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Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s finally had time to read again, Emma’s accidentally read three fairytale retellings and intentionally read a bunch of queer books, and we both have rather hefty hauls!
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
Follow Nina on StoryGraph
ninaevan
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and chats
00:09:12 The Gilded Mirror
00:14:43 Crystal Clear
00:21:30 Everything Under the Moon
00:23:47 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
00:24:37 The Hobbit
00:27:20 Private Rites
00:29:23 Ash
00:33:37 The Gender Games
00:36:46 Crossings
00:40:35 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date
00:42:16 Some Desperate Glory
00:48:14 Dear Diseased Body
00:49:53 Esio Trot
00:55:59 Of Jade and Dragons
01:00:51 Ulysses
01:03:28 Wicked
01:03:49 Musical theatre tangent
01:06:12 This Time Tomorow
01:08:52 The World at Her Fingertips
01:09:28 Jade War
01:09:52 Nina’s Haul
01:17:56 Emma’s Haul
01:21:07 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Gilded Mirror – KE Barden
A Court of Throne and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
Beauty and the Beast – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Crystal Clear – Lou Nova
The Green Bone Saga – Fonda Lee
Everything Under the Moon – Michael Earp
Homesick for Another World – Ottessa Moshfegh
Salt Slow – Julia Armfield
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
Lost Kingdom – Laurel Black
Private Rites – Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
Ash – Malinda Lo
The Gender Games – Juno Dawson
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – Juno Dawson
Crossings – Alex Landragin
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date – Ashley Herring Blake
Bright Falls trilogy – Ashley Herring Blake
Some Desperate Glory – Emily Tesh
Dear Diseased Body – Cara Morgan
Esio Trot – Roald Dahl
Of Jade and Dragons – Amber Chen
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Emperor’s New Clothes – Hans Christian Andersen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
Landline – Rainbow Rowell
The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller – Joan Dash
Jade War – Fonda Lee
Holding Up the Universe – Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Midnight Rooms – Donyae Coles
A Magical Girl Retires – Park Seolyeon trans. Anton Hur
Toward Eternity – Anton Hur
Their Divine Fires – Wendy Chen
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
The House of Hidden Meanings – RuPaul
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts – Louis Bayard
Briefly Perfect Human: Making and Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End – Alua Arthur
The Woman Destroyed – Simone de Beauvoir
The Last Sane Woman – Hannah Regel
The It Girl – Ruth Ware
Black River – Matthew Spencer
Creative Differences and Other Stories – Graeme Simsion
The Stranger – Kathryn Hore
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Mythos – Jaysen Headley
Mongrel – Hanako Footman
A Curious Beginning – Deanna Raybourn
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Also mentioned:
Donate and support Emma in the readathon to raise money for literacy in Cambodia: https://chaptersforchange.org/emma-grey
Cara Morgan’s chapbook: https://bottlecap.press/products/diseased
Cara Morgan can be found on Instagram @caramorganpoet and here is their link tree: https://linktr.ee/CaraLikeCarrot
Ekman’s Universal Emotions (turns out there’s seven now!) https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions
Abdi Nazemian https://www.abdinazemian.com/
Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04?si=rVFt-Z3GLu7YJYj7
Book Roast https://youtube.com/@BookRoast
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
@salboreads on Instagram
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/j-YepeqhKUY?si=__7DPPoVuq1Yzhwz
Jaysen Headley - @ezeekat on all socials -
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Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, we interview KE Barden, author of YA fantasy novel The Gilded Mirror, the first book in the Finding Ever After series.
