And I will believe the same about you

• Stephen Chbosky will adapt & direct The Perks of Being a Wallflower for the screen.

Great news; the novel is wonderful, and close to my heart.

Although no one has been cast yet for the lead role of Charlie, two book-based-movie stars have signed up: Harry Potter actress Emma Watson and Percy Jackson actor Logan Lerman.

In 2009, Chbosky’s book hit the #3 spot on the American Library Association’s top ten most frequently challenged books of 2009. The association listed these reasons for the challenges: “anti-family, drugs, homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited to age group.”

Here we go again

Sort of old news, but worth rehashing for the sake of completeness:

• Broadminded school council members are still trying to ban books.
  

As we all know, books that dare to discuss sex will send their readers straight to hell for all eternity. The current crop of "pornographic" offenders:

The titles on [board member Laura] Pinney's list are "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" by Michael Pollan, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers and "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez.

Thankfully, since this story broke, Pinney has gone away, having been exposed as the moron she is. The fact that she hadn't actually read the books probably didn't help her cause much, which is about as bad as Bob Doyle trying to ban Natural Born Killers without having seen it.

Sigh...