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Books and BitesPage-Turning Travels: Books and Bites Podcast, Ep. 54Book NotesAdam RecommendsFlamer by Mike CuratoEver After by Olivia ViewegMichael RecommendsThe Troop by Nick CutterThe Night Will Find Us by Matthew LyonsCarrie RecommendsThe Wangs vs. the World by Jade ChangProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev BalasubramanyamBite NotesTasty Campfire Apples in Tinfoil contain the best parts of a flame. Find the recipe in Camp Cooking by the National Museum of Forest Service History.Next time you're in the backyard around a campfire, enjoy a twist on an all-time favorite, a...2021-06-0724 min

Blissful ThinkingVimalasara Mason-John - "Life is to be of Service"This week's guest is Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John, an award winning author of 9 books, including her most timely book published this year I'm Still Your Negro, An Homage to James Baldwin. She is the co-founder of the accredited program Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery MBAR and of Eight Step Recovery, an alternative and addition to the 12 step recovery meetings. She is one of the leading African Descent voices in the field of mindfulness approaches for addiction. Ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Community, she is a senior teacher in her lineage, and works as a lead facilitator and practitioner in the fie...2020-08-161h 26

Blissful ThinkingMita Mistry - "Life is a Gift"My guest this week is Mita Mistry, a writer, mindfulness-based cognitive therapist, and acupuncturist based in the UK. Mita is an incredibly sensitive and empathic person, and in this episode she introduces us to the world of five elements acupuncture in the Taoist tradition, along with many other subjects including narcissism, codependence, and abuse south Asian families. Her website is below, and you can also find her articles at https://muckrack.com/mita-mistry/articles. She tweets @mitamistry . https://www.mitamistry.co.uk/2020-08-011h 35

Blissful ThinkingKevin Martin - "Life is Interconnection"My guest this week is my friend Kevin Martin. He is a native of the Bay Area and a practitioner of vipassana and, more recently, a student in the Dharmacharya Program under the teachings of Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni and Venerable Pannidipa Bhikkhu. Kevin is a Dharma Community teacher at Insight Richmond and currently serves as a Restorative Justice Facilitator with at the Contra Costa County - Criminal Diversion Program in the Northern California, Bay Area. Kevin's take on the world is always original, and he has those essential qualities for the path: curiosity, honesty, humour, warmth, and humility. I've on...2020-07-181h 38

Blissful ThinkingKadija George - "Life is Living Your Best Life"This episode features Kadija George! She's a legendary figure in the Black British literary world, one of the truest pioneers. Kadija writes under the name Kadija Sesay, and is an literary activist, poet, short-story writer and publisher of Sable LitMag, which is on hiatus but will be back. Kadija's achievements are huge. She has helped so many writers, soooo many, and has been rewarded with the Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement, Candace Woman of Achievement, the Voice Community Award in Literature and the Millennium Woman of the Year. She deserves all this and more. In 2015 her cousin Sheku...2020-07-041h 34

Blissful ThinkingBlissful Thinking #13: Dean Dorsett - "Life is about Getting Better at Being More Loving"Dean Dorsett is my oldest friend! He was my companion, confidante, and comrade-in-arms during my 3 years at Oriel College, Oxford, very much in the news now due to the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. In this episode we try to understand what Oxford was, its intellectual culture, the racism we both encountered and were hurt by, and Dean explains his initial transition from being a Jehovah's Witness in Dominica to a medical student at one of the most right-wing institutions in Britain. He ends by explaining how his experience as a doctor in Ipswich, during the Covid pandemic, aligns perfectly...2020-06-261h 29

Blissful ThinkingThomas Davis - "Life is a Process of Discovering Who You Are"This week's episode is with my friend, the dharma teacher Thomas Davis. Thomas was a lay minister in the church for over 10 years before crossing over to Theravada Buddhism. He graduated from the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training Program, and after co-founding the the Insight Richmond Meditation Group, moved to Los Angeles where he now teaches at Insight LA. Thomas combines warmth, calm, and love with acute political insight and has one of the best laughs of anyone I know. I love him dearly, and I'm sure you will too. https://insightla.org/teacher/thomas-davis-2/ 2020-06-191h 38

Blissful ThinkingGuilaine Kinouani: "A Good Life is Feeling Connected to the World and a Sense of Greater Good"This week's episode is with radical psychologist, feminist and psychotherapist Guilaine Kinouani, an expert on the impact of racism on the mental health of people of colour, particularly the African diaspora in Europe. We had an extraordinary conversation in which I learned so much about how racism works in the minds of both white people and people of colour, and how to understand this current moment from a psychological perspective. Visit her website https://racereflections.co.uk/ to learn more about her work and do follow her on twitter at https://racereflections.co.uk/ . Her work is...2020-06-121h 01

