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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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MollieSugdon · 20/12/2024 23:53

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

SleepPrettyDarling · 20/12/2024 23:57

I agree with the OP, in a minority!

ForGreyKoala · 21/12/2024 00:02

YABU, not to mention odd.

Bumcake · 21/12/2024 00:04

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

EdnaTheWitch · 21/12/2024 00:09

YABU

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.

Pinkelephant66 · 21/12/2024 00:10

Innocent until proven guilty!!

MintShaker · 21/12/2024 00:23

Oh my goodness 😂😂😂

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.

Jostuki · 21/12/2024 07:07

Hilarious.

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.

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

Whiteskies · 21/12/2024 08:44

'Threw' not through, sorry

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