Hey #WithTheBanned readers!! Discussion posts for our August book are coming. Like always, I‘ll tag everyone in the first post. There are 5 questions in total.
Also, in the next few weeks, I‘ll put up a post for suggestions for 2026 reads. Start thinking about books you‘d like to see on the schedule next year.
pickHeavy. So many possible interpretations. Intense. Upsetting. It‘s all the things. 👁️
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Hey #WithTheBanned readers!
I apologize, but time got away from me and there will be no discussion for July.
Our August book is Speak. Hopefully I‘ll be back on track with discussion posts this month.
Apologies in advance, bc I keep snapping photos of sections for myself. Not unlike Fahrenheit 451, Parable of the Sower, or The Handmaid‘s Tale, I‘m floored by how resonant this feels to right now. #WithTheBanned
Photo still is from the Broadway play production of 1984 - on the boards in New York for 125 performances and 38 previews from May to October 2017. For some reason I was thinking it was pre-Trump Part 1! Time feels like it‘s collapsing on me. I saw it around July, I believe. Olivia Wilde made her debut in it as Julia (second from the left).
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Would you believe I never formally read this cover to cover before? I saw a play interpretation on Broadway about 10-ish years ago (considering current affairs in the US, weren‘t we naive then?). It blows my mind the unexpected foresight Orwell seemed to have. Published in 1949 and yet…
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