From the Ashes Episode 6

Concluding their series on “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way” by Jesse Thistle, the women discuss fan responses, cruises, Covid dreams, swag, the greed disease, language, and bare feet.

Discussion Points:

• Nomination for the Podcast Awards
• Comments from fans
• Cruises - would you go on one now since the pandemic?
• Covid dreams and Covid test requirements
• Feedback from Jesse Thistle
• Inviting authors on the show
• Book Interrupted swag
• Apply to be a fan and choose a book for next season’s fan choice!
• Buying, consuming and the greed disease
• Trying to use language to describe a deeper meaning
• How many books do you read at the same time?
• Is life better in bare feet?

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

Seeing Red: The One Book Every Woman Needs to Read. Period. by Kirsten Karchmer

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Lia’s artwork for From the Ashes

Down the Rabbit Hole

Indigenous Resilience: Healing Trauma Through Tradition and Resistance

The Wisdom of Trauma

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist

University of Alberta Indigenous Canada

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi 

How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein 

Choose a book for next year’s season and be a fan on the podcast!