September 10, 2026

I'm writing a book for the Governor of Texas

I'm a book nerd and I believe reading is beneficial to everyone. It develops language, ideas, perspective, empathy, fantasy, and many more human traits and skills.

I saw a report that a Lt. Governor in Texas banned a list of "dirty books" from schools and libraries in the US. The list includes great works like "A Clockwork Orange" (which I was taught in school), Stephen King's "11/22/63", and "The Handmaid's Tale" (now a major Netflix success).

I assume the people who built the list did not read Fahrenheit 451 but did read 1984.

"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." - Syme from George Orwell's 1984.

If this list pulls through I see no other choice than to write a book, which is actually on my bucket list, that is so good that it makes it to the governor's "dirty list".