Oblivious Book Review

“Research is seeing what everybody has seen, and think what nobody else has thought”. What is the state of research nowadays? How does this current knowledge creation system works? To answer this, we have the pleasure to have Linnea with us, a Swedish marine biologist. Let’s dive deep for the love of knowledge and be ready to be surprised!

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Get up! Stand up for your rights! It is time to defeat the evil and fight for justice! Today, your hosts introduce you to the secret and bursting world of activism, through the guidance of Aric McBay. We review his book Full spectrum resistance and get ready to shout thoughts! For our rights! For freedom! For a better world, with more Oblivious book review!

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The book we discuss today tells the life story of the author Paul Kalanithi. Paul was a neurosurgeon that got diagnosed with lung cancer. In his memoir he reflects on being both a physician and a patient at the same time, the human experience of facing death, and finding the joy in life despite his terminal illness.   

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Today’s episode we discuss a book that tells the family history of the author - Miranda Richmond. Her family was a part of a community of people that survived the Holocaust during the Second World War. The author embarks on the journey of unraveling her family history regarding the relationship between her grandparents that fell in love with each other before the war, married, bought an old house in South France, and then shortly after the war divorced for unclear reasons and not talked to each other for fifty years. What could possibly be the mysterious reasons for why a couple surviving through war had to break up?

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Today’s episode we continue on the topic of North Korea. We got so intrigued by this topic that we like to know more about the Korean culture, their way of thinking and how the North views the South and vice versa. Therefore, we invited a guest speaker from South Korea, namely Yun Hwan Kim. He gives us an account of his homeland and his experiences on the subjects we discussed during the episode 17. If you have not had the chance to listen previous episode yet, it is time to get your earphones before your join us on the second part of this adventure!  

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Come and hear about the terrible torments that awaits you for the sins you have been committing ;) Today we are focusing on a classic poem book from middle ages, with freshness and modern eye as always. Take a break from your eternal damnation by listening to this 30 minutes of felicity.

Today’s episode is a bit different than usual, we decided to cover a theme around the topic of North Korea. Therefore, we will discuss two books written by Yeonmi Park - in order to live: a North Korean girl’s journey to freedom and Lee Hyeon-seo - The girl with seven names: a North Korean defector’s story. Both books are autobiographies and tells the stories of the authors’ lives in North Korea, how they grew up under an authoritarian regime, how they escaped from North Korea and their journey to South Korea in order to live their lives in ‘freedom’. Along the way they encounter life threatening situations such as: fall in the hands of human traffickers, being sold as slaves, kidnapped and held hostage under dire circumstance. Certainly, these topics are not easy to digest, nevertheless, we hope you appreciate this episode and give a better idea what is going on in North Korea.   

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Today's episode is a very exciting one since we discuss the book - My father never walked on water - and the author that wrote the book was the guest speaker of our show, namely D’amour Nordkvist. The book tells the author’s life story of growing up in Rwanda, going abroad for studies in China, and finally settling down in Sweden to raise a family. In between a lots of other life events happened, which will be discussed during this episode, such as: the faith in religion, culture shocks and pursue your dreams. Come and travel with us 😊

And if you got intrested in reading D'amour's book, here is a link to it :

https://www.smakprov.se/bok/kartonnage/my-father-never-walked-on-water-an-exceptional-story-about-an-exceptional-man-9789198538908/

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This episode gives a short explanation about the reasons why we doing this podcast. We discuss what is our purpose and the aim with it? And who inspired us to start recording our conversations about the books we read? And what does the peculiar title actually mean? These and other questions are discussed in this episode.

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