A challenge to read outside your comfort zone in the new year.
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A challenge to read outside your comfort zone in the new year.
Some of the highlights from a year of intentionally reading more widely and from diverse perspectives. It has been without a doubt my best year of reading yet. New challenge list for 2018 coming soon!
Last winter I challenged myself (and you) to read outside of our echo chambers. To build empathy by reading from and about people who are different than us on many levels. Now, in follow up to my most recent post, and on a day that celebrates a man in our history who suffered from a lack of empathy towards those who were different (to put it very mildly), I came up with this list of 5 books I've read this year that I think are incredibly examples of the power of fiction to express empathy and create more empathetic readers.
I promise I like things besides books and podcasts, but none immediately come to mind. So here's another round of books and podcasts that I like.
Hey, it's June already! How did this happen? (Actually, I do know about the revolution of the Earth around the sun, so I guess that's how this happened). But I'm a couple days late for my definitely monthly round up of cultural/literary things I liked this past month!
If you get into this argument, you will spend at least 10 minutes on your first response. Then they will inevitably respond and next thing you know it will be Thursday evening and you will be ready to quit social media forever.
So here are some ideas for what you could with that time instead of responding:
If you're tired to pretending you don't want to read kids' books again, consider this permission to give in. Here are five books that may have been written for kids, but they are definitely not simple.