Blissful ThinkingJJ Bola - "Life is Energy"This week's episode is with poet, novelist, and writer on masculinity, JJ Bola. We speak about traditional African spirituality and the importance of communicating with ancestors in revolutionary movements, as well as imperialist attempts to suppress such practice, and we speak about today's situation in the United States and how it is as much a spiritual struggle as a material one. https://www.pontas-agency.com/jj-bola/ https://www.jjbola.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/02/manhood-mental-health-masculinity Twitter/Instagram: @JJ_Bola 2020-06-051h 08

Blissful ThinkingRoger Robinson - "I Don't Need to Define What Life Is"Roger Robinson is a poet and vocalist for the musical crossover project King Midas Sound. I've known him for 20 years as one of the biggest-hearted, most generous writers around. This year, everything has gone his way, in terms of success, so I wanted to ask him how he has remained grounded, what his secret is. Here he explains, stressing the importance of doing the right thing, being true to your inner voice. https://rogerrobinsononline.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/ts-eliot-prize-winner-roger-robinson https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/02/a-portable-paradise-roger-robinson-poem-of-month https://www.p...2020-05-3057 min

Blissful ThinkingMauricio Barriga - "Life is Just What It Is"This week's episode is with my dear friend Mauricio Barriga, a schoolteacher originally from Mexico, now living in Santa Ana in Orange County. Mauricio and I met at Deer Park Monastery, CA, which is where he learnt his practice of meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and here he explains the essence of this practice and how it transformed his life. Simple, honest, authentic and beautiful, Mauricio is the living embodiment of the teachings of the Buddha. 2020-05-2343 min

Blissful ThinkingAyesha Manazir Siddiqi - "Life is a Preparation for Death"This week's episode is with writer, editor and translator Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. It's wide-ranging! We talk about Islam, spirits, tarot, ayahuasca, vipassana, and mostly about life's purpose, and social justice, and the necessity of speaking out, and why. Is it possible for one person to be happy and at peace when others are suffering? And why are we here, and who will we be when we die? 2020-05-151h 25

Blissful ThinkingGiorgia Alexander - "Life is the Neverending Pursuit of Unconditional Love"This week's episode is with the extraordinarily insightful poet, storyteller, healer, clairvoyant, tarot reader, and psychic, Giorgia Alexander. This is a deep, sensitive, and most of all wise exploration of some of the key issues that face us all: trauma and how to heal from it, narcissism, sociopathy, and, last of all, how to develop our psychic powers. Giorgia's linktree: https://linktr.ee/giorgiaalexander 2020-05-081h 21

Blissful ThinkingMultu Ergün - "Life is in Our Invisible Relationships"This week's episode is with former rapper and novelist Mutlu Ergün who is currently an anti-racist trainer, travelling across Germany. Usually with his brother, he runs People of Colour empowerment workshops, and anti-racist trainings for white people, in which he aims to gently, lovingly, separate white Germans from their whiteness, making them aware of their own racisms. It's a spiritual approach to racism that we very rarely hear, and Multu is an expert. Links below are to the Phoenix, the anti-racist organisation Multu works for, and to his novel: https://www.phoenix-ev.org...2020-05-011h 14

Blissful ThinkingLife is UnderstandingWelcome to our third interview with the truly inspirational Rikki Beadle-Blair who explains the importance of self-love, positivity and gratitude and how to get there. There's nothing preachy or bogus about this man. He lives this. And right now we need people like him more than ever. We need to be inspired and this interview is the definition of inspirational. Follow him on twitter @RikkiBB or instagram @rikkibeadleblair or on facebook https://www.facebook.com/rikki.beadleblair and listen, enjoy, and be uplifted! 2020-04-251h 21

Blissful ThinkingNayomi Munaweera: "Life is This Moment"The award-winning novelist Nayomi Munaweera talks with us abut childhood trauma, abuse and her "spiritual toolbox" of vipassana meditation, therapy, twelve-step, and ayahuasca. Her advice to us all at this time is to be soft with ourselves, and to remember that this moment is all we have. https://us.macmillan.com/author/nayomimunaweera/ https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index 2020-04-181h 15

Blissful ThinkingFannie-Lee Lowe: "Life is a Magical Mystery Tour"The first interview! And it's with my dear, wise, loving 82-year-old friend from San Francisco, Fannie-Lee. Here she talks about death, about pain, and love, and gives beautiful gentle advice to us all about how to survive this mysterious wonderful thing called life. This one is about everything, and ALL about love. 2020-04-091h 04

