Caption Contest Week 4 (Banned Book Edition)

Hello Marauders! Padfoot and Prongs here bringing you a BRAND SPANKING NEW weekly feature that we are sure will shock and amaze you. Ok maybe but not that, but it will be fun, we promise. Inspired by the fabulous tumblr Slaughterhouse90210 we gals over at GoodBooksInc have thought up a fun new literary game for us all to play together and we hope that every single one of you will get the urge to participate.

Here is what the end result will look like: Last Week's Winner

"With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

This fantastic caption was submitted by JSpeed29 !! This week was seriously TOUGH. All the submissions were great and P&P had a really hard time choosing. For their great submission JSpeed29 will be recieveing a GoodBooksInc Mug!!!

So lets break it down. Essentially this new feature will be a weekly 'literary' caption contest participated in by you all and "refereed" by us. Each week we will provide you all with a fun and interesting photo which is in dire need of some sort of caption.

Here is where you come in. It will be your job as loyal readers and literary lovers to scour your brains, books, and Google to find a quote or passage from any novel, play, short story, essay etc. that might compliment the picture.

The rules are simple: as long as it's literary, it counts.

You can leave a comment with as many options as you like, however, we'd suggest bringing your A-game since only the very best captions will be rewarded. Also, please be sure to include the name of the work and if possible the author.

What's the reward you ask? Well depending on the week (and our budget) it will range from a virtual high five to anyone of our fabulous GoodBooksInc. items!

However this weekend is a little bit different!!!

The prize is going to be EXTRA special due to our celebration of 'Banned Books Week', so if you have considered entering before, now would be the time to do it!

Now that you understand the rules, below you will find the next picture that is in need of captioning. Like we said, anything will count... but the more clever and appropriate the quote, the better your odds are of winning!

We encourage you to check out the Tumblr mentioned above to get ideas on how to be creative with this, as well as GoodReads for a huge collection of quotes from every book imaginable. Good luck and happy searching!

*Caption Needed*

Caption Contest Week 4 (Banned Book Edition)

Hello Marauders! Padfoot and Prongs here bringing you a BRAND SPANKING NEW weekly feature that we are sure will shock and amaze you. Ok maybe but not that, but it will be fun, we promise. Inspired by the fabulous tumblr Slaughterhouse90210 we gals over at GoodBooksInc have thought up a fun new literary game for us all to play together and we hope that every single one of you will get the urge to participate.

Here is what the end result will look like: Last Week's Winner

"With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

This fantastic caption was submitted by JSpeed29 !! This week was seriously TOUGH. All the submissions were great and P&P had a really hard time choosing. For their great submission JSpeed29 will be recieveing a GoodBooksInc Mug!!!

So lets break it down. Essentially this new feature will be a weekly 'literary' caption contest participated in by you all and "refereed" by us. Each week we will provide you all with a fun and interesting photo which is in dire need of some sort of caption.

Here is where you come in. It will be your job as loyal readers and literary lovers to scour your brains, books, and Google to find a quote or passage from any novel, play, short story, essay etc. that might compliment the picture.

The rules are simple: as long as it's literary, it counts.

You can leave a comment with as many options as you like, however, we'd suggest bringing your A-game since only the very best captions will be rewarded. Also, please be sure to include the name of the work and if possible the author.

What's the reward you ask? Well depending on the week (and our budget) it will range from a virtual high five to anyone of our fabulous GoodBooksInc. items!

However this weekend is a little bit different!!!

The prize is going to be EXTRA special due to our celebration of 'Banned Books Week', so if you have considered entering before, now would be the time to do it!

Now that you understand the rules, below you will find the next picture that is in need of captioning. Like we said, anything will count... but the more clever and appropriate the quote, the better your odds are of winning!

We encourage you to check out the Tumblr mentioned above to get ideas on how to be creative with this, as well as GoodReads for a huge collection of quotes from every book imaginable. Good luck and happy searching!

*Caption Needed*

Banned Book Week : Day 3

Hello there Marauders! Happy Banned Book week to all. Sadly we are coming up on halfway through the week which means all the banned bookness is gone. Mrrrr.

However there are still a few more dirty little days to go . Make sure to hurry up and pick your selections for last weeks caption contest and get your submissions in. Tomorrow we will be drawing a winner as well as announcing an extra special challenge for the coming week. Also Friday make sure to check back for an extra steamyyy post, as well as Saturday for a final roundup of some literary links.

Today we are discussing the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently banned or challenged books. Hopefully everyone out there has read at least 1 or 2 books on these lists. Possibly you had to read them in school (which rocks) or maybe you went out on your own and found them. Either way just having read 1 means that you have read a book that has caused controversy and discussion in literary land, which makes you o.k in our books.

Below you will find THE LIST. How many of these have you read. Between P&P we clocked in around 48.

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
68. Light in August, by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians, by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis

100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie

So there you have it marauders! Not too shabby. How does your own personal list shape up? Any books you are surprised, not surprised, offended to see on our list? Be sure to check out our other banned booked theme posts from earlier this week, and keep stopping by for more literary goodness!

We want to hear from you!!

Banned Book Week : Day 3

Hello there Marauders! Happy Banned Book week to all. Sadly we are coming up on halfway through the week which means all the banned bookness is gone. Mrrrr.

