What Fiction are you reading this week, November 10, 2024? [View all]

Libraries have done so much to shape our humanity and our country.


The previous Trump administration proposed gutting federal funding for libraries every year he was in office.
We have since seen local attacks on libraries and the freedom to read across the country. Over a dozen states have enacted or attempted to enact legislation calling for prosecuting librarians and library workers. Now, state-by-state efforts to criminalize books and label the profession as offenders are succeeding. Book bans are key to Project 2025’s plans to discredit librarians and dismantle libraries.

Books like James, which I just finished reading, are likely to disappear from library shelves. Which would be terrible, as it's quite important and informative. Hint: slavery was not a pleasant lifestyle. Everett has written quite a few books. I'm going to look for Telephone which was nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Listening to Cold Days by Jim Butcher. I had never heard of this series before and this is book #16 in The Dresden Files. As a fantasy about wizards and such it was easy enough to figure out what all was going on without reading the others. It's quite entertaining and funny. Well written and well read.

Stock up on good books while you can.