Book: The Bookshop of Forbidden Books by Marc Levy

I hate the concept of banned books. I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was about 10 years old. I was reading a few books a week, just like I do today. My parents let me read anything on their shelves, and I read plenty of stuff way out of my age range. I remember reading James Michener’s The Drifters in the Bronx while visiting my mom’s parents, who both passed away when I was in seventh grade. I find everything about Florida’s House Bill 1467 (2022) to be grotesque. It requires a certified media specialist to select every book in a school library and spells out how books get removed, including when any parent or county resident objects to one. It also requires the Florida Department of Education to publish a list of every book districts removed after an objection and send it to the rest of the state’s school districts “for consideration in their instructional materials selection.” The 2025-26 list has more than 600 books removed from schools in 10 districts, including Margaret Atwood’s The…

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