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- Off The Shelf Episode 6 with Karma Brown
Author Karma Brown of “The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life”, joins the Book Interrupted women and fan Lindsay for a chat about finding the time for yourself, raising children, rhubarb baking, and Roe v. Wade. This episode of Book Interrupted is Off The Shelf. Hold on to your bookmarks!
Discussion Points:
- The 4% Fix conversational style
- Finding the hour for yourself - when can you find your time? And what do you use your time for?
- Raising children at different ages
- Difference in time management for adults with kids versus without
- How did the pandemic affect your personal time/projects?
- Procrastibaking
- Roe v. Wade
- How to help - show up and get involved
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life by Karma Brown
Home Under Clutter - Fan Lindsay’s blog
Smitten Kitchen
How Did Roe Fall? Before a Decisive Ruling, a Powerful Red Wave, NY Times, by Kate Zernike
V For Vendetta
Karma Brown Instagram
53 min - The Midnight Library Episode 6
Limbo in limbo; vintage shopping; and full belly laughs. Concluding their series on “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, the women discuss follow-ups and fan responses during the book cycle.
Discussion Points:
- Have you ever lost a friend over their recommendation of books?
- Do you want to stay in the never-ending “library” like Hugo?
- Limboing in limbo
- Having sex in all the different lives - would you do it a lot?
- Similar themes on the screen
- Saving clothing that you love, even if it’s caught on fire, and the vintage shop movement
- Seeing Red in the library
- Revisiting bird calls and bird stories
- Full belly laughs
- Here’s my coffee cup and here’s what I’m reading - Insta challenge
- Next book cycle Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Book Interrupted Playlists
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Crash (2004)
Crash (1996)
Two Truths and a Lie - Book Interrupted episode
styledemocracy.com-Courage My Love
Seeing Red: The One Book Every Woman Needs to Read. Period. by Kirsten Karchmer
What The Robin Knows Fan Episode - Bird Call Challenge
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
La Vie en Rose
The Midnight Playlist
51 min - The Midnight Library Episode 5
The Book Interrupted women finish their discussion on “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, then share their final book reports. Do they recommend the book?
Discussion Points:
- Do they recommend the book?
- Short chapters
- What time do you go to bed?
- Good for a book club
- Parallel universes
- Final book reports
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Off The Shelf: Two Truths and a Lie
32 min - The Midnight Library Episode 4
The Book Interrupted women and Virginia continue the group discussion about “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig. They discuss kindness & relationships, whether suicide is courageous or not, wine-book pairings, and then imagine their own midnight libraries.
Discussion Points:
- Kindness, hard lessons, the impact of relationships
- Suicide – is it brave or not?
- Pairing wine with books!
- The members name their libraries and their alternate lives
- Meredith’s Midnight Used Book Store
- Lindsay’s Midnight Wine Cellar & Jancis Robinson
- Sarah’s Midnight Bakery & her boss Margaret
- Kim’s Midnight Boardgame Café or improv game & her grade 11 law teacher
- Lia’s Midnight Hotel with different beds & Brutus the dog
- Virginia’s Midnight Record Store
- Kara’s Midnight Green Room & Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- Amusement parks, too much adrenaline, and colliding with birds
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Jancis Robinson - Wine Critic
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With The Wolves
Seinfeld Gene’s Picks
48 min - The Midnight Library Episode 3
The Book Interrupted women and Virginia share their personal thoughts at the halfway mark of reading “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, then continue in the group discussion. The women discuss depression, the unpredictable outcomes of choices, and fiction versus reality. What roles do philosophy, perspective, & mindset have in regret? How does the language of mental health change the conversation?
Discussion Points:
- Philosophy, perspective, and mindset
- Choices change life in unpredictable ways
- Connecting with the main character, or not
- Depression
- Micro dosing
- Fiction versus real life
- Language change for the good
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Matt Haig
Everything Everywhere All At Once Official Trailer
Quantum Leap TV Show Opening Credits
46 min - The Midnight Library Episode 2
The Book Interrupted women and Virginia continue the conversation about “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig. They discuss acceptance instead of regret, abortion, right choices with bad feelings, and the happiest life yet.
Discussion Points:
- Living without regret –decisions make us
- Unpacking feelings about abortion
- Making the right choice sometimes feels bad
- Dog-killing babies
- Time travel movies starring Rachel McAdams
- The stairway to happiness
- Kids giving themselves haircuts
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
About Time Official Trailer
Time Traveler’s Wife Official Trailer
34 min - The Midnight Library Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women welcome Virginia and kickoff the first fan book choice of Season 2: “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig. The women individually give their first impressions of the book, and continue in the group chat. They discuss fate, soulmates, parallel universes, purgatory, Gene’s Picks from Seinfeld, and (of course) regret.
Discussion Points:
- Book Interrupted welcomes Virginia to the fan book cycle
- Devouring the book – the right way and wrong way
- Gene’s Picks – finding your Gene or your Elaine for books or beliefs
- Fate, soulmates, parallel universes, and purgatory
- Bad things can be good things
- Poetry, philosophy, and book coming into life at the right time
- Bird interruption aka Jon Young is a sneaky guy
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Matt Haig
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Leading Change by John Kotter
Seinfeld Gene’s Picks
Another Earth - Official Trailer
Spiderman: No Way Home - Official Trailer
46 min - Off The Shelf Episode 5 - Two Truths and a Lie
The following episode of Book Interrupted is Off the Shelf. Hold on to your bookmarks! The
Book Interrupted women play Two Truths and a Lie. Can you guess which one is a lie?
Discussion Points:
- The unlikely accidents that left scars on Lindsay’s hands
- The embarrassing things that happened to Lia while she was working on a tattoo
- Meredith’s bat blood potion, university professor romance, and sea turtle encounter
- Kara’s drunken brother-in-law stories, and a close encounter with a deer
- The famous people Kim has met
- Sarah’s accident-prone stories that are better than lies
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Behind Her Eyes on Netflix
Jordan Knight from The New Kids On The Block
Topher Grace from That '70s Show
Lance Bass from NSYNC
Toe Touches / Russians
40 min - What the Robin Knows Episode 6
Concluding their series on “What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World” by Jon Young, the women discuss follow-ups and fan responses during the book cycle. Naked in the forest, multiple penises, doing it birdie style, self-esteem & mirrors, and Bird Call Challenge.
Discussion Points:
- Squiggy’s Stumble Forward T-shirt
- Twitter reactions & realizing Twitter account names aren’t always their real name
- Topic Tuesday quote: “Every living being has a purpose”
- More on naturists, naturalists, and nudists
- Multiple penises (or is it peni?)
- Self-esteem, self-consciousness, and mirrors.
- Doing it birdie style
- These are the birds in our neighbourhood
- Book Interrupted members answer the Bird Call Challenge
- Do you read one book at a time or multiple books?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
Bird Language Audio Library
Jon Young
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Bird Songs
A Fed Bear Is A Dead Bear
The Kids in the Hall -- Chicken Lady
57 min - What the Robin Knows Episode 5
The Book Interrupted women finish their discussion on “What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World” by Jon Young, then share their final book reports. Do they recommend the book?
Discussion Points:
- The last chapter
- Listening to the birds
- Exercises and techniques learned from the book
- Mindful meditation, nature, and forest bathing
- Forest bathing and wine tasting
- Thinking about your senses
- Do we recommend the book?
- The Challenge - listen to a bird and replicate their song
- Final book reports
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
Bird Language Audio Library
Jon Young
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About Book Interrupted
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Welcome to Book Interrupted, a book club for busy people to connect and one that celebrates life’s interruptions.