Blissful ThinkingAn Introduction with Rajeev BalasubramanyamWelcome to the Blissful Thinking podcast! In this first I episode, I, Rajeev Balasubramanyam, tell the story of how I came to spiritual practice. I talk about the need for people of colour to share pain and trauma, and ways of healing, and I offer suggestions on how to live life under lockdown with greater awareness. Don't forget to subscribe! And you can buy my novel here: amzn.to/38QXXWD Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com And below, some meditation resources: https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness-practice/mindful-apps/ https://b...2020-04-0433 min

Nicole BoniaThis Summer's Literary FictionGayle and Nicole are drowning in enticing literary fiction books this summer. On this episode, we delve wistfully into our literary fiction TBRs and lament how little time we have to read all of the books we want to read. WARNING: your TBR may balloon after listening to this episode.Books mentioned in this episode:Kitchens Of The Great Midwest by J. Ryan StradalThe Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan StradalEverything Is Just Fine by Brett PaeselFleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-AknerThe Year Of The Runaways...2019-07-1856 min

The Brit Lit PodcastProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss, with Rajeev BalusabranyamOur guest today is Rajeev Balusabranyam. Rajeev is the author of the novel Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss, which came out earlier this year. He’s also very accomplished, with a few literary awards and nominations under his belt and degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge. He talks about his meditation practice, why he loves California, and what it was about the academic world that he wanted to explore in his novel. Books Mentioned on the Podcast: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss, by Rajeev Balasubramanyam Island of a Thousand Mirrors, by Nayomi Munaweera...2019-05-3019 min

Nicole BoniaThe March Book Madness Finale & Gayle's Stressful Vacation ReadsGayle is back from Florida and picked an appropriate mix of stressful reads for a sunny beach vacation. Find out what’s stressing her out so much. They also catch up on what Nicole has been reading, share a few new early April releases and crown the winner of the March Book Madness bracket challenge.Books mentioned in this podcast:Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeAmerican Marriage by Tayari JonesAdele by Leila SlimaniThe Perfect Nanny by Leila SlimaniGolden Child by...2019-04-0447 min

Full Audiobook That Come to Life, AnywhereProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel Audiobook by Rajeev BalasubramanyamListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 343597 Title: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel Author: Rajeev Balasubramanyam Narrator: Ramon Tikaram Format: Unabridged Length: 10:03:00 Language: English Release date: 03-26-19 Publisher: Random House (Audio) Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life Summary: Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times...2019-03-2610h 03

All the Books!E201: 201: New Releases and More for March 26, 2019This week, Liberty and Katie discuss My Lovely Wife, Good Talk, Dig, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton, published by Graydon House Books, and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, publishers of The Handmaid's Tale graphic novel. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing Unbecoming: A Memoir of Diso...2019-03-2642 min

Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel by Rajeev BalasubramanyamPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel Author: Rajeev Balasubramanyam Narrator: Ramon Tikaram Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettig...2019-03-2605 min

Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel by Rajeev BalasubramanyamPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel Author: Rajeev Balasubramanyam Narrator: Ramon Tikaram Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major...2019-03-2605 min

The Soundtrack to Your Imagination with Free AudiobookProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss Audiobook by Rajeev BalasubramanyamListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 346325 Title: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Author: Rajeev Balasubramanyam Narrator: Ramon Tikaram Format: Unabridged Length: 10:02:38 Language: English Release date: 01-10-19 Publisher: Penguin Books LTD Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam, read by Ramon Tikaram. Theres no problem Professor Chandra cant solve. Except for one: the secret to happiness In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesnt see his life flash before his eyes, but his lifes work. Hes just...2019-01-1010h 02

Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaProfessor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev BalasubramanyamPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Author: Rajeev Balasubramanyam Narrator: Ramon Tikaram Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam, read by Ramon Tikaram. There’s no problem Professor Chandra can’t solve. Except for one: the secret to happiness In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes, but his life’s work. He’s just nar...2019-01-1001 min

The Brit Lit Podcast34: Shake it Up a Bit, with Ben from the Bookshop BandOur guest today is Ben from the Bookshop Band. The Bookshop Band started in 2010 and write songs inspired by – you’ve guessed it – books. They’re about to embark on their first tour of the US, so if you’re based in or around New York, New Mexico, or Colorado, you’ll have a chance to catch Ben and Beth at one of several locations between now and the first week of February. I spoke to Ben about their upcoming tour, how they started out, their songwriting process, and more. Books Mentioned on the Podcast: The Paris Wife...2019-01-1036 min

VINTAGE BOOKSArt, but Happy ᛫ Rajeev BalasubramanyamFollow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterMusic is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.2019-01-0622 min