Playingjane - Playing Jane

I love seeing videos of pandas being manhandled

Jessie M. King, illustrations for The High History of the Holy Graal, 1903.

Article about a literature censorship board formed in 1953 in the US - The Georgia Literature Commission - 

"Thus, with God and a pure, unyielding ignorance on his side, Wesberry developed an eight-question checklist with which to gauge literature for obscenity: 1. What is the general and dominant theme? 2. What degree of sincerity of purpose is evident? 3. What is the literary or scientific worth? 4. What channels of distribution are employed? 5. What are contemporary attitudes of reasonable men toward such matters? 6. What types of readers may reasonably be expected to peruse the publication? 7. Is there evidence of pornographic intent? 8. What impression will be created in the mind of the reader, upon reading the work as a whole?”

Catcher in the Rye did not pass through this test. 

The challenge was to find a dusty book in the store with an unassuming cover.

calling all the booklrs

if you are a book blog please reblog this

my dash is superduper slow and I need more awesome blogs to follow. if you reblog this then I can check your blog out and probably follow you too (and if you wanna check out my blog that’d be cool too)