The Every Library Institute recently release a report titled The Censorship Acceleration - An Analysis of Book Ban Trends After 2020. What was in this report was deeply disturbing to me and speaks to the authoritarian control the United States is goose-stepping rapidly toward.

Since 2020, book bans have surged—no longer the result of one pearl-clutching parent flipping out over two penguin dads in a picture book, but instead a coordinated campaign cooked up in the back rooms of political and religious PACs with too much money and not enough reading comprehension.

Intercepts - It's RARE for me to be terrified by a book. RARE. The scene when we get to Riley's room I almost had to put the book down. This was visceral, emotional, brutal and scary. To the freezer!

The Devil All The Time - Have you ever read a book filled with the most horrific characters and written so beautifully well? I have a love hate relationship with this one. Easily 5 stars but the feelings it gave me, I'm still haunted by it

Hey y'all!

After tallying the votes, July's book club pick was chosen and it will be Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat! Fabienne was born in Haiti and moved to the U. S. as a teenager. Kingdom of No Tomorrow is her second novel, a historical fiction about a Haitian woman who migrates to the U. S. during the Duvalier dictatorship of the 1960s and ends up joining the Black Panthers in California.