Disability Awareness: Cancer and the ADA
October is Disability Awareness Month, and it’s a great time to talk about something that, in our experience, many people don’t realize: cancer can be considered a disability under the … Read More
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Disability and Activism: Alice Wong’s Year of the Tiger
Dear Readers, I’m excited to make my first post here on Books We Read, especially in October, which we recognize as Disability Awareness Month here at Rutgers. First, a disclosure: … Read More
Disability Awareness: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Who gets to decide what is good representation and what isn’t? This Disability Awareness Month, I was thinking about this question as I started to compile a list of books about Autism … Read More
Disability Awareness for Children and Young Adults
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, or “NDEAM,” celebrating the value, talent and contributions workers with disabilities bring to America’s workplaces and economy. This year is NDEAM’s 80th anniversary … Read More
Banned Books to Movies
[SPOILERS AHEAD!] I love movies! Sometimes even more than books. I especially love movie adaptations of popular books I’ve never read because if they as good as a movie, they … Read More
Banned Books Week with Books We Read (2020-2025)
Five years ago, in September 2020, the world was operating virtually due to Covid, but that didn’t prevent the small team of Books We Read at Chang Library from celebrating … Read More
Banned Books Week 2025: A Publisher’s Perspective
Bruce Franklin is the owner and publisher of Westholme Publishing, an independent publisher of nonfiction trade books founded in 2003. The press is noted for its distinguished and award-winning titles … Read More
Hungarian library celebrates Banned Books Week!
As a librarian, I personally find Banned Books Week extremely important, no matter where one lives. Since 1982, the week-long attention to challenging books for diverse reasons has been a … Read More
Books We Read celebrates diversity in reading, Part 2
Following up on our semester kickoff post, Books We Read celebrates diversity in reading, Part 1, we are delighted to share how our motive and purpose worked in the past … Read More
Books We Read celebrates diversity in reading, Part 1
Since its inception, the Books We Read blog has evolved into a community of diverse voices, perspectives, and experiences. It began as an extension of the Reading for Recovery project … Read More