An Evening to Select Our Next Book
Next Zoom meeting: Friday,April 16 5-6:30 p.m. Pacific time
HOMEWORK:
We have a list of 30 books that have been suggested for our next read. You can find the list here:
http://ixian.com/ead/passages/insight-meditation-center--dharma-friends-reading-recommendations--2020-2021.html
We need a strategy to focus our conversation for this Friday.
1. First,no more book will be added at this point to the list for this cycle.
2. Everybody,please bring the names of your three favorite books from the list.
· Why does this book interest you? If possible, have a excerpt of the book that we can read together.
· The link above has an alphabetical list of our book prospects with links either to the book itself (for many of the monastic offerings) or a link to the book on goodreads.com. For the books on available on Amazon, many have a“look inside” feature which allows you to read an excerpt from the book.
3.Do we want our next book to shift away from books by or about monastics? Several have suggested this as our last 10 books have been by or about monastics (if you include “Where are You Going”). If that is your leaning, the eight or so books that meet that criteria have been pulled out in a list on the above link.
4. If we choose a book that is not freely downloadable, we will also need a short bridge book that we can download. This will give us something to read for a couple of weeks until books arrive. Keep that in mind as you look over the book list.
5. After we collect and discuss people’s three favorite books, Eric suggested we try ranked choice voting to select the winner for our next book.
The Dharma-Inspired book group is self-led. For our current book, Anne Foster is acting as facilitator and contact person: afoster@rawbw.com.
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