George Takei to serve as honorary chair of Banned Books Week

The American Library Association (ALA) revealed all the way back in April the theme for this year's Banned Books Week, happening the first full week of October: "Censorship Is So 1984. Read For Your Rights." With our current government blatantly seeking to silence its critics (with schoolyard bully tactics), the theme could not be more prescient. The whole tradition of Banned Books Week began in 1982 in response to, you guessed, a huge uptick in books being challenged - the first step in the process to ban them. Methinks the people who bring forth these challenges are the very ones who . . .