Colleen Hoover Named to Time's 2023 Most Influential List

Book Censorship, Etaf Rum and More Wild Book News!

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Kyle Colley
April 13, 2023

Happy Thursday!

Longer newsletter today so buckle your seats because we are going petal to the metal!

Today's Table of Content:

  • šŸ“šEtaf Rum Book Recommendations

  • šŸ“™ Colleen Hoover Named to Time's Top 100 Most Influential List

  • šŸ“– Spotlight: Book Censorship and Banning

Shelf:

As always, say it with meā€¦ WE shout out our friends!

This week, NYTimes bestselling author Etaf Rum was spotlighted on Apple Book's "Meet the Curator" to share about her favorite books!

Etaf is a phenomenal writer herself (check out her book ā€˜A Woman is No Manā€™) so to see her list of favorites is truly a treat.

Let us know which of these books you are interested in reading!

Etaf also has a new book coming out this year, "Evil Eye" so make sure to grab a copy!

Here's her Instagram post if you do not have Apple Books.

Page:

You can love her, you can hate herā€¦ but regardless you will have to read about her!

CoHo (Colleen Hoover) is back in the spotlight as she was one of 100 people selected to Time's Most Influential People list.

Colleen Hoover is the author of books such as ā€˜Verityā€™, ā€˜Ugly Loveā€™, ā€˜It Ends with Usā€™ and her latest book ā€˜It Starts with Usā€™.

Literally you can't walk on a beach or go onto BookTok without seeing her books, so Colleen on this list is a no-brainer.

Additionally, her books have gotten more people into reading and buying book from independent bookstores in recent years, so she has helped the book market tremendously!

For the full scoop, check out our write up!

Colleen Hoover Named to Time's 2023 Most Influential List

Bestselling author Colleen Hoover has been named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world for 2023. www.readmoreco.com/blogs/book-news/colleen-hoover-named-to-times-2023-most-influential-list

Book:

We are putting our Inspector Gadget hats back on this week, to get to the bottom of this book censorship movement.

Over the past few months, books by Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine and even Gone with the Wind have recently been either rewritten, censored or demeaned as "hurtful and harmful."

If book banning wasn't bad even, now we are seeing books being altered for political agendas as well.

Speaking of book banning, you might remember that we talked about Florida in past newsletters, so we will look at Missouri who just voted to defund all public libraries! Yes, public librariesā€¦

The vote, if passed by their Senate, would defund the 45.6 Billion dollar state budget for public libraries.

Even legendary author Judy Blume has put in her two cent on the matter saying that she "doesn't believe in that" when it comes to rewriting classic literature and banning books.

Judy Blume faced book banning and censorship in the 80s when writing her books, ā€œForever...ā€ and ā€œAre You There God? Itā€™s Me, Margaret.ā€

"Blume, in her interview with Variety, referred to politician-led attempts to challenge books as ā€œthe real danger.ā€

ā€œWhat are you protecting your children from? Protecting your children means educating them and arming them with knowledge, and reading and supporting what they want to read,ā€ Blume said."

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Our take:

Outside of extreme cases, rewriting books is dangerous because in order to grow from our past, we must be willing to understand it and confront it. Modern generations should be able to look onto classic novels with critical eyes so that they can pave a brighter future. By censoring and rewriting books all we are doing is hiding that there were bad actors in the past.

Additionally, classical and historical books should be look at within their context so we can use them as teaching purposes for future generations.

Whether it's book banning or censoring we must push back on people trying to control narratives so history won't continue to repeat itself.

As a Book Media company, this is an important conversation because in real-time the landscape of the book market is changing. It's important for voices such as ourselves (and many others) to keep our readers engaged in these rapid developments. We aim to cover book news with limited bias and also like to give our "Expert" opinions unsolicitedly from time to timešŸ˜ŽšŸ˜‚Ā 

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See you next week!

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