The Light Blinds Me To The Light — Books clubs are held on this discord server

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

If we did another book club on Discord, I would want to read…

“Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes

“Beyond Vietnam” by Martin Luther King Jr. (parallels to Palestine)

“Orestes” by Euripides (I’ll take care of you / It’s rotten work / Not to me…)

“The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges

Hozier’s self-titled album

The Book of Jonah

“The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Raven,” and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe

The Tao Te Ching

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Maria Garcia

“Picturing Deep Space is Deeply Human” & “Problem of Evolution as Progress”

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor

The comic book “Mister Miracle (2017)” by Tom King and Mitch Gerads

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Christian Abolitionism and Civil Rights Study Group on Discord

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This study group will discuss two Christian theological essays about the rights of African Americans – one written less than a decade before the American Civil War, and one written less than two years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Theodore Parker coined the term “the arc” of “the moral universe” in his sermon Of Justice and the Conscience. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. then brought “the arc of the moral universe” to Montgomery, Alabama in the essay Out of the Long Night.

We meet on the Discord Reading Group server on Tuesday 14 at 11:00 PM EDT

This will not replace our Sunday 19 reading group for Library of Babel

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Palestinian Love Poetry Reading List

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“If I write love poems, I resist the conditions that don’t allow me to write love poems.” — Mahmoud Darwish 

My Love Poems Are the Most Palestinian Thing About Me

Let Me Make a Home in Y (same author as the one above)

Three love poems on The Palestine Chronicle (my favorite is “Now, as You Awaken”)

Sixteen Love Poems on the AAWW (my favorite is the one by Hala Alyan)

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Upcoming Reading Groups Held on Discord

Short readings every week this summer! Full-length book in June!

Short readings (usually between 10 and 30 pages):

  • Hozier Songs and Genesis on Saturday 15 at 9 PM EDT: Two songs by Hozier that allude to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Listen to "From Eden" and "Be," and read the lyrics. Also read the first three chapters of Book of Genesis (all translations are fine).
  • Short stories from "Sum" by David Eagleman on Saturday 22 at 9 PM EDT: Short stories set in different afterlives. (We're still deciding which stories to do exactly.)

Full Length:

  • "House of Leaves" on Saturday June 29 10:00 PM EDT: An experimental haunted house novel in which the font, color, and shape of the text mutates

If you come to at least one meeting, you can suggest a text for us to read!

So long as one other person in the server is interested, I'll add it to the calendar.

for now we're not doing polls but the polls will return if there's a week without any suggestions
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What do you think is the most common request that people in prisons and jails send to free book programs? (Answer under the cut)

"1984" by George Orwell

"Fellowship of the Ring" by J. R. R. Tolkein

The Dictionary

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

The Bible

"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline

"The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The Communist Manifesto

"A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin

The Odyssey

The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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#I considered both the dictionary and bible as an option#But figured those were both red herrings as they would be obviously considered a necessity right?#(Not that one holy book *should* be prioritized over another but I still expect it to be with the everything about this country)#Poll (tags by @pirefyrelight)

There are some places that ban books from religious minorities! Off the top of my head, Montana bans the Multidenominational Wiccan Bible. I've never heard of an American prison banning the Christian Bible, but not all places provide it upon request -- sometimes, they sell it at such a steep price that it would take months to purchase one with prison labor wages.

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Oh! Also! They don’t always provide specific translations of the Christian Bible. That might not sound like a big deal, but

  1. Some denominations only acknowledge one specific translation
  2. Everyone has a right to the religious text most important to their own faith tradition, and in many cases different translations are functionally different texts
  3. There are scholars of literature, history, and theology locked up, and they deserve access to research materials
  4. Even if you’re not a scholar per se, you still deserve access to research material
  5. Literature as old as the Christian Bible is the universal property of humankind, and prisoners are human
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The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous has hundreds of pages of short autobiographical stories written by sober alcoholics. The rest of the Big Book functions as an instruction manual for following the Twelve Steps, which end with “carry this message to [other] alcoholics”.

There’s a whole chapter dedicated to this final step, and what absolutely fucking fascinates me is that it’s clearly written with the assumption that the alcoholic you’re approaching – the person who you’re trying to help – does not know what AA is.

The Big Book was first published in 1939, and it’s undergone little revision in that time. It’s so old that it predates groups in AA. Back then, meetings were one-on-one.

Most of the Big Book is timeless, but if it ever undergoes substantial revisions, I feel like that’s one of the first things they’d change. Today, I basically cannot imagine an alcoholic who has not at least heard the name Alcoholics Anonymous.

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