Read-in supporting BCL

BONNERS FERRY — In support of the Boundary County Library, community members had their second read-in on the lawn outside the library on Saturday, Aug. 20.

Library Director Kimber Glidden told the Bonners Ferry Herald the read-in was not sanctioned or supported by the library.

Read-in participants read banned books on the lawn, which included 33 titles.

Among the books read were: “Nineteen Minutes”, by Jodi Picoult; “Handmaiden's Tale”, by Margret Atwood, which was read by three people; “A Burnable Book”, by Bruce Holsinger; “First Wife Club”, by Olivia Goldstein; “Scary Story To Tell in the Dark”, by Alvin Schwartz; “More Scary Store To Tell In The Dark”, by Alvin Schwartz; “Gone With The Wind”, by Margret Mitchell; “The Picture Of Dorian Grey”, by Oscar Wilde; “Song Of Solomon”, by Toni Morrison; “The Cave and the Cathedral”, by Amir D Aczel; “A Gentleman In Moscow”, by Amor Towles; “To Kill A Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee; “The Satanic Verses”, by Salman Rushdie; “Beloved”, by Toni Morrison; ”Reading Lolita in Tehran”, by Atar Nafisi; “The Testaments”, by Margret Atwood; “A Clockwork Orange”, by Anthony Burgess; “Know My Name”, by Chanel Miller; “Fifty Ships That Change The Course of History”, by Philip Good Goodhart; “Lewis Carroll Diaries Volume 1”, by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; “The Spell of The White Sturgeon”, by Jim Kjelgaurd; “The Best American Science and Nature writing”, by Ed Young; “Wildwood Creek,” by Lisa Wingale; “Uncle Tom Cabin”, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; “Upheaval Turning Points For A Nations in Crisis”, by Jarred Diamond; “Where The Crawdad Sings”, by Delia Owens; “Skyward Flight”, by Brandon Sanderson; “Number the Stars”, by Lois Lowery; “The Shape of Thunder”, by Jasmine Warga;

“Never Let Me Go”, by Kazuo Ishiguro; “Maus”, by Art Spiegelman; “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury; “It Can't Happen Here”, by Sinclair Lewis.