Owl's Nest, Fredericton

One of the best, most chaotic and interesting used bookstores I've ever visited --------- owlsnest-bookstore.com

blayne from ohio.

Vulgar! Inappropriate!

I took it upon myself to create a display at work for this year's Freedom to Read week (Feb. 20-26) and with the assistance of two helpful and talented co-workers, came up with this:

More images here.





And for some further reading on the subject, but in no way a complete list:

Challenged books and magazine from the Freedom to Read website.

Read the Ontario Library Association's Statement on the Intellectual Rights of the Individual here.

Judy Blume discusses censorship and challenges to her own work here and here.

A Small Sampling of Publications Seized or Detained by Canada Customs (updated in 1997)

Article from the Toronto Star: "Vampire series tops list of ‘challenged’ books in Canada"

2010: The Year of The Walking Dead (and some other books too)

Books read in 2010: In order of reading from left to right, top to bottom (see list below):


1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Pedro & Me by Judd Winick
3. Sylvia Plath Selected Poems chosen by Ted Hughes
4. From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium edited by Steffen P. Maarup
5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
6. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
7. The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone By by Robert Kirkman
8. The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
9. Market Day by James Sturm
10. The Walking Dead Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
11. The Walking Dead Volume 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman
12. The Walking Dead Volume 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
13. The Walking Dead Volume 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
14. The Walking Dead Volume 7: The Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
15. The Walking Dead Volume 8: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
16. The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn
17. The Walking Dead Volume 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman
18. The Walking Dead Volume 10: What We Become by Robert Kirkman
19. Locavore by Sarah Elton
20. Kicking at Clouds: A Winter in Palestine 2003/04 by Sonya McRae (zine)
21. The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear the Hunters by Robert Kirkman
22. The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
23. The Walking Dead Volume 12: Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman
24. The Case for Books: Past, Present & Future by Robert Darnton
25. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

-COLLECTIONS ON PARADE-

YOUTH DECAY:
An arrangement of selected zines & related miscellany from the collection of liisa graham acquired during the mid to late 1990s.

CASES & SIGNS:
A permanent installation of a variety of printer's joinery & industry themed signage collected over the past eight years by Nicholas Kennedy.

The gallery at Trip Print Press is fascinated with collections of all kinds. Located in unit 402 at the Ward Street Works - 224 Wallace Avenue Toronto Ontario Canada.

tripprintpress.ca
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