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- From the Ashes Episode 4
The Book Interrupted women discuss “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way” by Jesse Thistle, specific stories within the book, and topics of humanity, kindness, struggles, and support systems.
Discussion Points:
- Jesse Thistle’s rise “from the ashes”
- The importance of a support system
- Being willing to accept help
- Writing stories to help with healing
- The poetry in the book
- Relearning how to take care of himself
- Giving humanity to people other people discount
- Small acts of kindness and sharing what you have
- Writing in a diary
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
Alice Munro
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
33 min - From the Ashes Episode 3
The Book Interrupted women share their personal journals while reading “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way” by Jesse Thistle. Afterwards, they continue the discussion and touch on topics of residential schools in Canada, Indigenous history, education and how to stop being part of the problem and be part of the solution.
Discussion Points:
- Personal journals
- Accolades for From The Ashes
- Residential schools and the way Indigenous people are treated in Canada
- Educating ourselves about Indigenous history
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
CBC Canada Reads
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
University Of Alberta Indigenous Canada
40 min - From the Ashes Episode 2
The Book Interrupted women continue their conversation on: “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way” by Jesse Thistle. They talk about examples from the book and delve into topics of writing styles, storytelling and homelessness in the communities where they live.
Discussion Points:
- Good bad binary
- Interconnectedness and empathy
- Jesse Thistle’s writing and storytelling style
- Showing and not telling - letting the reader discover the lesson themselves
- Homelessness, shelters and the loss of home
- Lack of mental health support
- Discrimination when applying to rent a house or apartment
- Learning to speak about difficult topics
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
Nice White Parents
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Nomadland
White Squirrel Brigade
The city with no homeless on its streets, BBC
Built for Zero Canada
48 min - From the Ashes Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women begin their first conversation on their Series 7 book choice: “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way” by Jesse Thistle. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “From the Ashes”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of reconciliation, appropriation, the Indigenous experience, community and interconnectedness, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of Jesse Thistle
Discussion Points:
- Reconciliation and being an ally
- How books can come to you at the right time
- Spirit animals and appropriation
- Community and interconnection
- Responsibility and Rights
- Individualistic versus collective
- We’re all interconnected and related
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
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
IndigenEYEZ
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
37 min - Sapiens Episode 6
Concluding their series on “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari, the women discuss fan responses, preppers, Disney princesses, horror, life insurance, and a whole lot of zombies.
Discussion Points:
- Responses to fan comments on social media
- Lia’s caricatures of the group members
- Shut up statements - “I’m just being honest”
- Goosebumps and Fear Street books
- Zombies and the Zombie Apocalypse
- Preppers and go bags
- Life insurance
- Suicide is a mental health issue
- Disney Princesses
- Long term relationships
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Nonviolent Communication Artwork by Lia Macbean - caricatures of the members
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Goosebumps
Fear Street
The Walking Dead
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
Michael Jackson’s Thriller
Artist Imagines What Would Happen If Disney Princesses Visited A Psychotherapist by Maria Guadarrama
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
26 min - Sapiens Episode 5
Did the women finish reading “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari? They wrap up their discussion on the book and share their final book reports. Topics include: doctor Google, cyborgs, conspiracy theories, critical thinking, journalism, admitting they don’t know everything, and how our search for “likes” and “stars” influence our public behaviour.
Discussion Points:
- Did everyone finish reading Sapiens?
- Fake it until you make it—has the internet taken away our ability to admit we don’t know something?
- Using doctor Google versus relying on experts
- Trusting people who admit they are wrong
- Lack of funding for journalism and how can we find news sources we trust?
- Is critical thinking a good thing?
- Conspiracy theories
- Are scientific studies biased?
- Cyborgs and you
- Searching for “likes” and “stars” and how it influences our behaviour
- Targeted advertisements from our cell phones listening to us
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Black Mirror
The Matrix
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Inside Out by Demi Moore
52 min - Sapiens Episode 4
Happiness is the feature topic of discussion in this episode of Book Interrupted. Continuing the chats on “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari, the women talk about their own search for happiness in their lives and the struggles they’ve had along the way. Peppered in are superheroes, I Dream of Jeannie, the pronunciation of the letter “Z” and whether Kim could be a lizard person in disguise.
Discussion Points:
- The importance of our ancestors
- Happiness does not depend on objective conditions, but rather depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations
- Depression
- Happiness isn’t the destination, it’s the journey
- Finding contentment just with self and being
- Would we recommend the book?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
“A” You’re Adorable by Sharon, Lois & Bram
Back to the Future
Eckhart Tolle
Armchair Expert
I Dream of Jeannie
27 min - Sapiens Episode 3
In this episode of Book Interrupted, the women continue their discussion on “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari and share their personal journals while reading the book. Among other topics, they chat about: the word ‘natural’ and body modifications; the extinction of big animals; gossip and stories; sociopaths; and the transition of power from family and community to the market and state.
Discussion Points:
- Personal journals
- There is no ‘natural’ way of life
- Shut up statements, like “I’m just being honest”, or “it’s natural”
- Body modifications, botox, tattoos, and getting breast implants in honour of your grandparents
- Human rights as a human construct
- The human flood - the extinctions of big animals
- The importance of stories and their ability to slowly change the world
- Local gossip versus fake news
- Sociopaths
- Giving power to the market and states, instead of your family and community
- Individualistic societies
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Jill Bolte Taylor
We Are Lady Parts
43 min - Sapiens Episode 2
The Book Interrupted women discuss “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari, storytelling, keepsakes, empathy, and the separatism between nature and man. Lia finishes the episode and shocks the other members by cutting her Sapiens book in half for ease of carrying and reading.
Discussion Points:
- Our ability to tell stories unifies us: corporations, money, human rights, government
- The collection of data
- Re-reading books
- Good luck charms/keepsakes - do you give power to your personal objects?
- Why we gorge food
- Having empathy for people you haven’t met
- The separatism between nature and man
- Looking at the global community
- Cutting large books in half for ease of transport
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
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
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
30 min - Sapiens Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women begin their first conversation on their Series 6 book choice: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “Sapiens”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of cooperation, tacky gifts, book cutting, collectivism in an individualist culture, and raising children not to be a-holes, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of Yuval Harari.
Discussion Points:
- The writing style/storytelling
- Can you walk and read at the same time?
- Cutting big books in half to make them easier to carry around
- The tackiest gifts ever
- Cooperation amongst large groups of people - how the human race is different than other animals
- Raising children not to be a-holes, teaching them to share
- Community versus individualism - collectivism in an individualist culture
- How every action and behaviour has a ripple effect
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Joe Rogan Experience
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast
Litsy
Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans? | TED Talk
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
46 min
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.