So I have spent the last few days thinking about writing a blog post, but I have so many things going around in my head, I was having trouble deciding on just one. Today, I decided to just start writing and see what comes out. It may very well be word vomit, and for that I apologize. I wanted to talk about banning books. We seemed to have become very confused on what exactly banning books means. Refusing to stock sexually explicit books in an elementary school is not banning books, especially if you can go on Amazon and order that book and have it delivered to you the next day. I spent most of my life in conservative Christian schools. And yet, from 6th grade on, I developed an intense fascination with the writer, John Saul. He wrote horror books. I also really had a thing for the Sweet Valley High books (yes, my tastes were all over the map.) Neither one of those books could be found in my Christian School library, but somehow I managed to read them all. They were effe