With The Banned
According to the American Library Association (ALA), Banned Book Week is usually celebrated at the end of this month.
What is September?
In the Disney franchise, Eddie Murphy is best known for being the voice of Donkey in Shrek and this character from a 1998 princess movie.
Who is Mushu?
Stereotypically masculine muscles on the stomach plus a sphere gives us this verb meaning to take in.
What is absorb?
Hand flexing; "I love you. Most ardently;" morning walks through misty moors -- all signs point to this character from the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice.
Who is Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Esquire?
Known as "Dragon's Den" in the UK and "The Tigers of Money" in Japan, this reality show debued in the US on ABC in 2009.
What is "Shark Tank"?
The title of Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give is based on this 90's hip-hop group, whose members include Tupac and Big Syke.
What is Thug Life?
This American composer and singer is responsible for many Pixar soundtrack hits, including "You've Got a Friend in Me" and "Monsters, Inc."
A shortened word for a marketing tool plus naturally occurring mineral gives us this word for affection.
What is adore?
Feyre and Tamlin are the featured romance of A Court of Thorns and Roses, but not later in the series. In the third novel, A Court of Wings and Ruin, Feyre is with this character.
Who is Rhysand?
This theme park is named after a legendary Tennesseean known for her music and charitable programs like the "Imagination Library," which gives families free kid's books every month.
What is Dollywood?
Ironically, a major theme in this 1987 Toni Morrison novel is parental choice. It is one of the most commonly banned books in American high schools, and to break the fourth wall, was very recently banned in my hometown county school system.
What is Beloved? (Rutherford Co. TN u are on my list)
This classic animated Disney movie shares tropes with Romeo and Juliet, including star-crossed lovers and the power of environment over individual desires.
What is The Fox and the Hound (1981)?
Second most popular household pet plus an indefinite article used in this clue plus a bitter mixer usually paired with gin gives us this state of unresponsive immobility.
What is catatonic?
In one of their first meetings, Anne Shirley hits Gilbert Blythe in the head with this object (deserved), beginning their mostly one-sided rivalry that eventually ends in romance.
What is a slate?
Real fans know: @tjmartinsonwritesbooks on this social media platform features series like "A Writer's Guide" and "Literary Diss Tracks."
What is TikTok?
Persepolis, a graphic novel series about a young girl growing up during the Islamic Revolution, was originally published in this language.
What is French?
Created by Walt Disney in 1927, this animated cartoon character would be redesigned into Mickey Mouse a year later when Universal Pictures took over the rights.
Who is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
A Catholic religious service plus a standard unit of land area gives us this indiscriminate slaughter.
In Emily Henry's Book Lovers, both members of the lead romance work in this occupation.
What is publishing?
This effect occurs when a person dedicates vast amounts of time to an activity which then alters their dreams and thoughts, named after a video game created by a Russian engineer in 1985.
What is the Tetris Effect?
Thomas Morton's New English Canaan became the first book banned in the U.S., on the basis of religious criticism and satirization. The ban was led by this group in Massachusetts in 1637.
What are Puritans?
Between 1932 and 1935, The Walt Disney Company held the patent for this product, giving them a temporary monopoly over movies in color.
What is Technicolor?
Cleopatra's snake plus an abrupt command to stop gives us this road-building material.
What is asphalt?
The publicized vision of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald's marriage was rocky, with trouble shown in the media over both their relationship and their writing. In the 60's, this husband and wife poetic duo received similar media attention over their personal lives, largely after the woman's death in 1963.
Who are Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath?
Held annually since 1936, the NFL Draft consists of this many rounds.
What is seven?