{"id":1380,"date":"2006-09-22T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/22\/banned-books\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T20:32:00","slug":"banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/22\/banned-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/googlebooks\/banned\/\">Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read<\/a>, released to coincide with Banned Books Week (September 23-30).  I dream of one day writing something audacious enough to provoke such strong reactions from my readers.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say that all art has to be &#8220;challenging,&#8221; but I think the most interesting art defies expectations in some way.  It doesn&#8217;t have to be surprising, like a twist ending to a story, but it should be revelatory, even if subtly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of books&#8230; I just finished reading the late Octavia E. Butler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0446361887\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Mind of my Mind<\/span><\/a>, which was published in 1977.  It&#8217;s pretty sparse as far as novels go, and a lot of things go unspoken but are clearly set-ups for future stories in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patternist_series\">Patternist series<\/a>.  Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read, released to coincide with Banned Books Week (September 23-30). I dream of one day writing something audacious enough to provoke such strong reactions from my readers. I wouldn&#8217;t say that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}