My parents' bookshelves would not have passed Danielle Smith’s book banning test
BACKGROUND : Danielle Smith is the premier of Alberta, a province in western Canada. Her government recently introduced legislation requiring local school boards to remove certain books from their shelves. Backlash ensued and the Smith government has revised the legislation . We can imagine where this might end... My thoughts are below. I don't have a photo of my parents' bookshelves. So here is my own shelf of "To Be Read" books: eclectic, including children's pony books that I now read for comfort; my e-reader (on the top) holds everything from mysteries to memoirs, from books on the craft of writing to cookbooks, and more. I can remember moving my finger along the spines of the books that sat on the shelves that lined the living room walls in every house we lived in during my childhood — the same teak shelves, holding the ever-growing collection of eclectic books my parents brought into the house. I was never looking for anything specific. I was exploring. ...