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Sunday, July 23, 2006

book challenges

I work at a library, so of course I have to deal with the occasional book challenge. I've got a meeting about one tomorrow, in fact. I think that unlike the last one I had to do (a graphic novel which really could have gone either way, so far as what we decided to do with it), tomorrow's book challenge will be easy. Funnily enough, it's a book I tried to read a few years ago, by an author I sometimes enjoy. But this book is awful, filled with gratuituous and cliched sex. I should have re-read the whole dratted book for tomorrow's meeting, but - shush! I didn't. I can't stress enough that my decision tomorrow won't be based on how much I like the book - I'm better than that. It'll be based on the piles of objective data I (and a colleague) have piled up.
To get this challenged book out of my system, I re-read another book that features rape, Cynthia Voigt's Elske. I'll assume that I've blogged about Elske before, because I like Elske so much. I think Voigt's deliberate style can be over-the-top ("they ate and slept and washed their faces. They read and wrote and sometimes thought", from Tell Me if the Lovers are Losers), but it works well in her books about the Kingdom, especially Elske and Jackaroo.

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