Celebrate Freedom - Read Banned Books!

It's the 4th of July in America which means... nothing to celebrate. Instead, how about reading some banned books and pretending we still have some intellectual freedoms?

I have some super old banned books posts for you to peruse - guess I need to write some more for this year's Banned Books week in October!

What banned books are your favorite?

Book Bracket - Halfway Point

I thought it would be fun to make a book bracket this year, because apparently tracking every book I read isn't enough. I've been picking my favorite book read each month to fill out the first half, and here's how it looks:

Here are reviews for the books featured:

A New Day by Sue Mell

Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Montimore

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Magic Can’t Save Us: 18 Tales of Likely Failure by Josh Denslow

Skellig by David Almond

I have no clue who they'll go up against by the end of the year, but it's fun to see. Any predictions? Are you doing your own book bracket?