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Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. https://bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans.
Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.

Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address, always presenting as a marketing or PR expert) has really read the book,Read More

My late father had a lot of old (c. 2000?) Macintosh books. Are these of interest to anyone?
I can't guarantee I'd be able to dig up any CD-ROMs that came with them, but it's possible. And you'll need to be patient because they're located 100 miles from me.

These students advocate for books to stay on shelves. They say their club is about more. • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/09/23/repub/students-book/

#TIL dank @…: auch in #münster gibt es einen silent book club:

Ein #Lesetipp, den ich Euch momentan besonders ans Herz legen möchte, weil wir uns wieder in Richtung der Zeiten bewegen, von denen dieser Roman, der auf einer realen Person basiert, handelt:
The Personal Librarian
https://

For those of us listening (or reading) along at home. Finally got around to grabbing the 5th Thursday Murder Club audiobook. I will relisten to the first 4 before starting the new one.v Relaxing comfort listening.
#ThursdayMurderClub #RichardOsman

When I do web dev, I don’t just work in the DOM, I put on a pencil moustache and work in the MANDOM.
Pat didn’t know it when he made the shirt, but it’s a guys’ web dev shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/78574049-mandom
(Or a shifter smut lady book club tank, as it t…

I love it when kids get told "no" and plow ahead anyway. #Iowa #bannedbooks #libraries

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

I’ve mentioned before that podcasts aren’t my jam. Except when shoveling. Maybe. Tech podcasts make we want to throw down my shovel and write stuff.
Stumbled across ‘A Meal of Thorns’ from ‘Ancillary Review of Books’ (“an experiment in utopian criticism”):
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/ame

Podcast
Latest Episode: About the Podcast: A Meal of Thorns is a critical book club hosted by Jake Casella Brookins. Each episode, we’ll be looking closely at works of speculative fiction, thinking a…