#slowBookClub meta post

I am SUPER pleased with how the book club is going. I'm reading challenging things because I'm creating a social contract that I will, AND I'm getting really amazing and illuminating discussions with the folks who show up! The book club part still feels like a "bonus" but more and more like a really good one! Also everyone who has joined any iteration of it has been really wonderful and great to talk with.

Big thanks to everyone who has participated. You are all so fun to learn things with!

#slowBookClub will be back at the end of March. (6p Pacific, on Tuesday March 31 https://everytimezone.com/s/2b199dc7)

​We're reading Part 2 of Abolition Geography , Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://bookshop.org/p/books/abolition-geography-essays-towards-liberation-ruth-wilson-gilmore/81ff3aa7e0363ddc

Part 2 is titled "Race and Space" (presumably space as in "geography"!) and is about 100 pages.

Part 1 was kind of setting the stage of scholarship and activism. I'm honestly more excited for the other parts. You are totally welcome to join us if you read some of Part 2 even if you skip Part 1. (i do think you might like the last section of Part 1, which is also quite short)

sign up here https://luma.com/fzukzvz1 for a reminder!

What are you currently reading?

Finding The Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, about trees' communication and symbiotic relationships with each other and with the fungi and other life in the soil.
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What did you recently finish reading?

The Last Hour Between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso

What do you think you’ll read next?

Abolition Geography, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, for #SlowBookClub

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#slowBookClub resumes Tues, Feb 24, 6p Pacific https://everytimezone.com/s/b3e30825

​We're reading Part 1 of Abolition Geography , Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://bookshop.org/p/books/abolition-geography-essays-towards-liberation-ruth-wilson-gilmore/81ff3aa7e0363ddc

The book is conveniently split into 4 parts, so I am proposing we read it in 4 sessions.

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Top rated fiction books I read this year (in the order of reading):

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue
She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

Nonfiction, I want to shout out
We Do This 'Til We Free Us - Mariame Kaba
and thanks to #slowBookClub for the reading company!