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[Idea] Weekly Book Club
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Vicinus piefed.zip Vicinus@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-10-21
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Given the discourse in some of the Rimu posts in the last week, I thought it may be a good idea to do a weekly book club, to align people on anarchist principles. The alignment may not be needed for already identifying individuals, but could be a good way to allow others/outsiders to gain an understanding of anarchism, what it looks like, and what it means to be an anarchist.

I believe you already have something along those lines with the "FAQ Reading Group", but this would be for more historical/established/grounding literature.

The envisioned implementation would be: each week there would be a discussion post for that section/chapter (of a relevant, freely available book/literature) and a statement about the next section/chapter set for discussion the following week.

Let me know what you think.

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gurty lemmy.world gurty@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-03
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Good idea - even if just to prompt discussion and suggest the book to others.

Maybe just a Book of the Week with key quotes etc?

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Vicinus piefed.zip Vicinus@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-10-21
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Good idea - even if just to prompt discussion and suggest the book to others. Maybe just a Book of the Week with key quotes etc?

I think it would depend on the length of the book.

My viewpoint is the weekly reading should be digestible by the average user (reasonable number of pages). So if it's a short enough book I think that would be fine.

Having the whole book each week may get people interested in the book, but less likely to actually attempt or succeed at reading it all.

I think key quotes would be a good addition to the idea.

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Wobble lemmy.dbzer0.com Wobble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-11
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I think it would depend on the length of the book. My viewpoint is the weekly reading should be digestible by the average user (reasonable number of pages). So if it's a short enough book I think that would be fine. Having the whole book each week may get people interested in the book, but less likely to actually attempt or succeed at reading it all. I think key quotes would be a good addition ...

Zines are short and plentiful. This might not be the best example of 'book' reading. Maybe a book month with a few chapters each week?

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-11
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Sure, why not?

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