This Week in Words – Sept 28
by Treehouse Editors
compiled by Rachel Bondurant
I’ve been talking about this book a lot. So how about I let someone else give it a try for a change? Say, Steve Almond?
This past Tuesday was National Punctuation Day!!! ! &…. That’s how one celebrates, I suppose? — Anyway, Mary Norris ruminates about NPD (that acronym is going to catch on, I can feel it) over at The New Yorker.
Also this week, and ending today, is Banned Books Week! My favorite literary week of the year! MediaBistro offers a list of this year’s most challenged books – which you can also find here – and links to samples of each. Do yourself a favor though: don’t read the sample for 50 Shades of Grey. It claims to have been banned for being “sexually explicit” and containing “offensive language,” which I think means curse words and such, but if you’ve read any of it, you know they mean it’s offensive to the institution of language.
Recommended reading: Go here, read about banned or challenged books, then select one and read it. If you’re overwhelmed with too many choices, you can start with the list of my favorites I wrote last year.
Despite the fact that my best friend told me she was ready to push Edna into the ocean by the end of The Awakening, I am as much a sucker for it as you are. I had to read it on 3 separate occasions for various college classes, and I was one of few (if not only) defenders of Chopin’s work. Go Team Edna!