The Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group meets this week for our annual potluck and book selection meeting. We’ve been reading together for nine years and have read 84 books! We’ve been at this long enough that we sometimes forget … Continue reading →
My inter-racial book club, the Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group, specializes in books on race in America. We’ve been together for nine years and continue to welcome new members. I’ll write a post in a week or two … Continue reading →
Book: March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell Genre: Graphic “novel” autobiography Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Publication date: 2016 Pages: 246 Source: Library Summary: The third volume of John Lewis’s autobiography, March, begins with tragedy on … Continue reading →
Last night was the annual potluck and book selection meeting of the Community for Understanding and Hope (CFUH) Book Group. Let’s start off with the food. So good! We had a huge number of salads and goodies with a great … Continue reading →
The Community for Understanding and Hope (CFUH) Book Group, which I often call the Diversity Book Club on this blog and a friend of mine calls “Joy’s Radical Book Club,” completes another year this month. We’ve been reading books about … Continue reading →
As I wrote in a previous post, I’m making a table display about my book group for a local educator’s conference. I’ve been using the Learn in Public workbook by Doug Neill to structure this project, including writing blog posts about my … Continue reading →
Reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert is a great way to get my New Year off to creative start! Join me for a Read Along. This week, we’re discussing Part 1, Courage. That section is only 27 pages long, so jump right … Continue reading →
As I mentioned last week, when I listed all 64 books that our book group has read so far, our annual selection meeting was on Thursday. Participants brought in 41 titles for us to consider, from which (after a multiple … Continue reading →
The annual book selection and potluck meeting of the Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group is this week — our most fun meeting of the year! I usually call this group the Diversity Book Club on my blog since that’s … Continue reading →
Book: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Genre: Novel Publisher: Random House Publication date: Originally published in 1952 Pages: 581 Source: Library Summary: Invisible Man tells the story of an unnamed young black man from the day he gives a speech … Continue reading →