Banned Book Contest

 Sixty-five visitors to Printed Page Bookshop entered our Banned Books Contest, which challenged readers to pick a single book, out of an exhibit of 60, that had not been banned or challenged.  It wasn't easy, given that some of the possibilities included Alice in Wonderland, Leaves of Grass and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 

                But five canny entrants --  Rick Cushing, Mark Decker, Dawn Estes, Becky Howard and Rick Stafford -- correctly picked Claude Dauphine's  non-classic Slick Chicks, Elite Books, 1962, a novel of "fiery-haired luscious beauties" and "those audacious, curious men with prying eyes and harsh cruelty lurking in their veins."   Each winning entrant won a gift certificate to Printed Page Bookshop.

We guess we were a little surprised that Slick Chicks had never been challenged, but more surprised that it had ever been published!

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