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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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