Book Nomad: Reading the World

On this journey, I explore

• Do we give an author another try if we don't like a book?
• Complex characters redeem themselves.
• How does a connection with nature affect our daily lives?

Book in focus: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (UK). Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com

On this journey, I'm joined by Assia and Aeesha as we explore

• Connecting with books from backgrounds different to our own,
• Silence speaks,
• "Where are you really from?"

Book in focus: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria). Follow Assia on Instagram and Twitter: @shereadsox. Follow Aeesha on Instagram @thatothernigeriangirl and Twitter @allthingsaeesha. Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com

On this journey, I explore:

• Faith and parents - what's the relationship?
• How not to respect women.
• Novels in verse.

Book in focus: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (USA). (Please excuse the background noise at the beginning - that's an experiment I won't be repeating! Keep listening though; it doesn't last for long.) Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com

On this journey I'm joined by Ameen from Mind Heist podcast as we discuss:

• Purpose in autobiographies.
• How sincerity and self-reflection can transform a book.
• When living life is expecting death.
• And so much more - this book just keeps giving!

Book in focus: The Autobiography of Malcolm X as narrated to Alex Haley (USA). Find Ameen and Mind Heist podcast on Instagram: @mindheistpod To listen to the podcast, search "Mind Heist" on your podcast app. Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com

In this first of the new theme-based episodes, Assia and I explore reading books from countries we know little about!

• Discovering connections across the world.
• "A book is not holier than a tweet." © 2019 Assia
• Reading what we know is more comfortable.

Follow Assia on Instagram and Twitter: @shereadsox.

Books mentioned Amina's picks Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov To read: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Assia's picks Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa When We Were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh Born a Crime by Trevor Noah To read: The Weight of our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Other books mentioned The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee At the Cafe (Eng. trans. of Au Café) by Mohammed Dib Une Si Longue Lettre by Mariama Bâ Anumpa Warrior by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com

On this journey:

• Appreciating insight into writers' inspiration.
• People from different backgrounds see relationships differently.
• Evoking a strong sense of place and emotion through the small details.

Book in focus: Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela (Sudan/UK). Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram and Facebook: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com

On this journey I'm joined by Safiya:

• Do we read certain book genres more critically than others?
• Workplace struggles: a Muslim experience.
• When a character's transformation makes us go "hmm..."!

Book in focus: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (Canada). Find Safiya on Instagram and Twitter: @jscherfi Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram and Facebook: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomad.weebly.com

On this journey I'm joined by Sofina:

• Exploring Malaysia's ethnic landscape,
• Effectively tackling mental disorders in literature,
• Navigating sensitive historical events.

Book in focus: The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf (Malaysia). Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomad.weebly.com

On this journey I'm joined by Sina:

• Reading habits in Ramadan,
• Learning from opposing opinions of a book,
• How age affects the way we perceive the world around us.

Books in focus: Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France), The Alchemist (O Alquimista) by Paulo Coelho (Brazil). Follow Sina on Instagram: @sharediversity. Shared Diversity website: www.sharediversity.com Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomad.weebly.com

On this journey:

• Why read children's books?
• Representing diversity within minority communities.
• Seeing yourself in a book changes everything.

Book in focus: A Hen in the Wardrobe by Wendy Meddour (Algeria/UK).

Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - on Twitter: @booknomadpod - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomad.weebly.com