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We did it! We read one of the most emotionally challenging books together and we are still friends! I never doubted us. I didn't. I was glad to see a bit more engagement this time around. That was fun! And, I hope, if we continue with another book, we'll have even more people feeling comfy in the …
Continue Reading about Forward: Between the World and Me, A Summary and a Survey
I'm going to be straight up with you and say I often feel the exact same hopelessness Ta-Nehisi has expressed throughout this book, and which so many of you have raised concerns about. There are moments that I want to throw my hands in the air and say, "I surrender." Today, my husband and I …
"I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next." —Ta-Nehisi Coates Once again, thank you for your gracious conversation as we discuss this book. It's a heavy one, isn't it? There is so much potential for the conversation to go off the …
Continue Reading about Forward: Between the World and Me, Part Two
Thanks so much for the conversation last week, everyone. If you're following along and have something you'd like to contribute to the conversation — a question, a viewpoint, an idea — but you're not feeling comfortable about sharing it, please hang in there with us. You are welcome here. I've …
Continue Reading about Forward: Between the World and Me, Part One, cont’d.
Never before have I wanted so badly to sit at a table with my readers and talk face-to-face. This book! I'm hoping I can do it justice in this space. I decided, the best thing to do is to share my reaction with you as a jumping off point for our conversations. Please don't feel as if you have to …
Continue Reading about Forward: Between the World and Me | Part One
Thank you for voting to read Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. I don't know if I would have gotten to it, were it not for your votes to read this one together. I admit to reading the book through once already, in anticipation of reading it with you. I wanted to have a good sense of how …
Continue Reading about Forward: An Introduction to “Between the World and Me”