Kim can be found on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook @kebardenauthor
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
Follow Nina on StoryGraph
ninaevan
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and The Gilded Mirror blurb
00:01:51 Interview - completely spoiler free
00:31:33 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
** The Gilded Mirror – KE Barden **
The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersens
Cinderella – Charles Perrault
Snow White – the Brothers Grimm
Jack and the Beanstalk – Joseph Jacobs
Hansel & Gretel – the Brothers Grimm
Rapunzel – the Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin – the Brothers Grimm
The Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
The Elves and the Shoemaker – the Brothers Grimm
Reimagined Fairy Tales series – Megan Van Dyke
The Lunar Chronicles – Marissa Meyer
These Grimm Fates – KE Barden
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Throne of Glass series – Sarah J. Maas
Kingdom of Ash – Sarah J. Maas
Letters of Enchantment duology – Rebecca Ross
Songbird of the Sorrows – Braidee Otto
The Remnant Chronicles – Mary E. Pearson
The Bridge Kingdom series – Danielle L. Jensen
Crown of Midnight – Sarah J. Maas
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Also mentioned:
Kim can be found on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook @kebardenauthor
Donate and support Emma in the readathon to raise money for literacy in Cambodia: https://chaptersforchange.org/emma-grey
Once Upon a Time https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843230/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Aladdin https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103639/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
The Little Mermaid https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
The Lion King https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Into the Woods https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180411/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Kindle Direct Publishing https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
Ingram Spark https://www.ingramspark.com/
Raven Kennedy https://www.ravenkennedybooks.com/
Carissa Broadbent https://carissabroadbentbooks.com/
Etheric Tales https://etherictales.com/
Peter Pan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s hit a reading slump, Emma has read more than ever, and we talk about Nina’s publishing intensive course.
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
Follow Nina on StoryGraph
ninaevan
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat
00:08:07 Nightbirds
00:10:02 Good Girl, Bad Blood
00:11:26 Soldier Sailor
00:12:53 We Shall Be Monsters
00:14:59 Undiscovered
00:17:25 The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
00:18:41 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
00:21:30 Thunderclap
00:25:00 Birnam Wood
00:27:43 Nina reflects on her reading slump
00:28:35 The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women
00:31:52 The Beginning of Everything
00:34:52 Piranesi
00:36:02 Terra Nullius
00:37:35 How High We Go in the Dark
00:39:13 The Keeper
00:41:56 The Time Machine
00:44:54 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
00:46:59 Delilah Green Doesn’t Care & Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail
00:48:57 Nina’s Currently Reading: The Hobbit
00:57:27 Nina’s Haul
01:03:06 Cover design/career tangent
01:06:47 Emma’s Haul
01:11:45 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Nightbirds – Kate J. Armstrong
Good Girl, Bad Blood – Holly Jackson
Soldier Sailor – Claire Kilroy
Brotherless Night – V.V. Ganeshananthan (Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner 2024)
We Shall Be Monsters – Tara Sim
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Undiscovered – Gabriela Wiener
Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck (Booker International Prize Winner 2024)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife – Meg Elison
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Ulysses – James Joyce
Thunderclap – Laura Cumming
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World – Naomi Klein (Women’s Prize for Non-fiction Winner 2024)
Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton
The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women – Estelle Rose
Empowered Women with ADHD – Estelle Rose
The Beginning of Everything – Robyn Schneider
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Terra Nullius – Claire G. Coleman
How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Keeper (The Current of Her Eye: Book One) – JJ Carpenter
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care – Ashley Herring Blake
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail – Ashley Herring Blake
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings series – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
The Wildest Sun – Asha Lemmie
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
The Reappearance of Rachel Price – Holly Jackson
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy – Holly Jackson
The Survivors – Jane Harper
Exiles – Jane Harper
The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham – H.G. Wells
Dubliners – James Joyce
Bright Falls trilogy – Ashley Herring Blake
Parade – Rachel Cusk
How to Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin
Night of the Living Dummy – R.L. Stine
Deep Trouble – R.L. Stine
Monster Blood – R.L. Stine
R.E.Generation – Michael J. Prewer
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Also mentioned:
Donate and support Emma in the readathon: https://chaptersforchange.org/emma-grey
Fantasy Fellowship https://fantasy-fellowship.co.uk/
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Ulysses listen along https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/post/ulysses-listen-along-16th-june-bloomsday-25th-july-2024
Emma’s Birnam Wood review https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Ny4vtyzGY/?igsh=MW52bmt0NWpzc2d0NA==
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
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Snippets of Women’s Prize announcements from PA Media video: https://youtu.be/wCBKcnAVVtk?si=2oR8r4Yv_6y3HdHO -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s finishing school, Emma’s joined more book clubs and readathons, and we so the Totally Should’ve Book Tag!
