Today I found out that the Hunger Games got added to the list of banned books. I own the whole triology on my Kindle Paperwhite. I bought them all shortly after I got it in 2013. For whatever reason it seems that the third book, Mocking Jay, is no longer in my library. And I can't download the full book on my phone from the app either. Even though I've already paid for this book 10 years ago.
I adore this series and read it over and over. I saw it got put on the banned books list and decided to read them all over again because I thought there's no way they could remove a book I already owned. But it seems that might've been the case. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire are still the, e but I have to wonder, for how long. As far as I'm concerned, book bans hadn't affected my state nor my city. But I feel like I've been stolen from.
This is one of the many reasons book bannings are bad. It's first of all unconstitutional because it infringes on the First Amendment. But also that money I spent on that book as a 14 year old who worked hard to earn that money to buy my favorite series which before I could only get from the Library, is now stolen as well. Undermining that hard work years down the line.
