OFFICIAL NIKETALK BOOK CLUB. #NTBookClub: A Tale For The Time Being By Ruth Ozeki (June 2015)

I'm here for this. Sorry I can't figure out how to make the font red on my phone.

 

@davidme00

Thanks for setting up the thread Drew. Are we going to retire the old thread? I'm currently knocking out on average of a book a day (multiple books on the weekend) so I just want to know whether we should still post non-Book of the Month titles in here as well or keep those in the old thread

 

[COLOR=#red]Add me on the list, the summer awaits[/COLOR]

 

Na keep the old thread

 

@omariwestafari

On mobile so idk how to red text

Add me to the list fam

 

Yeah sure lets get it going

 

when does everyone want to start suggesting books?

 

quick take from Wikipedia about my book choice 2666

2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it relates, among other things, the unsolved and ongoing serial female homicides of Ciudad Juárez (called Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in World War II, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, time periods, and stories within stories.

The novel's five parts are linked by varying degrees of concern with unsolved murders of upwards of 300 young, poor, mostly uneducated Mexican women in Ciudad Juárez (Santa Teresa in the novel) though it is the fourth part which focuses specifically on the femicides.

 

I'd like to nominate "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"- Paulo Freire.

It discusses the relationship between teachers(the oppressors) and students(the oppressed) and how the current educational practices are flawed.

"In the book Freire calls traditional pedagogy the "banking model" because it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggy bank. However, he argues for pedagogy to treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge."

I've been always meaning to give this a read when Lupe referred to it in one of his interviews, it's more of a conscious read but I think it would make for great discussion.

 

How two days?

 

So these the books we are rolling with

 

We got 15 people right?

Hopefulyl we don't get a tie

 

Good job on setting all this up Drew. 

Lets get these votes in guys.