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We take it for granted that we have a Constitutionally-protected right both to Free Speech, and the Freedom to Read.
 
But remember, freedom requires vigilance.  There are those who would seek to limit what we can read, even here in the United States. 

We're nearing the end of the 30th Annual National Banned Books Week .

Want to read a Banned Book?  Let me give you some ideas:

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If you ask Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Vikings really know how to party.

I'm willing to bet that every time you read about the Vikings in school, they were always the "bad guys."  Bernard Cornwell's Last Kingdom, the first in his (thus far) six-book Saxon Stories, turns that on its head.
 

It's 866. Bebbanburg Castle is taken by the Danes.