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A review by justabean_reads
On Community by Casey Plett
4.0
This is #8 in a series of pamphlets that publisher Biblioasis is calling Field Notes (which I had to look up, because the actual book in my hand didn't have either an explanation of the project or a list of the other pamphlets). I like the format! I know Casey Plett from her excellent novel Little Fish, and thought she did a great job exploring what community is.
By that, I mean that she hazards a definition for "Community," proposes alternate words or phrases that might better cover the interlocked concepts surrounding it, discusses the costs and benefits of different kinds of communities, what makes a good one, what the failure mode is. The pamphlet is organised in a series of very short chapters, often a page or two, which build on each other to layer the point Plett is making. I found it insightful and persuasive, and will be thinking about it for some time.
By that, I mean that she hazards a definition for "Community," proposes alternate words or phrases that might better cover the interlocked concepts surrounding it, discusses the costs and benefits of different kinds of communities, what makes a good one, what the failure mode is. The pamphlet is organised in a series of very short chapters, often a page or two, which build on each other to layer the point Plett is making. I found it insightful and persuasive, and will be thinking about it for some time.