She Treads Softly: Palin banned books rumor

Friday, September 12, 2008

Palin banned books rumor

Let's stop the spread of this stupid false rumor.

According to Snopes.com, the leader in defining internet pranks, the list of library books banned from the Wasilla, Alaska, Public Library by then Mayor Sarah Palin is False.

This rumor is easy to disprove, especially since many of the titles weren't even published at the time she was mayor...

2 comments:

Wendi said...: Good for you for helping to disprove that rumor - I hate it when people start rumors, so Thank Goodness for Snopes and people like you who are willing to share the truth! I've enjoyed your blog!!; September 13, 2008 at 7:37 PM
Lori L said...: Thanks, Wendy! I was tired of seeing the rumor forwarded and spread on book groups and book blogs so it was time to say something.; September 14, 2008 at 11:51 AM

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.