Casual Book Club: The Dispossessed

Hello my beautiful beings :)

I’m starting a CASUAL BOOK CLUB where we read books together and meet up for a livestream to discuss after we have finished reading it. Tentatively planning to stream it on YouTube??? Still working on the exact details.

For our FIRST CBC, we are reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. It’s a Huge & Nebula Award winning classic and a certified HOOD CLASSIC. Total banger!

I encourage you to buy a copy from your local independent/used/brick&mortar book store IF you have one AND they carry the book. BUT if you don’t have that option and/or they don’t carry it, please use the link provided above so baby can get a CUT of that AMAZON ACTION & make a lil extra spendin' money ;)

As you read the book, please underline your favorite passages, write ur notes/questions/thoughts in the margins, and dog-ear that page so you can find it again later so when we meet to chat about it you have some thangs ready.

What day of the week are you aa in? Is a weekday evening ok??? Or we thinking Saturday?? The stream would be a couple hours. Thinking of meeting the first week of FEB. WHAT SAY YOU????

Here is the official blurb:

The Dispossessed is the spellbinding story of anarchist Shevek, the “galactically famous scientist,” who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.

Anarres, Shevek’s homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—defined by warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to unify the two civilizations. In the face of great hostility, outright threats, and the pain of separation from his family, he makes an unprecedented trip to Urras. Greater than any concern for his own wellbeing is the belief that the walls of hatred, distrust, and philosophic division between his planet and the rest of the civilized universe must be torn down. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and explore differences in customs and cultures, determined to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.

To visit Urras—to learn, to teach, to share—will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. Almost immediately upon his arrival, he finds not the egotistical philistines he expected, but an intelligent, complex people who warmly welcome him. But soon the ambitious scientist and his gift is seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change.

The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition]: A Special Edition of the Nebula Award-Winning Classic (Amazon)