What Are You Reading RIGHT NOW! Challenge May 2011

First Challenge of every month is nice and simple: tell The Books for Walls Project what you are reading  --whether a newspaper, a magazine, a book-on-tape, or just a good old fashioned book.

So, What are you Reading Right Now? And when you are done stop by and tell us more about the book: was it a Really, Really, Really Good Book; or have fun with the First Line/Last Line Challenge; or if you are still basking in National Poetry Month perhaps you might like to Haiku Your Book! To check out most of last year's challenges, click here --2011's challenges are listed on the left side of the website. Most of the challenges are still open, so take as many as you like!! We love it when readers get hooked ;) And remember, if you have an idea for a challenge, email us we'd love to hear from you!

And don't forget this week is Choose Privacy Week --learn all about it!

Need a good book to read? Check out previous What are You Reading RIGHT NOW Challenges, click the link and read the comments:

• April 2011
• March 2011
• November/December 2010 and January 2011
• October 2010
• September 2010
• May-September 2010

Please use the following format for your comment:

Title of Book/Magazine, Author, and your thoughts on what you are reading.

Get the Scoop at Your Library: Choose Privacy Week

Why Choose Privacy Week as a Focus on Libraries? Well...

PrivacyRevolution.org is "a movement of librarians dedicated to intellectual freedom. Led by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and with the support and involvement of our allies, we are urging Americans to assert their privacy rights."

Libraries and librarians give us an endless spring of information --definitely providing an avenue to assert our rights of free thought and free speech.

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, click for more on Justice Douglas.

The question is how can we assert our right to privacy, free speech, and free thought? “Facebook is a conditioning system to teach you to undervalue your privacy” children/young adult author Corey Doctorow explained in the 2010 Choose Privacy Week video. Is it possible to participate and protect our privacy? It is a constant struggle to understand our rights and new technologies. 

(The Mom at this point feels like yelling "help.") Then...

...enter beloved library and Choose Privacy Week. Librarians and their endless resources are at the ready to help us overwhelmed internet users stay informed and up to date on protecting our privacy in the current culture of constant change (whew!)

Choose Privacy Week Trailer 2010

How to take the privacy revolution to the people?  

• Get started with PrivacyRevolutions.org: Friends and Allies
• How about the kids? School Library Lessons
• Join the revolution www.privacyrevolution.org
• Stay informed while being social: twitter.com/privacyala and facebook.com/chooseprivacyweek
• Have any tips to share on how to stay up to date on privacy? Share them in the comments below or send us an email.

Happy Choose Privacy Week!