The Shadow Ban Against Libraries and Books

                                    

I know the news is dark, and I have no desire to add to that darkness, so I’ve waffled for a few weeks about writing this blog post. In the end, I couldn’t not write it. I will, I promise, write something a bit lighter in the future. But not today.

Book censorship and book banning is a very real threat right now, not just in the US but also here in Canada. It’s growing at an alarming rate, it’s impacting schools and libraries in particular, and it’s...