Book Banning . . . Attempt (GG)
Some teen girl's mom here (or in this area) kept four Gossip Girl books out of the public library for a year in protest (and got an $85 fine that she's not paying so far)... (and I know that's a ill phrased sentence.)
She doesn't like the 'Costco sized box of condoms' mentioned and the sex and drugs. She wanted a label put on the books before she'd agree to return them. The library disagreed, though and said that would be a matter of opinion--they did move them to the adult section, though (which isn't giving in b/c anyone can still check them out....).
I can get not liking the content of Gossip Girl books--and some other YA books, easily. There's tons of sex and drugs and drinking and whatever in a lot of books, but a) this was a year ago so it was,I think, after that whole 'WTF' Gossip Girl ad craziness...opps, that was August</stike> after Gossip Girl was already on for a while so everyone knew GG was not tame, b) either monitor all your kids books or respect that she's probably old enough to not go find a huge box of condoms and sleep with someone just because a book mentions it, and c) maybe be glad that book is at least mentioning condoms and not glossing over that part of sex?
(And this was not actually our library system, but since it was really, really near by, I feel the need to mention we do have in our system--which is missing a lot--about all the GG books and the show DVDs, too.)
She doesn't like the 'Costco sized box of condoms' mentioned and the sex and drugs. She wanted a label put on the books before she'd agree to return them. The library disagreed, though and said that would be a matter of opinion--they did move them to the adult section, though (which isn't giving in b/c anyone can still check them out....).
I can get not liking the content of Gossip Girl books--and some other YA books, easily. There's tons of sex and drugs and drinking and whatever in a lot of books, but a) this was a year ago so it was,
(And this was not actually our library system, but since it was really, really near by, I feel the need to mention we do have in our system--which is missing a lot--about all the GG books and the show DVDs, too.)