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AIBU to complain about book display

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RainbowWhy · 20/12/2024 21:36

Visited the library today to get the kids some books to read over the holidays. They had a display of recipe/diet/cook books in the entrance. I was quite taken aback to see Gregg Wallace on the front cover of one of the books, I didn’t say anything but surely the library staff are aware of the news? I don’t think the council should be promoting him, surely no one is going to take the book out anyway.

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Whiteskies · 21/12/2024 08:44

'Threw' not through, sorry

Whiteskies · 21/12/2024 08:43

So many authors have unsavoury pasts or are horrible people. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books was a sadistic, woman hating man.

www.independent.ie/entertainment/bond-age-the-spy-who-spanked-me/29074905.html

Should his books be banned? Ditto the many authors who we now know to be racist or sexist. Should we ban their books?
I loved Good Evening Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter Downe published by the feminist Persephone publishing group. I loved it and ordered another and stumbled across the casual use of the N word by one of the characters. I was completely shocked and through the book away. It was unfortunately a product of its time. However, so many nineteenth and twentieth century authors hold views that are completely at odds with today's values.Should we ban them?
Banning/ burning books smacks of Nazi Germany or the McCarthyism in America searching out authors with communist views.
It is a very slippery slope

ueberlin2030 · 21/12/2024 07:09

RainbowWhy · 20/12/2024 21:36

Visited the library today to get the kids some books to read over the holidays. They had a display of recipe/diet/cook books in the entrance. I was quite taken aback to see Gregg Wallace on the front cover of one of the books, I didn’t say anything but surely the library staff are aware of the news? I don’t think the council should be promoting him, surely no one is going to take the book out anyway.

YABVU.

Jostuki · 21/12/2024 07:07

Hilarious.

Rainyblue · 21/12/2024 06:55

GallyGaff · 20/12/2024 22:10

Mumsnetters seem.to have a strange obsession with complaining and reporting.

I agree and I just don’t know how people have the time or energy to get worked up about all this stuff.

MintShaker · 21/12/2024 00:23

Oh my goodness 😂😂😂

Pinkelephant66 · 21/12/2024 00:10

Innocent until proven guilty!!

saltinesandcoffeecups · 21/12/2024 00:09

GallyGaff · 20/12/2024 22:10

Mumsnetters seem.to have a strange obsession with complaining and reporting.

I’ve always wondered if this is the source for all that “admin” I keep reading about but don’t recognize.

EdnaTheWitch · 21/12/2024 00:09

YABU

Bumcake · 21/12/2024 00:04

Take in some googly eyes next time, and stick them on the cover.

ForGreyKoala · 21/12/2024 00:02

YABU, not to mention odd.

SleepPrettyDarling · 20/12/2024 23:57

I agree with the OP, in a minority!

MollieSugdon · 20/12/2024 23:53

He'll get about 2p if someone borrows it.
Really, what a fuss.

Ablondiebutagoody · 20/12/2024 23:37

Get a grip

Isatis · 20/12/2024 23:27

Jc2001 · 20/12/2024 21:55

Even if they are aware it's kind of outside of their remit to start making decisions about which books should be displayed and which shouldn't.

People are capable of deciding which books they borrow from the library.

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This was a specific display of recipe books. Of course the librarians decide what goes into it.

ManchesterLu · 20/12/2024 23:26

Unless you're willing to research the backgrounds of every single author they stock, YABU.

steff13 · 20/12/2024 23:22

Edingril · 20/12/2024 23:09

We can go back to banning or burning books like America does that sounds really healthy

Start?

DarkAether · 20/12/2024 23:21

Plus what about all the music people still listen too when the authors are omg behaviours eg elvis for one ??

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 20/12/2024 23:17

At 45, Charles Dickens fell in love with an 18 year old actress. Perhaps we'd better stop having his books in libraries on account of him being a lecherous old sleazebag...

Nikitaspearlearring · 20/12/2024 23:16

I wouldn't have liked seeing it. I might have shoved it right at the back.

QuestionableMouse · 20/12/2024 23:12

I wish my life was boring enough for this to be an issue.

Thedishwasherbroke · 20/12/2024 23:10

He’s fairly revolting and sleazy but he’s not actually been charged, much less convicted, of anything criminal. Removing literature by everyone who doesn’t meet some set of arbitrary moral standards is going to leave a very bare library. You’d probably be getting rid of every political memoir for a start…

Edingril · 20/12/2024 23:09

We can go back to banning or burning books like America does that sounds really healthy

DitzyDerbyBabe86 · 20/12/2024 23:03

You. Need. To. Get. A. Life.

Tubetrain · 20/12/2024 23:02

IsANameImportant · 20/12/2024 21:43

What harm do you think it will do? Gregg won’t be earning any money from people taking his book out. I don't think we should be censoring and burning books because someone has been accused of something. Think of all the authors in that library and some of the terrible things they must have done.

Yes he will, not much but something