Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: April 2022

Friday, April 22, 2022

Tues, April 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss two Neil Gaiman short stories: Adventure Story and Orange.

Find them on page 71 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.

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Friday, April 8, 2022

Tues April 12 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Join us to discuss Letter of Apology by Maria Riva.

In Russia under the watchful eye of the KGB:

Don't think
If you think, don’t speak.
If you think and speak, don’t write.
If you think, speak and write, don’t sign.
If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised.

Find it on page 215 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019

The story references a short video: Hedgehog in the fog with english voices

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Basic Guidelines for Shared Inquiry

Read the selection carefully before participating in the discussion. This ensures that all participants are equally prepared to talk about the ideas in the work.
Most of us need to read short stories more than once.
Support your ideas with evidence from the text. This keeps the discussion focused on understanding the selection and enables the group to weigh textual support for different answers.
Discuss the ideas in the selection and try to understand them fully before exploring issues that go beyond the selection. Reflecting on the ideas in the text and the evidence to support them makes the exploration of related issues more productive.
Listen to other participants and respond to them directly. Directing your comments and questions to other group members, not always to the leader, will make the discussion livelier and more dynamic.
Expect the leader to only ask questions. Effective leaders help participants develop their own ideas, with everyone gaining a new understanding in the process. Participants should look to the leader for questions, not answers.