However there are still a few more dirty little days to go . Make sure to hurry up and pick your selections for last weeks caption contest and get your submissions in. Tomorrow we will be drawing a winner as well as announcing an extra special challenge for the coming week. Also Friday make sure to check back for an extra steamyyy post, as well as Saturday for a final roundup of some literary links.

Today we are discussing the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently banned or challenged books. Hopefully everyone out there has read at least 1 or 2 books on these lists. Possibly you had to read them in school (which rocks) or maybe you went out on your own and found them. Either way just having read 1 means that you have read a book that has caused controversy and discussion in literary land, which makes you o.k in our books.

Below you will find THE LIST. How many of these have you read. Between P&P we clocked in around 48.

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
68. Light in August, by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians, by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis

100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie

So there you have it marauders! Not too shabby. How does your own personal list shape up? Any books you are surprised, not surprised, offended to see on our list? Be sure to check out our other banned booked theme posts from earlier this week, and keep stopping by for more literary goodness!

We want to hear from you!!

Tattttttttttooooooo Tuesday! Banned Books Week Edition

Hey there Marauders!! Welcome to a very special edition of Tattoo Tuesday!! In honor of Banned Book week, we are highlighting a few stand out books that come directly from books that have found themselves on the banned or challenge lists across the country. Having a literary tattoo is kick ass in itself, but having on that is from a book whose ideas have been challenged, discussed, and debated at length makes you even more kick ass! So we hope you enjoy this special installment; feel free to share your own tattoos and thoughts in the comments!!


Here's what he had to say about his tattoo:

"I started reading at age three (I'm 23 now) and since then it's been a huge influence on my life. My father, a Catholic school graduate, actually introduced me to several banned books--Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and Slaptick--that he read in school. Slapstick, while not Vonnegut at his finest, really struck a chord and I devoured (and purchased) everything Vonnegut I could get my hands on; it's turned out well. While Slaughterhouse-Five has been banned for being an "anti-war" book, it's never been such to me. In fact, it was the first thing I ever read that let me know it was okay to love America, love and respect the military, and still feel conflicted about (particularly young) Americans getting shipped off to war.
To me, this tattoo encompasses both everything I love about Vonnegut as well as an important motto by which I live. I love that the quote can be either pessimistic or optimistic depending on your circumstances. Many thanks to Vonnegut, banned books, and the librarians/teachers that keep their legacy alive and the thirst for knowledge strong."

Very, very cool portrait tattoo. We all know Prongs is having a bookgasm from all the Vonnegutness.

Our next submission comes from a girl on LiveJournal as well:

These tattoos are both from Harry Potter...and obviously we are no strangers to that series. Excellent, excellent tattoos. For our thoughts on the HP ban, make sure to read yesterdays post.

And our final tattoo comes from Contrariwise:




“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

Although neither of us have read Ulysses, it is definitely a classic banned book, and it is on list of TBR books in Europe.

Here's the link:
http://www.contrariwise.org/2008/06/08/james-joyce/

Alright folks, that is all for this Tuesday. We hope you enjoyed this special edition and make sure to check back next week for another exciting installment. Also make sure to check back tomorrow for more banned bookness.

Tattttttttttooooooo Tuesday! Banned Books Week Edition

Hey there Marauders!! Welcome to a very special edition of Tattoo Tuesday!! In honor of Banned Book week, we are highlighting a few stand out books that come directly from books that have found themselves on the banned or challenge lists across the country. Having a literary tattoo is kick ass in itself, but having on that is from a book whose ideas have been challenged, discussed, and debated at length makes you even more kick ass! So we hope you enjoy this special installment; feel free to share your own tattoos and thoughts in the comments!!


Here's what he had to say about his tattoo:

"I started reading at age three (I'm 23 now) and since then it's been a huge influence on my life. My father, a Catholic school graduate, actually introduced me to several banned books--Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and Slaptick--that he read in school. Slapstick, while not Vonnegut at his finest, really struck a chord and I devoured (and purchased) everything Vonnegut I could get my hands on; it's turned out well. While Slaughterhouse-Five has been banned for being an "anti-war" book, it's never been such to me. In fact, it was the first thing I ever read that let me know it was okay to love America, love and respect the military, and still feel conflicted about (particularly young) Americans getting shipped off to war.
To me, this tattoo encompasses both everything I love about Vonnegut as well as an important motto by which I live. I love that the quote can be either pessimistic or optimistic depending on your circumstances. Many thanks to Vonnegut, banned books, and the librarians/teachers that keep their legacy alive and the thirst for knowledge strong."

Very, very cool portrait tattoo. We all know Prongs is having a bookgasm from all the Vonnegutness.

Our next submission comes from a girl on LiveJournal as well:

These tattoos are both from Harry Potter...and obviously we are no strangers to that series. Excellent, excellent tattoos. For our thoughts on the HP ban, make sure to read yesterdays post.

And our final tattoo comes from Contrariwise:




“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

Although neither of us have read Ulysses, it is definitely a classic banned book, and it is on list of TBR books in Europe.

Here's the link:
http://www.contrariwise.org/2008/06/08/james-joyce/

Alright folks, that is all for this Tuesday. We hope you enjoyed this special edition and make sure to check back next week for another exciting installment. Also make sure to check back tomorrow for more banned bookness.