It’s Banned Book Week.

Go read something subversive.

Here are the most frequently challenged books for 2006:

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
2. Gossip Girls series by Cecily Von Ziegesar
3, Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. Scary Stories  series by Alvin Schwartz
7. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Here are the most challenged books for the first half of this decade:

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
“The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier
Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
“Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers
“It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie Harris
Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
“Forever” by Judy Blume

Me? I just finished catching up on an excellent comic series, and am now reading some supernatural fiction and trying to figure out what else I want to be reading (aside from everything listed in the sidebar.)

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Things are going better than they were Friday.

We (read: Michael) replaced the light today, so I don’t have the swath of destruction in the yard reminding me how much people suck.

Additionally, when we drove my grandmother to Hagerstown to meet my Aunt for the Grandmom trade-off. (She she can see her new great-grandchildren.) On the way, we stopped at the fruit market in Hancock (anyone who’s driven 68/70 knows where this is.). I got three different kinds of fresh apples, local made apple butter, and apple cider.

Now all I need is time to bake…

Does anyone know if you can freeze apple cider? I’d like to freeze “individual” serving sizes for when I need them for cooking, since apple cider is hard to find at other times of the year.

Also, this is a good time to get Buckwheat flour, for everyone who missed the Buckwheat Festival last weekend. (That would be me.)