Book Club Meets: Fate, mortality, and psychics, with Liane Moriarty
About this episode
<p>Is your fate already pre-determined? Or do you feel you have true free will to dictate your own destiny? ...and if you could, would you want to find out when you’re going to die? These are the questions Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment grapples with.</p><p> </p><p>Here One Moment was our Happy Place Book Club read for November, and Liane joins Fearne to chat about why she wanted to explore chaos, chance, mortality, and psychic abilities in this novel.</p><p> </p><p>Fearne and Liane talk about the importance of having ‘main character energy’ in your own life, while also acknowledging that others are living their own fully formed lives too.</p><p> </p><p>Plus, how good are you at expressing yourself creatively without worrying how your efforts will be received? They talk through how to find intrinsic motivation for creative pursuits rather than relying on external praise...</p><br><p>Thank you to Penguin Audio for the use of Here One Moment audiobook, narrated by Caroline Lee.</p><br><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/27b9a0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to Book Club Meets: Miranda July </a></p><br><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/26738b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to Book Club Meets: Gillian Anderson</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/23da85" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to Book Club Meets: Patric Gagne</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/266632" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to Book Club Meets: Holly Gramazio</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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