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JimWis

(1,751 posts)
21. My daughter is manager at BAM - Books A Million.
Sun Dec 10, 2023, 02:43 PM
Dec 2023

Her and her employees have set up a similar display of banned books a while back.

Boom! sheshe2 Dec 2023 #1
Separated but equal bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #2
Really? Every week of every year they feature special books, which requires setting up special sections... Hekate Dec 2023 #7
I think they are hitting back at the book bans Raven123 Dec 2023 #12
I prefer to think of it as "separate and therefore emphasized". EarnestPutz Dec 2023 #29
Freedom of the press or an advertising gimmick on their part to sell more books because they were banned? Wonder Why Dec 2023 #3
A book store is a book store is a book store. Hekate Dec 2023 #4
This place sometimes BannonsLiver Dec 2023 #23
Seriously, doesn't anyone remember the USA PATRIOT ACT and other bits after 9-11? It's horrifying. Hekate Dec 2023 #27
Both. After all, who benefits more from freedom of speech than a bookstore? Wounded Bear Dec 2023 #5
Our money is what consumer focused corporations want. markodochartaigh Dec 2023 #14
Gee whiz it's almost as if....businesses are out to make money!111 BannonsLiver Dec 2023 #22
And there is certainly a limit as to how much markodochartaigh Dec 2023 #25
Why not both? n/t Mr.Bill Dec 2023 #20
Both. Eating while walking. Who'da thunk that was possible. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #30
Yes bdamomma Dec 2023 #6
My Podunk Carnegie Library has been doing banned book displays for years Brother Buzz Dec 2023 #8
Same here. Libraries big and small where I live, book stores & The Book Den, a used-book store. Hekate Dec 2023 #10
I read My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love gratuitous Dec 2023 #9
That was a gratuitous pun, no doubt about it Hekate Dec 2023 #11
Accept no substitutes! gratuitous Dec 2023 #16
*SNORT* Skittles Dec 2023 #13
And this is why PlutosHeart Dec 2023 #15
The argument from conservatives is that these books aren't banned Prairie Gates Dec 2023 #17
Those days will return to America unless we stand together & understand that is what the book-banners want Hekate Dec 2023 #18
Chicago Public Libraries and independent bookstores here are doing it, too. mucifer Dec 2023 #19
My daughter is manager at BAM - Books A Million. JimWis Dec 2023 #21
None of these books are banned, of course. gulliver Dec 2023 #24
Your hope is that it stays limited. If Dic Trump gets in again, find a graveyard to whistle by. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #31
I'm not sure I understand how the parent can decide what the tablet makes available. llmart Dec 2023 #32
And nearby ... DoBW Dec 2023 #26
Good for B & N. The term "banned books" is shorthand for books that conservative culture warriors Timeflyer Dec 2023 #28
Many local bookstores are also doing it, and have been for some time. I have already bought two that I Escurumbele Dec 2023 #33
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