and talking spiders, that this world we live in is a world of people who tell jokes and work and endure. Children’s books say: the world is huge. They say: hope counts for something. They say: bravery will matter, wit will matter, empathy will matter, love will matter.

Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

References Warhol? Check. Two narrators witnessing the same things through different eyes? Check. Hollywood sinking into the goddamned horizon like a literally fading star? Check.

[godzilla-reads]

“A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?”

Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

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