Loving Literary

I might have loved to get into those gruesome horror stories from Stephen King as a youngster, but it was when I had a particular English teacher in high school when I found my true love in books. This English teacher thought it would be great to assign banned books all year - no books that were not banned were allowed. He received a lot of angry letters and phone calls from parents, other teachers and the school district. Somehow though, he managed to make it all year without getting fired.

That year I read To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Cage, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, The Bastard Out of Carolina, The Catcher in the Rye, and Fahrenheit 451. I am sure I could remember more if it weren’t so long ago!

That one year was the best reading I had ever had. It was shocking, tear jerking, laugh out loud reading. I learned about other people’s life situations that I had no idea even existed. I became wiser from it.  I have read them all many times since then and became quite the advocate against censorship on books in my school.

However, there was and still is one favorite censored book of mine: 1984 by George Orwell. What a fantastic story!  It made me gasp, cry, laugh, and most importantly think about the world around me. You grab a copy for yourself here .

Until next time,

What is your all time favorite book?