book review the storyteller jodi picoult

Yeah, that was the one that really shocked me in Martin County because it's a book about fascism and the rise of fascism and how ordinary people can play into that. Even your book, “The Storyteller,” it's a novel about the Holocaust. And when you're talking about adult romance, you say that's not what I'm writing. There are some libraries in Florida, actually, school libraries, where they have not had any books in elementary school libraries since Christmas. And so the books stay off the shelves, away from kids, until they actually manage to figure out a way to review them. And the modus operandi is to get the books pulled off the shelves, because the process for review is very muddy. This is not an elementary school library. PICOULT: Yeah, so they're books that are to encourage kids to think for themselves. It's like what's happening in the moment. But they do have topics like gun rights and women's reproductive health rights and gay rights and things that make-īENITEZ: Because all of your books are very topical. And, in fact, half of the books she pulled do not even have a single kiss in them.

And she said that some of them were adult romance, which is really interesting because I don't write adult romance. And the one parent who wanted to ban all 20 of my books said on her form that she had not read the book, she admitted to that. But unfortunately, in Martin County, Florida, and in many places in Florida, one parent can decide to pull a book from a shelf without even giving a reason for that. BENITEZ: Why do you think your books are getting banned, especially there in Florida?

Book review the storyteller jodi picoult