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#noraroberts

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Leonieke

As always Nora Roberts sets down her own rules. 💪

fallintothestory.com/please-st

Of course, I can't wait for the next book, because I want to continue reading, but I relish the time between and the chance of a re-read before a next title is published: it's part of my process as well :neocat_book:

Fall into the Story · Please Stop and ThinkOn this day before Thanksgiving, I didn’t write. Horrors!!After my morning workout, I made four pies—from scratch, including the crusts. I made 32 deviled eggs, made cranberry sauce—from cranberrie…
#NoraRoberts#FTW
Natalie Davis 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇺🇦

USA Politics

"Florida’s book-ban frenzy targets Nora Roberts, and she’s not happy

(...) This signals a new trend: Book banners are increasingly going after a wide variety of titles, including romance novels, under the guise of targeting “pornography.” That term is a very flexible one — deliberately so, it appears — and it is sweeping ever more broadly to include books that can’t be described as such in any reasonable sense.

(...) Speaking of the censors, Roberts told us: “I’m surprised that they wouldn’t want teenagers to read about healthy relationships that are monogamous, consensual, healthy and end up in marriage.”"

'Pornography' is rapidly coming to mean "stuff I don’t like" in Republican circles.

Gift article 🔗: washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

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azteclady

Also, hat tip to @lauravivanco for reminding me that just a few days ago, Nora Roberts donated money to "protect the first amendment in libraries"

Before that, she contributed basically 1/5 of a Michigan town's library budget after a months-long moral panic was stoked to defund it for having queer books in its collection.

So the timing in FL is suspect, and the Washington Post didn't make the connection.

#BookBans #Libraries #NoraRoberts

everylibraryinstitute.org/nora

thehill.com/changing-america/r

Text from the second link: The romance writer Nora Roberts has donated $50,000 to a Michigan library that was defunded in August after it refused to remove a number of LGBTQ+ books from its shelves. Roberts, an award-winning author of more than 225 romance novels, made the contribution late last month via an online fundraising campaign for the Patmos Library in Jamestown Township, Michigan. In early August, voters in the Western Michigan town rejected a proposal to renew a property tax millage that funds most of the public library’s yearly budget, putting Jamestown Township’s only library in jeopardy of closing. “I wasn’t expecting anything like this,” Larry Walton, the library board’s president, told Bridge Michigan after the vote. “The library is the center of the community.” The Aug. 2 vote was the culmination of a months-long pressure campaign spearheaded by a conservative Christian group that accused Patmos Library of “grooming children for sexual exploitation” by allowing young readers to access a slate of LGBTQ+ books, including Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir” that topped the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books last year. (inserted add)
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More than 62 percent of Jamestown Township residents voted to reject the millage, according to county records. Free speech and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups rallied around the library almost immediately, and a GoFundMe campaign to keep Patmos Library’s doors open for another year racked up nearly $100,000 in donations in just a single week. “I love Jamestown and the people who make up its community,” resident Jesse Dillman, who organized the GoFundMe, wrote in an Aug. 6 update on the site. “They are the reason I am here doing this.” With the help of Roberts’ $50,000 donation – and close to 5,000 smaller ones – Dillman’s fundraiser has collected more than $260,000 for the library, surpassing its fundraising goal by nearly $20,000. In a statement to Bridge Michigan, Roberts said it was “an honor for me to stand up for the Patmos Library and its staff.” “Libraries are treasures, opening the door to books and stories for all,” Roberts told the outlet. “Librarians, to me, are the guardians of those stories. I find the idea of librarians — who offer community services beyond reading — facing threats and attacks, a community library facing defunding both appalling and sad.”
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Bongolian

Greg Sargent & Paul Waldman: Florida’s book-ban frenzy targets Nora Roberts, and she’s not happy

"This signals a new trend: Book banners are increasingly going after a wide variety of titles, including romance novels, under the guise of targeting “pornography.” That term is a very flexible one — deliberately so, it appears — and it is sweeping ever more broadly to include books that can’t be described as such in any reasonable sense.

Martin County is where 20 Jodi Picoult novels were recently pulled from school library shelves. This, too, was largely because of objections from that same Moms for Liberty activist, Julie Marshall, head of the group’s local chapter."


washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

The Washington PostFlorida’s book-ban frenzy targets Nora Roberts, and she’s not happyBy Greg Sargent
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azteclady

I said years ago (on twitter) that romance authors writing so-called 'clean' books to get away from the whole "mommy porn" bullshit were only enabling their own persecution. And today I'm proven right again: the bullshit-name "moms for liberty" fucker in Marion County FL has gotten 8 Nora Roberts books off high school library shelves, because "they're porn".

