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.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Book Interrupted women begin their first conversation on their Series 5 book choice: “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “Nonviolent Communication”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of feelings, needs, conflict and personal narrative, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of Marshall B. Rosenberg. Discussion Points: Figuring out your feelings and needs How to listen How can people-pleasers balance their own needs with the want for peace? The role personal narrative can play in our reactions to situations The four components of NVC: observations, feelings, needs and requests How can conflict hinder communication? 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 Your Parenting Mojo The Enneagram Institute ...
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 Album Framing Britney Spears Britney vs. Spears - Netflix P!nk: All I Know So Far - Amazon The Handmaid’s Tale ...
The Book Interrupted women share their personal journals while reading “What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World” by Jon Young. They continued on to the group discussion, exploring whether energy and emotions are contagious across species, birds calls, pet versus city versus country birds, if they liked reading the book, and much more. Discussion Points: Personal journals How did the members like reading the book? Individual types of birds and their calls - can you distinguish them? From Collision to Connection chapter Energy and emotions are contagious - can the birds sense your emotions? Pet birds City park birds versus country birds Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted: Book Interrupted Website Book Interrupted YouTube Channel Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young Bird Language Audio Library Jon Young Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell ...
