According to Goodreads, on this day five years ago, I was reading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. According to The American Library Association, Speak was one of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books between 2000 to 2009. It’s a vitally important novel and one I highly recommend.
Have you read it? In 2004 a film adaptation was released which I have also seen. Both the novel and the film offer a range of talking topics for parents of teens.
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This is a great post, I’m going to have a look at my goodreads. I just did a flashback type post too!
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Thanks! Just a bit of fun to look back. I’m also noticing significant shifts in my reading habits too which is interesting to note. Not so much with books like this one, but while scrolling back, I see some very different types of books that I don’t normally go anywhere near now.
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It’s like a red rag to a bull: they ban it, I want to read it…
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Yes! Every time! 😁
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Fancy that! Shame on me for being so lazy with my Goodreads archive, otherwise I’d go back and check mine out too 😅 I’ve not read Speak, but any book that gets banned or challenged goes straight on my TBR! Thank you!
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I read your banned books post last night and then later sat down to see what would come up in my search for a tbt post and what do you know! A banned book! 😂 Links thrown out by the universe.
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Another great post! Are you just going to your ‘Read’ bookshelf and scrolling back through the years to get this data? Is there an easier/quicker way or a shortcut I’m not aware of?
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Yes, just scrolling back through the read shelf. I was hoping you might pop up with an easier method as you know Goodreads better than me! I’ve poked around to see if you can search your own shelves by date, but if it exists, I can’t see it. It would be easier if I had created yearly shelves, but I only do that for AWW and Book Bingo.
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Thanks for your confidence! I just had a look at the Settings in my Read bookshelf on GR and no, there doesn’t seem to be a way to filter by year. You have to scroll as you describe above. I have the Settings on Infinite Scroll for all bookshelves and that removes the need to click on ‘next page’ etc. which is a minor time saver.
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Thanks for checking this out for me!
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