“How can you come to know what’s right when all the information you’re ever given is wrong?”
This quote is actually from the author’s note but I find that it sums up the book so well. The fact that I typically only read that overview first paragraph of summaries (because full summaries give away too much) made this one quite the surprise for me. I thought it was going to be light-hearted and an easy read – boy was I wrong.
Summary - The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
This book offered me a side I don’t typically see – the southern Red state perspective. It was equal parts terrifying but also hopeful to see so many who are in opposition to things like book bans.
Miller shines a light where a light needs to be shined. There are people who turn on the TV to a certain type of channel and listen to the fear mongering and the truth manipulation and they believe every word of it.
Nonfiction has taken the lead on five star reads for me (I read a lot of them) so it is worth noting that Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books has received my highest fiction rating OF THE YEAR, at 4.5 stars.
If this isn’t alrea on your list, I highly recommend putting it there. Thank you to @net and @williammorrow for this copy in exchange for my honest review. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books is out June 18, 2024!
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