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
Follow Nina on StoryGraph
ninaevan
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat
00:06:05 Mockingjay
00:12:01 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
00:13:25 The Invocations
00:13:58 River East, River West
00:15:48 Villette
00:20:52 Learning Humility
00:24:43 Crossings
00:32:41 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
00:33:10 Nightbirds
00:37:19 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
00:42:15 Haul/TBR
00:49:51 Totally Should’ve Book Tag
01:28:44 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster – Mirinae Lee
The Invocations – Krystal Sutherland
River East, River West – Aubrey Rey Lescure
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue – Richard J. Foster
Crossings – Alex Landragin
Cain’s Jawbone – E. Powys Mathers
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Nightbirds – Kate J. Armstrong
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents – Lindsay C. Gibson
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Shadow Falls – Wendy Dranfield
Where Lost Girls Go – B.R. Spangler
Seven Sins – Miguel Estrada
Bad to the Bones – James Harper
The Little Grave – Carolyn Arnold
Ties That Bind – Carolyn Arnold
She and Her Cat – Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa
It’s Not About Me – Sally Hetherington
House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride – Roshani Chokshi
If I Have To Be Haunted – Miranda Sun
Feed – M.T. Anderson
Munmun – Jesse Andrews
Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl – Jesse Andrews
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins
The Carls series – Hank Green
The Bandit Queens – Parini Shroff
Shadow and Bone trilogy – Leigh Bardugo
Broken Things – Lauren Oliver
Mindwalker – Kate Dylan
Heartstopper – Alice Osemam
Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
Game of Thrones series – George R.R. Martin
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
The Winner’s Curse series – Marie Rutkoski
The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Light from Uncommon Stars – Ryka Aoki
Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
Divergent – Veronica Roth
Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
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Also mentioned:
Orilium Magical Readathon https://youtu.be/CtBWB6ATEdQ
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Chapters for Change:
@chaptersforchange on Instagram
https://chaptersforchange.org
Donate and support Emma in the readathon: https://chaptersforchange.org/emma-grey
Emma’s special editions reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6G60ezyUpM/?igsh=MWczcWloYWNjbTlnNQ==
Source video for Totally Should’ve Book Tag: https://youtu.be/hij7lxWcBAY?si=-UqmKLM8pBF7ymss -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this 50TH EPISODE(!!), Nina’s been travelling again, Emma’s obtained a ridiculous number of books, and we find out how well we really know each other 🤔
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
Follow Nina on StoryGraph
ninaevan
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat
00:08:33 Glass Sword
00:09:36 The Poppy War
00:18:23 Old Masters: A Comedy (dnf)
00:21:00 Enter Ghost
00:21:24 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
00:24:52 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
00:25:19 Once There Were Wolves
00:26:42 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
00:27:25 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
00:29:14 What I’d Rather Not Think About
00:35:27 Crossings
00:39:15 Everything I Know About Love
00:40:18 We Shall Be Monsters
00:42:04 Villette
00:43:23 Mockingjay
00:44:57 Haul/TBR
00:59:53 How Well Do We Know Each Other?
