American Booksellers Association and Abigail Shrier

[lionheart]

Sorry if there is already a thread--I couldn't find it.

I have a copy, if anyone's interested.

it didn't bite me.

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

They need the hyperbole to persuade themselves that censorship is justified.

Irreversible Damage is trending in the US.

I honest to God thought that was a parody and a pretty good one at that.

I have been challenging myself to outdo it, but short of a free TERF scalp with every trans book, I came up blank.

@Olderbadger1

One of the totally proportionate responses on twatter, that edifice of reasonable eloquence...

@AnneOgborn
Replace every single person on your selection committee with a trans person. Commit to sending a pro trans book with every order for the next 5 years and drop the book's publisher, and any other publisher who publishes hate. Publish a complete account of how this happened, including names of all employees involved. Fire all involved in the decision and their managers, transitively up to the CEO.

Oh just ridiculous

How does this person even function…surely walking and thinking at the same time would cause them massive issues

Ah, interesting lionheart. Chicken or egg, I wonder.

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

You don't sleep with both eyes closed with that thug of a book sat right there, watching and waiting, do you? 😱

Jeez Pam. Hope you have cats

Cats will always defend against violent books.

They will piss on it and then hope you have a toddler as they will toss it int the loo

Double guarding

@yourhairiswinterfire

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

You don't sleep with both eyes closed with that thug of a book sat right there, watching and waiting, do you? 😱

Please sleep with the lights on.

@StandUpStraight

Ah, interesting lionheart. Chicken or egg, I wonder.

A canny bookseller could take a leaf from ...

@yourhairiswinterfire

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

You don't sleep with both eyes closed with that thug of a book sat right there, watching and waiting, do you? 😱

Oh no.

Well if you don't see me again you will know what has happened to me at least.

It's still there.

No violence so far…

No cats. No toddlers.

Wait 'til after midnight.

Nope. Still not scared of it.
It's still an inanimate object...

I’m having visions of the toothy monster book that chased Harry Potter around the room. Now that was a violent book.

Anne is now saying they have to physically recover every single copy? Can't see more from them, sadly.

Mine is on top of the complete set of Cormoran Strike also waiting by my bed. It is too late for me. Save yourselves!

I got the Kindle version. Much safer. No risk it’ll up and murder me in the middle of the night.

Oh dear lord, how do they cope with life!

It's a brilliant book, I highly recommend it.

I also have this book. It's kept hidden from my woke child like a dirty secret. Every so often it gets lent to someone else, wrapped in brown paper, passed with a whisper.
Feels like a rerun of when Lady Chatterley's Lover was the most controversial book you could own.

Sorry I know its serious but that statement is so funny. Imagine sitting down and writing that.

That statement may be in a history textbook one day, but not for the reason that they think it will be.

Leave it on their night stand inspector. With a wee cat filing their nails.

My copy has been borrowed by a teacher at my DC’s school. I’m assuming she’s still alive….

The hyperbole is just astounding. They’ve used up all the most awful adjectives possible…so which words do they use to describe something that really IS violent and harmful? They’re going to implode…