You’ve Never Seen Anything Like That Library* This week has been Banned Books Week in the US. I don’t think I have to convince you that banning books limits critical thinking, the sharing of ideas, and much more. From early childhood on (perhaps even before birth), exposure to a variety of reading…

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Do This, Don’t Do That* Forbidding or prohibiting things doesn’t seem to stop people from having or doing those things. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be any laws, but it does mean that passing laws doesn’t always change what people do. Some laws (like the US’s prohibition law of the 1920s) are…

In The Spotlight: Margie Deck’s With Remarkable Cunning: The Manservent of Merripit House and other Tales of Sherlock Holmes