Substack Archives - Victoria Waddle

9 Jan 2024

Preemptively Banning Books is No Way to Curate a Collection

by Victoria Waddle | posted in: Book Reviews, Censorship | 1

I’ve switched to writing almost all my content on my Substack “Be a Cactus: thoughts on resistant writers and how we bloom.” It’s a weekly post delivered on Sunday morning. It’s very similar to what you have received from me … Continued

9 Oct 2023

My Experiences in Book Banning

by Victoria Waddle | posted in: Censorship | 0

Removing library books from the shelf for later review is essentially banning them, no matter what the censors say.

Book Reviews from my blog (Click for over 600 reviews): School Library Lady

Sexism and Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World

Virtually every girl and woman I see in therapy feels as if they got away with something when they experience success. They bring up the term ‘imposter syndrome’ and say, ‘that’s me exactly.’”

Sometimes We Tell the Truth

Sometimes is, in fact, a modern telling of Chaucer’s tales with teens as the pilgrims. Except that these pilgrims are not making a commitment to the Almighty. They are going to Washington D.C . on a six-hour bus trip with their Civics class teacher.