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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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

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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and The Gilded Mirror blurb 00:01:51 Interview - completely spoiler free 00:31:33 Outro ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 —— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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/ —— 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 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Lost Kingdom blurb 02:58 Spoiler-free questions 31:02 Spoiler questions 56:31 Outro ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! 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

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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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== —— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 —— 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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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. Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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