Having recently completed reading Sir Arther Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, I went online to do some research on the novel. It's an interesting story, and I enjoyed the historical references to events in the U.S. West from the perspective of a Brit. I was a bit surprised that a Virginia school district removed the book from its 6th grade reading list due to a protest from a parent about the books proposed anti-Mormon ton e. Seriously? An absence of blog posts regarding the removal decision does not exist. Adding my own opinion to so many others may seem trivial, but I seriously had to make some comment about the decision to remove the book from the approved reading list. Notice I did not mention "ban". The book from simply removed from a 6th grade approved reading list. The reason for its removal does, of course, smack of the same ignorance that caused mass book burnings in Germany in the last century. As any sensible person would recognize,...
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