Picture This Post invites you, your online book community or your book club to join in our effort to spotlight banned books that others want to silence.
Read as many banned books as your book club can schedule.
Compile testimonials for each book club/community member on why and how this banned book is important for our culture.
Write a study guide on each book for other book groups and book communities that emphasizes the title’s contribution to our culture, arming those who are fighting the book’s ban.
Record a zoom discussion of your book group discussion – sharing it on the Picture This Post YouTube Channel.
Keep track of efforts to ban the book/s you adopt; help share your book group’s passionate testimonials, discussions and study guides.
Share your book club’s compilations in book events online, in bookstore, at book fairs, and more.
Help publicize the growing list of forward-thinking organizations fighting censorship whom all concerned about this issue can donate to.
Join the Picture This Post editorial team and write a formal book review of banned books in PICTURE THIS style.
In 1933, Nazis burned works of Jewish authors, and other works considered “un-German”
About the Author: In 1933, Nazis burned works of Jewish authors, and other works considered “un-German”
About the Author: Banned Books Project Editorial Team
Are you also alarmed by the rise of book banning in America?
Through spotlighting those involved in the fight against book banning, Picture This Post seeks to provide both an overview of this issue and suggestions on how you can join the groundswell of resistance to this latest chapter in censorship of artistic expression.
If you and/or your book club or book community wants to Adopt a Banned Book -- or in other ways add to this timely conversation --please write to bannedbookspicturethispost@gmail.com.
