Be a Cactus
Victoria WaddleFor resistant readers and writers, working to bloom. Library censorship news.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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A Week of Celebrations. Book-Shaming. Privacy Rights in the Library
This is the front of a t-shirt a friend gave me recently. So me! Thanks, Shirl-Girl!
Hello Friends,
We had some celebrating going on this week! The U.S. men’s soccer team wins have been bringing people together. And Juneteenth with the op...
AI and What We Really Want to Read
Shared online by creator Jim Benton.
Hello Friends,
I’m not one of those autotelic talents like García Márquez. (Let’s leave aside the fact that García Márquez was 10,000 times more talented.) My writing isn’t self-sustained or self-gener...
Funding of the Institute of Museum and Library Services is Under Threat Again
Hello Friends,
I’m taking a little trip to meet up with friends from my no-longer-active book club. (Life changes including relocations and health issues have changed the availability of the members.) Because I’ll be away over the weekend,...
The Fiction of Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Kraus.
Hello Friends,
While this is not our “Library and Banned Books News” week, (that’s next week), I do want to mention that the Knox County, TN schools reversed the banning of Alex Haley’s Roots. And that was because of community and national...
What We Know About Book Bans Over the Last Five Years: Titles and Authors. State News.
Hello Friends,
Here’s our every other week round up “Library and Banned Books News.” We have some interesting links for trends in the United States.
Before we get into the weeds, had this quote a few weeks ago on her Substack, and I thou...
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Victoria is the author of Acts of Contrition: Short Stories (Los Nietos Press) and The Mortality of Dogs and Humans (Bamboo Dart Press). Formerly the managing editor of Inlandia: A Literary Journey, she has a YA novel coming out in 2025.
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