Oprah Has A New Book Club!
And Oprah Winfrey’s first book selected for this global book club with Apple is–drum roll, please!–The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates will be interviewed by Winfrey on Oprah’s Book Club, a new Apple TV+ series that will premiere November 1st. And if you buy Oprah’s Book Club selections through Apple Books, a contribution will be made to the American Library Association. Really looking forward to see all the books that will be chosen!
Banned Books Week Is Upon Us
The 11 most challenged books of 2018–absolutely no drum roll for this BS–have been released by the ALA: “at least 347 challenges were filed seeking to remove 483 books from libraries or schools.” And the phobics have been busy as more than half of the challenged books were targeted because of LGBTQIA+ content. You can check out the list here.
Know Her Name
Chanel Miller has written a memoir, Know My Name, publicly coming forward as the woman sexually assaulted by Brock Turner: “‘I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am,’ she writes. ‘However, I am not Brock Turner’s victim. I am not his anything.'” Learn about Miller, as a full person, and her memoir here.