You can't read THAT!

Friday night we had another rehearsal.  It was decided to delay the performance till April.  Our next rehearsal won't be till November 8. (Martha is in a play in Aurora.) That'll give me some time to learn more lines.

Saturday afternoon was another ROLT event.  I chose banned and challenged books for the subject, because the week honoring banned books is this month, and called it "You can't read that!" I read the first part of Tomi Ungerer's witty children's book No Kiss for Mother; the part of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn where he says, "All right, I'll go to hell then!"; part of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (which I just reread) where Holden Caulfield talked about how he was something of a coward, and where he talked about still being a virgin.  I thought of reading the chapter in Don Quixote where they burned his books, but decided it was too slow.

There was a wide range of stuff read.  Someone read from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood; someone else from Alice Walker's The Color Purple; and Jane read Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen and Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo.  Unfortunately, Joel took offence and left while I was reading from Mark Twain.  I'll have to do a better job of preparation.

For next month I think I'll do British writing.