01:28:44 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Glass Sword (Red Queen series) - Victoria Aveyard
The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang
Old Masters: A Comedy - Thomas Bernhard
Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki, ill. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
What I’d Rather Not Think About - Jente Posthuma
Crossings - Alex Landragin
Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton
We Shall Be Monsters - Tara Sim
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
The Lusiads - Luís de Camões
Map for Crying Travellers (zine) - Joana Estrela
Grapefruits (zine) - originating from students of the master programme Klang und Realität at the Institute for Music and Media at the RSH Düsseldorf
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
The Cat Who Saved Books - Sōsuke Natsukawa
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Lola in the Mirror - Trent Dalton
What You Are Looking For is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel - Mariah Marsden, ill. Brenna Thummler
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet - Bernie Su & Kate Rorick
The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet - Kate Rorick & Rachel Kiley
Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis - Vanessa Nakate
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
American Supernatural Tales - ed. S.T. Joshi
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories - Ray Russell
The Raven: Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Down the Drain - Julia Fox
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Also mentioned:
Nina’s StoryGraph profile: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ninaevan
Emma’s Mockingjay post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ARR8fyca5/?igsh=eXFlMzBna2hicXhp
Emma’s Penguin Horror Collection post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C57mJVnr7kQ/?igsh=aHY0MW94dTBoeHE5
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04?
Orilium Magical Readathon https://youtu.be/CtBWB6ATEdQ
Livraria Lello https://www.livrarialello.pt/
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Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012
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Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s gone off the rails, Emma’s stayed firmly on them, and we’ve got a whole bunch of books to catch up on!
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat
00:06:33 Lost Kingdom
00:08:26 Bliss and Other Stories
00:10:15 Any Human Heart
00:13:18 Unusual Stories from Many Lands
00:16:33 There is No Dog
00:19:14 Normal People
00:25:34 Ramayana
00:33:28 Myths of Mesopotamia
00:38:58 Mindwalker
00:41:34 Light from Uncommon Stars
00:47:21 Learning Humility
00:58:17 John Keats poetry
01:00:37 First Lie Wins
01:03:19 Evolve Your Brain
01:12:04 Born a Crime
01:16:27 Everything I Know About Love
01:17:51 Jade City
01:21:05 Red Queen / Glass Sword
01:28:41 The Wren, the Wren
01:30:47 Crossings
01:34:43 Cain’s Jawbone
01:37:30 The Bluest Eye
01:40:56 The Remains of the Day
01:42:53 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
01:43:50 Enter Ghost
01:45:21 Haul/TBR
01:49:46 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black
Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
Unusual Stories from Many Lands - Arlo T. Janssen
There is No Dog - Meg Rosoff
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Ramayana - Vālmīki
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Anon trans. Stephanie Dalley
Mindwalker - Kate Dylan
Mindbreaker - Kate Dylan
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia
Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue - Richard J. Foster
The Cloud of Unknowing - Anon
Selected Poetry - John Keats
First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind - Joe Dispenza
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton
Jade City / The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
The Selection - Kiera Cass
Glass Sword - Victoria Aveyard
The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright
Crossings - Alex Landragin
Cain’s Jawbone - Torquemada & E. Powys
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
Letter to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson
On Love: Lysis/Symposium/Phaedrus/Alcibiades/Selections from Republic & Laws - Plato ed. C.D.C. Reeve
Il sole e la cometa - Sergio Bambarén
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko
Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy - Diana Wynne Jones
A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
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Also mentioned:
John Keats poetry post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C362QlKrz_e/?igsh=MWFmNjUxdHBqYml4Yw==
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Juliet Stevenson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson
Darren Boyd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Boyd
Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04?si=rVFt-Z3GLu7YJYj7
Dominic West https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_West -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, we interview Laurel Black, debut author of YA fantasy novel Lost Kingdom.
Laurel can be found online at www.laurelblackbooks.com or on Instagram @laurelblackbooks
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Lost Kingdom blurb
02:58 Spoiler-free questions
31:02 Spoiler questions
56:31 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
** Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black **
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Remnant Chronicles - Mary E. Pearson
The Shadow Between Us - Tricia Levenseller
The Winner’s Curse - Marie Rutkoski
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Also mentioned:
Laurel can be found online at www.laurelblackbooks.com or on Instagram @laurelblackbooks
Lost Kingdom book trailer https://youtu.be/oP7smPjUC2Q?si=vAPaejct77gQa34i -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s having a non-fiction moment, Emma’s had some serious ups and downs in reading, and we have a secret project to tell you all about!
