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RC2015 – December: Between the World and Me
My advice for reading this novel: Be consumed. Read it all at once. Don’t let the world, your prejudices, other tasks get in the way – if only for the time you read the pages – of being wholly consumed by this subject, this letter, and the profound words of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Recently I saw a comment under a social media posting from a local news station that read: “Could you refrain from posting about war, death, and terror until after the holiday season? It would be nice to just enjoy positive stories this time of year.” The ability to just push aside the negativity of the world in honor…
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RC2015 – December Intro
Happy December 1st! I’ve said it a thousand times, but I’ll say it again: I cannot believe another month has passed. This new one is bigger than the rest of course, because it’s the last of 2015. Yikes. I hope you got the chance to read my November Reading Challenge Wrap-Up, and if you didn’t that’s okay, it’s not a prerequisite to December’s. I am scaling back to one book this month, because I’m anticipating heavier subject matter that I want to take more time to get through, and with the holidays in full force I will be busier than usual. For this month, I am reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the…
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