*NEW*🔥 📚 A Non-Fiction Book Club For Curious Minds

💌 JOIN our NEW SUBSTACK to read the book summary 📕👇

https://rubyrossini.substack.com/

If you have not read the book, it's all right, you are still welcome to join!

Regardless of whether you have read the book, take the time to go through the summary ( it will be published on Substack a few days before our event ) - it will help to ground the conversation on an even level for everyone on Saturday. It is not AI-written - I write them myself and I aim to make them as in-depth as I possibly can.

For Announcements

Join our WhatsApp Group. I will announce here any new events and share the summary for those who are not on Substack: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G011Ugv9bah08PYlcQFJ4m

( This is the announcement group only - ONLY once you have attended the event, you'll be able to join the other group, which is for the community)

⛔️ No Show

Don't be a 💩. Our waitlist is usually chunky. If you can’t make it, change your RSVP, it only takes a second. Two consecutive no-shows and you will be removed from future signups.

Book of the Month

In our last chapter, Melissa Febos with Body Work illustrated the compelling necessity of personal narratives in the form of memoir and first person narratives—the uniquely written perspective of someone’s story, a story that cannot be questioned for objective truth but only humbly witnessed as experienced truth, the truth of a person’s life.

We now delve into such a lived and embodied tale through Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir Between the World and Me. Written as a letter to his son, Coates weaves together history, memoir, and urgent reportage to explore what it means to inhabit a Black body in a nation built on the falsehood of race. At once intimate and sweeping, this work confronts the legacies of slavery and segregation, the violence of the present, and the possibility of a freer future.

Named one of the New York Times’s 100 best books of the 21st century and hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” this is a bold and deeply personal exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist of a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race.”

If you have a problem getting yourself a copy of the book/s, get in touch!

Make a commitment 👏 📅

As the spots fill up pretty quickly, be quick to sign up - but do so ONLY if you make a real commitment to join.

We have an amazing, committed community that generously shows up, contributes, and gives its best. Sign up only if you are committed and eager to attend. Mark your calendar and make a commitment to yourself and your community.

Discussion

For the discussion, we’ll divide in smaller groups of around 4-6 as to have a more intimate environment to facilitate conversations where everyone can feel welcome to participate at their pace.

About Us

Welcome to "Curious Collective" – A Non-Fiction Book Club for Curious Minds.

If you find yourself here, chance is, you are curious. You are a wanderer, an explorer of ideas, seeking the 'whys' and 'hows' of our world, of what makes us human.

In a culture dominated by “hyper-connectivity”, we often lose sight of what truly matters; the treasure of ancient wisdom, the beauty of curiosity, and the profound meaning of community.

The Curious Collective is here to rekindle those flames. 🔥

We believe in the power of shared ideas, meaningful conversations, and sharing the journey.

As Joseph Addison wisely said, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Our collective mission is to exercise our minds, curiosity, and sense of belonging to a community of like-minded people.

We are not: Intellectual W*nkers or debate-club warriors here. We keep it real, there is no intellectual or self-righteous snobbery here.

We are: Ordinary humans who crave knowledge, connection—someone to chat with, share ideas, and journey alongside.

Tips:
I suggest having a notebook/ a place where you can take notes of the most interesting parts & thoughts you had - this is going to be very helpful for the discussion.

Stay Curious – for there's always more to discover.