Send us an email! [email protected]
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Chats
12:54 Recent Reads
13:07 Masters of Death
19:45 Wild Swans
23:13 Down the Drain
38:12 Great Expectations
43:30 The Railway
54:34 Atomic Habits
59:07 Currently Reading
59:11 Bliss and Other Stories
01:01:31 Lost Kingdom
01:10:06 Haul/TBR
01:12:14 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Odyssey - Homer
The Iliad - Homer
The Ramayana - R.K. Narayan
Mahabharata - C. Rajagopalachari
Inferno - Dante Alighieri
Masters of Death - Olivie Blake
Atlas Six - Olivie Blake
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Down the Drain - Julia Fox
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Railway - Hamid Ismailov
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black
The Shepherd King duology - Rachel Gillig
Selected Poetry - John Keats
Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan: A Journey of Hope - Nazila Sawhney
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Also mentioned:
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Jack Edwards https://youtube.com/@jack_edwards
Anton Lesser https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504320/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Juliet Stevenson https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828980/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this special episode, we go through our 2023 stats, our worst and best books of 2023, review our 2023 goals, and set our 2024 goals.
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Overall stats (books/pages/hours)
20:25 Book length stats
24:10 Other book attribute stats
41:22 Book community stats
50:42 StoryGraph Plus stats
56:36 Worst Books of 2023
01:04:46 Best Books of 2023
01:19:04 2023 goal review
01:26:07 2024 goals
01:38:20 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Lore Olympus series - Rachel Smythe
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami - Akiko Yosano
Dune - Frank Herbert
Little Men & Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott
On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson
Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong
Astral Season Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The King’s Speech - Mark Logue
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
Educated - Tara Westover
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Sheets trilogy - Brenna Thummler
I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai
I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Exiles - Jane Harper
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
Year of the Rabbit - Tian Veasna
Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You - Matthew Inman
Imagine Me - Tahereh Mafi
The Confabulations of Toulouse Lechat - Richard Trebilcock
Damsel - Elana K. Arnold (DON’T EVER READ THIS)
Landline - Rainbow Rowell
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby
Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
This is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley
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Also mentioned:
Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/PiY9J0N
The StoryGraph https://www.thestorygraph.com/
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Julia Whelan https://jmwhelan.com/narrator/ -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s been travelling again, Emma’s FINALLY cleared the editing backlog, and we catch up on the rest of our 2023 reading!
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and chats
06:05 Recent Reads
06:07 A Doll’s House
08:55 The Peace Egg
11:00 These Violent Delights & Our Violent Ends
16:18 Artwords
24:17 Asian Art
28:39 Learned by Heart
32:49 Catching Fire
35:17 A Christmas Carol
38:44 Horrorstör
42:21 Sheets trilogy
54:40 A Greek Love
56:21 Ballad for Sophie
58:49 Educated
01:04:44 The Storyteller
01:06:09 The Lido
01:07:56 Dune
01:12:34 Currently Reading
01:12:43 Great Expectations
01:15:24 Myths from Mesopotamia
01:19:58 Masters of Death
01:25:23 Oriana. Una donna libera
01:28:24 Haul/TBR
01:28:41 Emma’s haul
01:31:35 Nina’s haul
01:36:01 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing
Dracula - Bram Stoker
These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong
Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong
The Poppy War trilogy - R.F. Kuang
Starbound trilogy - Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner
Artwords - Beatriz M. Robles
A Quokka’s Guide to Happiness - Alex Cearns
Asian Art - Lara Blanchard, Marika Sardar, & Dorinda Neave
Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series - Ransom Riggs
Sheets trilogy - Brenna Thummler
Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel - Mariah Marsden & Brenna Thummler
A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba - Zoé Valdés
Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia
Educated - Tara Westover
Educating - LaRee Westover
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl
The Lido - Libby Page
Dune - Frank Herbert
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Myths of Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley
The Egyptian Book of the Dead - E.A. Wallis Budge
Masters of Death - Olivie Blake
The Atlas series - Olivie Blake
Oriana. Una donna libera - Giuseppe Galeani & Paola Cannatella
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
Hammer the Sky (and Other Wonder Tales) - LL Rose
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament - Nguyen Du
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters - Kurt Vonnegut
Kabuki: Metamorphosis - David W. Mack
Women’s Bodies, Wisdom’s Wisdom - Christiane Northrup
Museums from the Inside: 60 years of CIMAM
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
When I Sing, Mountains Dance - Irene Solà
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doer
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doer
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
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Also mentioned:
Emma’s blog post: https://redphoenixpublishing.com.au/blog-1/f/authentic-expression-with-chronic-illness
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Fantasy Fellowship https://fantasy-fellowship.co.uk/
Speechify https://speechify.com/
Lightfall https://youtu.be/zaSEgLKjxMs?si=ZvkWEcV87qh1aAQQ
stitch. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/stitch/id1581052096
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard’s video on Gentleman Jack (Anne Lister) https://youtu.be/q46K0xwg0I0?si=IlUzZWwWIpny40b2
Gentleman Jack BBC show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7211618/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Maid https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11337908/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s in the middle of finals, Emma’s in the zone with classics, and we discuss a bunch of Zines that Nina got in Japan!
