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[close] Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Titleless Book Club! Here’s a little bit about this book club: ~ Everybody is welcome! Although intended for young adult readers, anybody can join this group! ~ This is a YA book club. We mostly read young adult fiction, but we will likely read other genres as well. ~ The main goal of this group is to connect readers! We want you to have fun, so any reading is optional. My name is Leah, and I started this group. I am new to running a group. I’ve never done anything serious before, especially not on Goodreads. Please tell me if there is anything I can improve in. What’s Happening in the Group? ~ We are currently reading our June BOTM (Book of the Month), Wilder Girls by Rory Power. ~ Please leave suggestions for the July BOTM to decide what we’ll read next. ~ Feel free to comment suggestions for challenges in the designated discussion. Feel free to make new discussions and polls, as long as it follows the rules.

[close] Created by Mr. Booth, this group is all about reading and commenting on books that reflect members' interests and concerns for community and society-at-large. We are readers, writers, teachers, and students. We are dedicated to supporting each other at every level of literacy as we discuss great books in this online forum.

[close] Hey yall, I'm Romeo. Back two years ago, one of my teachers gave me a book called the New Jim Crow and told me that before too long I'd have the kind of influence to make a difference in this world. I read it cover to cover and couldn't stop thinking about it. I have read more books about the inadequacies that are tolerated and encouraged in the United States that allow a small number of people to exercise absolute control over the rest of us. Give a person a badge and a gun and they can get away with anything, at least until you murder a man on video and people finally start wiping the sleep out of their eyes and asking questions. This is not a black vs. white group. This is group for people who are frustrated by the way some individuals and groups are allowed to exist above the law and control those of us who are below it. I have read some amazing books during the quarantine and talked to alot of cool people here. I want to hear your ideas and try to build ideas with you on how we can make change happen and stick. Killing each other in riots won't work. I can't wait to hear your ideas. It's a cheesy quote for what we gonna try to do here, but I'm going to quote the original pimp Billy Dee Williams from The Rise of Skywalker about how I feel about this. Poe Dameron says to the Rebels, "I'm sorry my friends, I thought we had a shot but there's just too many of them." Radio crackles and then here's Lando saying, "But there are more of us, Poe. There are more of US." Poe looks up and there's thousands of ships flying in to fight. One Imperial looks at the other and says, "Where did we get all these craft from? They have no Navy." The other Imperial says, "It's not a navy sir, it's just people." That's us right now. Just people. But there are more of us. RL

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