I had seen some movement to hopefully do it again but haven’t seen anything on when or if it will happen. Wanting to know if I should just start reading on my own or hold out and wait for the reading group, which would be my preference.

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    6 months ago

    I see you replied in @Vampire@hexbear.net’s thread in the theory comm. Not sure if they have a plan but it seems like it’s up for grabs at the moment.

    Call it volume 1-itis, but three volumes in a year was too fast for my attention span and schedule.

    I’m always down to reread volume 1. Always seems to reveal something new. In the past week I’ve been studying the first chapter in light of Rubin’s essays on it, so I would be eager to join the discussion if a new group starts

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      6 months ago

      Call it volume 1-itis, but three volumes in a year was too fast for my attention span and schedule.

      This was a tricky choice when I started it… do we:

      • Read four volumes in one year

      • Read just volume 1 in one year

      • Read 4 volumes in 4 years?

      Each of them have trade-offs, and they will fit different people better. But I think the choice I made is good: it’s a human pace, neither fast nor slow, and gets a lot of ground covered. If it lasted too long, more people would drop off in the middle.

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        6 months ago

        For sure. Not criticizing at all, I’m glad that people stuck with it.

        If hexbear had a larger user base, we might be able to have three concurrent groups, one for each volume. But yea, we don’t have enough people for that lol.

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      6 months ago

      Yep, threw my hat in the pile because I want it to happen for my own selfish reasons, and figured I shouldn’t just expect others to do it for me if I wasn’t going to pitch my own name into the hat. I haven’t read it before, so I’d really like to read it alongside comrades who can help my understanding along, and don’t want to just start up a reading group if there are already plans in place and step on people’s toes.