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and chats
10:56 Recent Reads
11:04 Equal Rites
14:45 Metamorphosis
20:34 Starbound trilogy
39:13 The Good Soldier
44:53 The Snow Queen
48:38 Currently Reading
49:06 A Doll’s House
50:24 Haul/TBR
50:33 Nina’s Zine haul!
01:00:35 Emma’s haul
01:04:41 Challenge Check-in
01:19:19 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi
Pregnancy Diary - Yōko Ogawa
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Starbound trilogy - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Great Gadsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
Mustache Rydes - Steven A. Yagyagan
Home of her Heart - Tara Goldstein
Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia
Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue
A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba - Zoé Valdés
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Sheets - Brenna Thummler
Delicates - Brenna Thummler
Lights - Brenna Thummler
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
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Also mentioned:
Scarf update: https://imgur.com/a/h7lSvIJ
Zine artists mentioned:
ASIAN_FOOD_DESIGN https://www.instagram.com/asian_food_design?igsh=MWg0em43YXppdHh2Zw==
KOSMINEN https://www.instagram.com/kosminenkollektiivi?igsh=encydzVyeHFsdHU0
Speechify https://speechify.com/
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY
Frozen https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg
Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/
Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms
Room https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3170832/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Lightfall https://youtu.be/zaSEgLKjxMs?si=ZvkWEcV87qh1aAQQ
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8 -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina just keeps starting more books, Emma’s struggling with character names, and we have a go at pairing books with songs.
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and chats
07:28 Recent Reads
07:42 The Eve Illusion
15:52 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
26:35 These Broken Stars
35:11 Station Eleven
42:32 Currently Reading
42:58 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
49:59 Breasts and Eggs
52:17 Equal Rites
53:57 This Shattered Light
54:45 Moody Bitches
01:02:22 Haul/TBR
01:07:43 Book-Song Pairings
01:22:00 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
The Eve Illusion - Giovanna & Tom Fletcher
The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series - Juno Dawson
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
These Broken Stars - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
This Shattered World - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy - Julie Holland M.D.
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill
Loverless Love - Christopher Guerin
Lights - Brenna Thummler
Sheets - Brenna Thummler
Delicates - Brenna Thummler
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Wrath & the Dawn - Renée Ahdieh
Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
Heartstopper series - Alice Oseman
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Also mentioned:
Nina at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion: https://imgur.com/a/WNJnVXv
McFly https://www.mcfly.com/
Carrie Hope Fletcher https://www.youtube.com/carrie
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/
Songs:
Satellite by Maggie Rogers https://youtu.be/FxhaT1hgBp4?si=6cU4gZeL54f9yB2Q
The Longest Wave by Red Hot Chili Peppers https://youtu.be/HWOblzU6-hM?si=HMK_2ECRcdepJLuw
exile (feat. Bon Iver) by Taylor Swift https://youtu.be/osdoLjUNFnA?si=24xTiaDeA81sK5Dq
Sick of Losing Soulmates by dodie https://youtu.be/8qGFAkyfjDU?si=apmYikEwCIrMC5RL
Bloom by Troye Sivan https://youtu.be/41PTANtZFW0?si=hh5sm287yOKGRRbl
Dreams by The Cranberries https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ?si=X3-qya3bcyP1bFBA -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s been exploring Japan, Emma’s body been a pain again, and we have some fun new things happening in our episodes moving forward!