Read that again.

If you think that's porn, what you mean is that women's agency is your problem, not 'porn'

From a Washington Post piece: Tiffany Justice, co-founder of the right-wing book-purging organization Moms for Liberty, offered a righteous-sounding answer when asked this past weekend on “CBS Sunday Morning” what sort of book she wants to see remain in schools. “Books that don’t have pornography in them,” she piously declared. “Let’s just put the bar really, really low. Books that don’t have incest, pedophilia, rape.” That’s hard to square with what just happened in Martin County, Fla. The school district there recently decided to yank from its high school library circulation eight novels by Nora Roberts that are not “pornography” at all — largely prompted by objections from a single woman who also happens to be a Moms for Liberty activist. “All of it is shocking,” Roberts told us. “If you don’t want your teenager reading this book, that’s your right as a mom — and good luck with that. But you don’t have the right to say nobody’s kid can read this book.”
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More text from a Washington Post piece: This signals a new trend: Book banners are increasingly going after a wide variety of titles, including romance novels, under the guise of targeting “pornography.” That term is a very flexible one — deliberately so, it appears — and it is sweeping ever more broadly to include books that can’t be described as such in any reasonable sense. Martin County is where 20 Jodi Picoult novels were recently pulled from school library shelves. This, too, was largely because of objections from that same Moms for Liberty activist, Julie Marshall, head of the group’s local chapter.
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Further down the piece at the Washington Post: The basis for Marshall’s objections to Roberts’s books, according to parental objection forms obtained and provided to us by the Florida Freedom to Read Project, is this: “These books are adult romance novels. They have absolutely no reason to be in school libraries.” One can debate whether “adult romance novels” belong in high school libraries, but this process is absurd. That sole objection, with no elaboration, was lodged against a bunch of books written by a single author, leading to their removal. What’s more, the objection to Roberts’s books appears extremely flimsy. Four of those books, which make up “The Bride Quartet,” are about friends seeking love as they build their wedding-planning business. The books have some sex scenes, but the language is often vague enough that a child would have little idea what was happening. (“He touched, he tasted, he lingered until her quivers became trembles.”) And — spoiler alert — each book ends with a marriage proposal.
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And more text from that same Washington Post piece: All this shows that red-state book crackdowns are designed to whip up frenzies of book-banning zealotry. Vaguely defined directives enable lone actors to purge whole stacks of books based on frivolous rationales, encouraging parents to hunt for offending books and officials to err on the side of removal. A new PEN America report found nearly 1,500 instances of schools banning books during the first half of the 2022-2023 year, increasingly based on them supposedly containing “pornography.” “Activists and politicians are inflating the notion of what constitutes ‘pornography’ beyond all recognition,” Jonathan Friedman, director of free expression at PEN, told us. They are going after “romance books, books about puberty or sex education and books that just have LGBTQ characters.” As Alan Elrod writes for Arc Digital, it’s no accident that activists slapping the “pornography” label on material they deem heretical frequently smear political opponents as “groomers” and “pedophiles.”
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azteclady

Via Steve Ammidown:
"This is great. Nora has been putting money behind words for the past couple of years on this. I can’t help but wonder- where are the other big names? This is not a time for quietly writing a check, it’s a time to rally those you can reach with your fame. Working behind the scenes isn’t enough, you need to start banging on the garbage cans. More noise, not less!"

#Libraries #NoraRoberts

everylibraryinstitute.org/nora

EveryLibrary InstituteBestselling Author Nora Roberts Donates to the EveryLibrary Institute to protect the First Amendment in Libraries"I have always believed that libraries are essential to our society and the preservation of our democracy. They provide access to knowledge and ideas that are critical for personal and intellectual growth. I am proud to support the EveryLibrary Institute and its mission to protect the First Amendment in libraries." -Nora Roberts
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Josh Mendelsohn

A bit about myself. (clearing throat, cracking knuckles.) I'm a father to two terrific teenaged daughters, husband of the most important man in my life. We're all Deaf and live in Annapolis, MD and Bethany Beach, DE. I'm also an attorney and a rabid Nora Roberts reader. I read Sci-fi and fantasy. Oh yeah, we have a rescue Balinese pandemic cat who owns us all.

#introduction#Deaf#Queer
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