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- Talking to Strangers Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women continue Season Two with “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know” by Malcolm Gladwell. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “Talking to Strangers”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of Gladwell’s other books and podcasts, basketball, making an expert, and predicting divorce, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of the book.
Discussion Points:
- Personal journals - what are the first impressions of the book?
- What is Talking to Strangers about?
- What do you think of other Malcolm Gladwell Books and his podcast, Revisionist History?
- Underhand versus overhand free throw shots in basketball
- Do 10,000 hours of practice make an expert?
- Can you predict divorce by Dr. John Gottman’s The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell Books
Revisionist History
“This One Thing is the Biggest Predictor of Divorce” - The Gottman Institute
36 min - Off The Shelf Episode 3 -Little "t" Traumas
The following episode of Book Interrupted is Off The Shelf. Hold on to your bookmarks! The Book Interrupted women talk about “little t” traumas in their lives and bonus tarot card readings from Kim. What happened to them and what will happen to them?
Discussion Points:
- Sarah’s wax on the eyeballs story
- Meredith’s Great Dane dog stories
- Lindsay’s falling Christmas tree story
- Kim’s bike accident and maxi pad arms story
- Lia’s curdled chocolate milk and public vomiting story
- Kara’s acne drawing story
- What do you think about the tarot card readings for the members - Page of Pentacles, Justice, Two of Cups, Three of Pentacles, High Priestess, Nine of Wands?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
58 min - What Happened to you? Episode 6
Concluding their series on “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, the women discuss follow-ups and fan responses during the book cycle, Ikea furniture, Britney, Uncle Buck, the dangers of eating magnets, dog-earring pages of books, giant bookshelves, merkins, and all the pop culture references.
Discussion Points:
- Follow up from the Cyndi Lauper challenge
- Pop culture documentaries - Britney, Pink
- Meet the members of Book Interrupted
- Putting Ikea furniture together - do you like doing it?
- New feedback on Seeing Red - getting your period again at 50 years old
- Fluctuating estrogen levels as women get older - eat more or less meat?
- Our Book Interrupted blog: Manuscript Mondays, Topic Tuesdays, Word Wednesdays, Thought Thursdays, Facts Fridays, Silly Saturdays, mixed Sundays
- Eating random things including brick walls, Lego, and magnets
- Do you dog-ear pages of books, or what do you use as a bookmark?
- Do you lend or give away your books?
- Reading books and understanding the language written a long time ago
- Are books better than their movie versions?
- Merkins - pubic wigs
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual AlbumFraming Britney Spears
Britney vs. Spears - Netflix
P!nk: All I Know So Far - Amazon
The Handmaid’s Tale
Seeing Red: The One Book Every Woman Needs to Read. Period. by Kirsten Karchmer
Liv Fit Freedom
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jen Gunther
The Hormone Reset Diet: The Ultimate Guide to Heal Your Metabolism, Balance Your Hormones, and Lose up to 5 Pounds in 7 Days by Sara Gottfried M.D.
Uncle Buck
The Great Outdoors
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
57 min - What Happened to you? Episode 5
The women finish their chat and share their final book reports inspired by “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry. Do they recommend the book?
Discussion Points:
- Would we recommend the book?
- Does the book keep getting worse? Is there a happy ending?
- Being able to not finish a book to take care of oneself.
- Being an entrepreneur
- Final book reports
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Rocketman42 min - What Happened to you? Episode 4
Spiderman, déjà vu, synesthesia, Cyndi Lauper, A Million Little Pieces, apologies, community, asking for help, and making friends as an adult. Lots of tangents this week! The women continue their chat inspired by “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry.
Discussion Points:
- Déjà vu - is it mindfulness, something we don’t understand about time, a sign from the universe, or something else?
- Synesthesia - are your senses linked?
- The new Spiderman movie and do you like movie previews?
- Restrictions in different parts of Canada
- Controversy about A Million Little Pieces, author James Frey and Oprah Winfrey, Cancel Culture, and apologies
- Cyndi Lauper - do you like her music?
- The importance of community in raising children, making new friends as an adult, and asking for help can be difficult
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Spider-Man: No Way HomeA Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Oprah Confronts James Frey
Oprah and James Frey Clear the Air
34 min - What Happened to you? Episode 3
The Book Interrupted women share their personal journals while reading “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry. Lots of trigger warnings - this was a hard one to read for some of the members. Were you impacted emotionally, intellectually or both? And where is the hope in this book?
Discussion Points:
- This is a hard book to read. Trigger warning.
- Link between biological and psychological health
- Déjà vu - what is it?
- The importance of social relationships with depth
- Coping mechanisms
- Implicit bias from when we are children
- The impact on children in their first few months of their life
- Where is the hope? Was the book told without empathy?
- Learning about others who had past trauma
- Did this book impact you emotionally or intellectually or both?
- Trauma on a spectrum
- Missing the protective factors and talk of risk factors
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
49 min - What Happened to you? Episode 2
The Book Interrupted women continue their conversation on “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, exploring topics of triggers, choice, deep breathing, filling your bucket, and the impact the first few years of a child’s life have on their adulthood.
Discussion Points:
- What triggers you now, that could relate to your childhood?
- Taking a breath between reacting and responding
- Deep breathing to take you out of fight or flight
- Children lashing out to find their autonomy
- Is there such a thing as too much choice?
- The structure of the book - diagrams, aesthetics, style
- Losing your bookmark
- Filling your bucket and how that is affected by your childhood
- Teaching by example
- The impact in the first few years of a child’s life, versus when older
- Postpartum depression and after-birth care
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin
The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown
41 min - What Happened to you? Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women begin Season Two with “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “What Happened to You”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of their childhoods, emotional regulation, and trauma, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of the book.
Discussion Points:
- Personal journals - what are the first impressions of the book?
- What happened to you, not what is wrong with you
- How do you regulate your emotions?
- What happened to us in our childhoods that made us who we are now
- The conversational format of the book - did you like it?
- How can this book help the friends and family of those who’ve experienced trauma?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Dr. Gabor Maté’s The Wisdom of Trauma
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd
The Onion
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
42 min - Off The Shelf Episode 2 -Bestie, Boink, Battle or Barf?
The following episode of Book Interrupted is Off The Shelf. Hold on to your bookmarks! The Book Interrupted women continue their new segment filled with lots of silliness, fun and laughs. Who would you Bestie, Boink, Battle, or Barf? And did the women complete their Meditation Challenge?
Discussion Points:
- Bestie Boink Battle Barf Quiz Show
- Meditation Challenge - did the women continue with it?
- Confined spaces - do you like them?
- Near death experiences
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Surviving Death - Netflix Documentary Series
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
37 min - Season One Recap Part 2
Welcome to part two of our recap of Book Interrupted Season One! Listen to what the members think were the funniest, most surprising and most embarrassing moments. What did they learn about each other? And a teaser for next season’s books!
Discussion Points:
- If you had to pick one other author from last season to come on the show, who would you choose?
- What was one positive surprise you got as a result of doing the podcast?
- What were the funniest moments?
- What were the most embarrassing moments?
- What was your favourite and least favourite books?
- What did we learn about other members?
- Which members like deadlines, and which hand things in early?
- Which book are you looking forward to most in the new season?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Seeing Red: The One Book Every Woman Needs to Read. Period. by Kirsten Karchmer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life by Karma Brown
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellers
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski and Emily NagoskiFifty Shades of Grey by EL James
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson, Neil Strauss
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
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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.