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and chats
03:41 Recent Reads
05:11 The Canterville Ghost
07:20 The Model Millionaire and Other Stories (11:07-17:33 spoilers about The Birthday of the Infanta)
18:55 The Last Lecture
26:31 The Uninhabitable Earth
39:19 Convenience Store Woman
48:10 Moshfegh tangent
50:12 Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens
51:45 Dracula
57:53 Currently Reading
58:19 Dune
01:08:15 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
01:10:29 These Broken Stars
01:13:22 Haul/TBR
01:17:45 Challenge Check-In
01:29:09 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Model Millionaire and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change & Consumerism - Aja Barber
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens - Nick Arnold
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
These Broken Stars - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
This Shattered World - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Artwords - Beatriz M. Robles
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories - Taeko Kōno
The Eve Illusion - Giovanna & Tom Fletcher
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Discworld stories - Terry Pratchett
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go - Joanne Greene
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen
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Also mentioned:
Scarf update: https://imgur.com/a/bEg9wO0
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Randy Pausch Last Lecture https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo
Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms
The Vlogbrothers https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers
Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/
Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/c883c525-cad4-47be-af53-9a5f307b091d
Gilmore Girls https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238784/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Northanger Abbey https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844794/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s been busy with mid-terms, Emma’s done lots of reading, and we’re both making excellent progress on our reading goals!
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman
Tangled Hair - Akiko Yosano
The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Grace - Morris Gleitzman
Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler
We Should Hang Out Sometime - Josh Sundquist
The Shepherd King series - Rachel Gillig
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series - Juno Dawson
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of Mr W.H. - Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
If I Had Your Face - Frances Cha
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Dune series - Frank Herbert
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens - Nick Arnold
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton
Derrick of Death - Malvina Lerma
The Rich - Rachel Lynch
By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go - Joanne Greene
Girls Against God - Jenny Hval
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Also mentioned:
Fantasy Fellowship https://fantasy-fellowship.co.uk/
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
Ottessa Moshfegh Guardian interview https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/13/ottessa-moshfegh-im-not-brainstorming-ways-to-freak-people-out-lapvona-paperback
Dune https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Dune: Part Two https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926084/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/
Quirine Brouwer https://www.instagram.com/quirinebrouwer?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
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Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012
Artist: http://incompetech.com/ -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s made more books, Emma’s had her wisdom tooth removed, and we have a lot of catching up to do.
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Phoenix series - Osamu Tezuka
Black Jack series - Osamu Tezuka
Jungle Emporer series - Osamu Tezuka
The Confabulations of Toulouse LeChat - Richard Trebilcock
I Am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki
Botchan - Natsume Sōseki
Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
The Reader on the 6.27 - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi
The King’s Speech - Mark Logue & Peter Conradi
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
CHERUB series - Robert Muchamore
Skulduggery Pleasant series - Derek Landy
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage - Helen Ellis
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Damsel - Elana K. Arnold
Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
The Eve Illusion - Giovanna and Tom Fletcher
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Sign Here - Claudia Lux
Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens - Nick Arnold
The Portrait of Mr W.H. - Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Model Millionaire and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Grace - Morris Gleitzman
Two Twisted Crowns - Rachel Gillig
The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher - Doug MacLeod
The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells
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Also mentioned:
Reading scarf update https://imgur.com/a/ChZ8tpj
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10545296/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Romeo + Juliet (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Fantasy Fellowship https://fantasy-fellowship.co.uk/
Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms
No Books on a Dead Planet https://open.spotify.com/show/5cGclAfob2CYlcCaZVcn4I?si=BnuBTov0SH-V_JMvqK_UXg -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s living her best live in Japan, Emma’s got a huge birthday haul, and we discuss several reflective reads, among others.
