I’m going to start our conversation with my response to our March book, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. Please join in by commenting on this post. Feel free to take the conversation in a different direction. If you’d like to write a conversation starter of your own, please let me know (leave a comment andRead more about The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Let’s Talk[…]
Hello Dangerous Readers! I’m feeling that we haven’t done a very good job of upholding our promise in this project. We meant to launch each month with a post about the coming month’s book that contains resources and questions to frame your reading. Clearly, that didn’t happen this month. Nor did we do much withRead more about Of marathons, sprints, relays, and batons: Getting ready to discuss TGITTS[…]
When we began the book, we suggested this as a place to begin our reflection/conversation: As you read these stories, what are points of connection (things you can relate to because you can connect your own experience to the story) and points of disconnection (things you have a hard time relating to because you haven’t hadRead more about Let’s Talk: The Book of Unknown Americans[…]
Sorry for the late launch of our February book–migraine and a cold side-lined me (Rita) this week. But here we go! What you can expect: The last week of this month, we’ll post a reflection on our February book to start a conversation. The question we’d like everyone to think about as you’re reading isRead more about Getting started with The Book of Unknown Americans[…]
We are so excited to start reading and talking and thinking with all of you! Thanks to all of you who completed our survey to help us collectively select the books for our year of reading dangerously. There were no categories that had a lot more interest than others, so in the end we decidedRead more about We’ve got our books![…]
This is an invitation to take a risk, to spend a year reading the stories of Americans whose skin and lives might look pretty different from yours. People who might work, pray, love, and live differently from you. It’s an invitation to spend a year reading dangerously. We know. We can imagine your doubt. Maybe evenRead more about You’re invited…[…]
This is a collective project, which means that it will be shaped collectively by the people who are participating in it. Our first task is to choose the books we want to read and talk about together. Please take our survey to give your input. What we’re choosing from We’ve assembled a selection ofRead more about What should we read?[…]
As we read and talk this year, we’re going to have some hard conversations (if we’re doing this right). Hard conversations are good (if we do them right)! We’d like to offer these as agreements for conversation in this community. If you think these need to be changed in some way (tweaked, deleted, or addedRead more about Let’s talk[…]
Welcome! Please use the comments to introduce yourself to the members of our community. Some questions that might help you– What roles do you play that are most important to you? What parts of your identity are most important to you? Where have you lived? What are your reading tastes? What are some words that describeRead more about Nice to meet you…[…]