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Erin is a Ravenclaw (with Gryffindor tendencies) who graduated from Ohio Northern University with a degree in Creative Writing. She first fell in love with Harry Potter during the fall of 2000, after thoroughly convincing herself that she would hate the books. Clearly that wasn't the case! Erin spends her free time writing novels and trying to get published, reading anything within reach, reviewing theatrical events in her hometown for a freelance publication, and Irish Dancing.

Look for Alaska All You Want, You Won’t Find It In Sumner County, TN

May 9, 2012 1 Comment

On the heels of the public reading at University of Oregon protesting an Arizona school board’s ban on multiple books, Sumner County in Tennessee has banned John Green’s Looking for Alaska from schools’ curriculum.  This is the second county in Tennessee to ban Looking for Alaska from its schools, the first being Knox County. There [...]

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Taking a Stand Against Book Banning

May 4, 2012 2 Comments

On January 1, 2012, while everyone else in the world was celebrating the new year with toasts and food and friends and family, the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona was ringing it in by banning a bunch of books. Happy New Year. But this was beyond what book banning and censorship usually involves.  This [...]

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Kids On Books

May 2, 2012 2 Comments

In case my previous blog posts haven’t made this apparent yet, I love me some literacy.  And I love the organizations and efforts to spread literacy through the world. Knowing that, it’s really no wonder that I got all fangirly excited about an organization in Denver, CO called Burning Through Pages. What got my attention [...]

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Spreading the Stories

April 25, 2012 Leave a comment

If there’s one thing all of us here know, it’s the power of stories. We know how it feels to be so immersed in the lives of beloved characters that it’s like we’re living the story with them. We’re familiar with cheering on the good guys and hoping that the villain gets what’s coming to [...]

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An Ovation for Equality

April 18, 2012 Leave a comment

In our world, where it seems like the largest opposition to marriage equality is certain religious institutions, it’s refreshing to hear about a church that has collectively taken a stand for the rights of the LGBTQ community. It’s really no secret that the Catholic Church has a public stance against marriage equality.  So I can’t [...]

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The Reaping is Color Blind

April 9, 2012 5 Comments

Likely, you’ve noticed that the books that get the most press attention are the ones that tend to be targeted by book challengers. So color me shocked when The Hunger Games landed itself on ALA’s Most Banned and Challenged Books list for 2011, coming in at a very respectable number three. It’s not the first [...]

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The UN’s Concerned…So Why Aren’t We?

April 6, 2012 1 Comment

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so, it’s likely that you’ve at least heard the name Trayvon Martin. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m one of those people who usually gets my news from Facebook or Twitter (I know, I know…), so I’m well aware as to [...]

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Take a Book, Return a Book

April 4, 2012 2 Comments

It’s a concept that anyone who has ever used a public library understands–take a book, return a book. It’s been drilled into your head ever since you got your first library card, or got the chance to check a book out of your school library. If you take a book, but don’t return it, you [...]

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Clean Your Plate

March 28, 2012 1 Comment

“Finish your food. There are starving children in [insert country here], you know.” Did your mom ever use that line when you were growing up and the last thing you wanted to do was finish those lima beans on your dinner plate? Turns out she wasn’t so far off-base on that persuasive argument. According to [...]

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I Think I’ll Try Defying Gravity

March 3, 2012 Leave a comment

Erin Millar tells us about one of her favorite female role models, Elphaba Thropp.

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