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Zona: The Forbidden Land - Fred G. Baker https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=366830
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi
Sign Here - Claudia Lux
Botchan - Natsume Sōseki
Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
Unusual Stories from Many Lands - Arlo T. Janssen
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson
The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins - Caroline Taggart
A Little Book about Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life - Marcus Leaver
A Little Book about Music: Quotes for the Melophile in Your Life - Marcus Leaver
A Little Book about Movies: Quotes for the Cinephile in your Life - Marcus Leaver
All Cats Are Introverts - Francesco Marciuliano
The Little Instruction Book for Cats - Dannyboy and Kate Freeman
The Little Book of Cats: Purrs of Wisdom
Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
I Am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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Also mentioned:
Imgur album for this episode: https://imgur.com/a/3UiTEHL
Zona review: https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=366830
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
T2 https://www.t2tea.com/en/au -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s had her first book making class, Emma’s started taking CBD oil, and we have a discussion about Yellowface.
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
The King’s Speech - Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
The Reader on the 6.27 - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton
Drop Bear - Evelyn Araluen
The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
Marrying Ameera - Rosanne Hawke
Sign Here - Claudia Lux
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby
Babel - R.F. Kuang
The Poppy Wars trilogy - R.F. Kuang
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Also mentioned:
Emma’s blog post: https://redphoenixpublishing.com.au/blog-1/f/i-have-complicated-feelings-about-r-u-ok-day
Scarf photo: https://imgur.com/a/auI4xg2
R.F. Kuang Yellowface article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/rebecca-f-kuang-who-has-the-right-to-tell-a-story-its-the-wrong-question-to-ask
With Cindy video: https://youtu.be/JUdFkRdgPDU?si=M0WHj8qsyUEXvHTn
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg
Straya September https://youtu.be/UKhwP7W-u_Y
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8
Orilium Magical Readathon https://youtu.be/CtBWB6ATEdQ
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Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012
Artist: http://incompetech.com/ -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s had some seriously interesting adventures, Emma’s got a lot of reading done, and we have a lot to catch up on.
Send us an email! [email protected]
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Books mentioned in this episode:
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You - Matt Inman
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
First Survivor: The Impossible Childhood Cancer Breakthrough - Mark Unger
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story - Josh Sundquist
The Liar - Stephen Fry
The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
Wayfarers series - Becky Chambers
To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers
Landline - Rainbow Rowell
Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give - Ada Calhoun
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Attachments - Rainbow Rowell
Carry On series - Rainbow Rowell
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Love-Shy - Lili Wilkinson
Exiles - Jane Harper
The Dry - Jane Harper
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Truth Together - Kelly Rodgers
Against the Glass - Linda M. Habib
The Stellar Snow Job - Marie Howalt
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi
Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri
Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
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Also mentioned:
Degrassi: The Next Generation https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288937/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Heartstopper https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10638036/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Eighth Grade https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7014006/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
The Dry https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5144174/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ -
Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!
In this episode, Nina’s got a birthday book haul, Emma’s got a new tattoo, and we have a big scarf update.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Not Dead Yet! - Mark Fletcher (https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=332931)
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Salt Slow - Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
Dune - Frank Herbert
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Jane Austen's Table: Recipes Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen - Robert Tuesday Anderson
So. Many. Planner Stickers.
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
We are the Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
One Dark Window - Rachel Gillig
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You - Matt Inman
The Liar - Stephen Fry
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
Love-Shy - Lili Wilkinson
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Also mentioned:
Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/hbfRMmY
Not Dead Yet! review https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=332931
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
Barbie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries https://m.youtube.com/user/LizzieBennet
StarKid Productions https://www.teamstarkid.com/
Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8
Magical Readathon Autumn Equinox 2023 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxe_ZP6kflk
Orilium Magical Readathon https://youtu.be/CtBWB6ATEdQ - Show more
