damned_colonial (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
damned_colonial) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
readingthepast2009-05-30 03:59 pm
damned_colonial) wrote in readingthepast2009-05-30 03:59 pm
Mod post: theme suggestions
Please suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
Re: The Caribbean
But I wanted to provide an idea of the different areas.
A lot of people don't even know what we mean when we say "The Caribbean" or "The Antilles." Yet this region has had a profound global significance and effect.
Plus I wanted to show the swashbuckling side! Coz, you know, so much of this history as history (as opposed to culture) is pretty dayemed grim.
Love, C