CoL49 Group Reading - Week 1 Summary & Questions

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun May 5 14:43:53 UTC 2024


*“ease the host burden by removing the synopsis (or making it optional if
anyone likes doing them?)”*

I think it’s useful to have a (brief) synopsis of each section, as a signal
to those only tangentially interested/involved to keep track of where we
are in the narrative. But its length, and the amount of “context”
(quasi-commentary) should be totally up to the individual host.  JK’s
synopsis was VERY thorough. Mine will be bare bones.  I think we risk the
thing to quick invisibility without it.

Discussion questions are the meat, and a host will have the opportunity to
focus attention on their section for a deeper dive at those. Of course,
everyone should take a stab at suggesting what they want to discuss

David Morris


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