When thinking about what to write for our banned book week
blog, it occurred to me that many of my favorite books have come under the
censorship spotlight.
I was a young
teenager when I read
The Chocolate War by
Robert Cormier for the first time.
Cormier’s book was so remarkably different from anything I had read up
to that point.
The adult characters
were far from perfect, the lead character was flawed and not always likable,
life was portrayed as often unfair and the ending was not a happy one!
To this day I still think about that book.
From the pages of The
Chocolate War and other books by Cormier, I explored the wild with Jack
London and Joseph Conrad, shivered my way through many Stephen King’s novels,
felt the sadness of Ernest Hemmingway’s characters and still try to wrap my
mind around the senselessness of the crime committed in Truman Capote’s story In Cold Blood.
For me, the definition of a great book is when I continue to
carry a piece of the story with me long after the last page has been read.
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