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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!
From Contemporary to Classic, Fantasy to Realism, YA to Dark Horror, Fiction to Non-Fiction, Nina’s and Emma’s reading tastes are wide and varied. And we have thoughts. Lots of thoughts.
Whether you’re here for book reviews, reading motivation, movie adaptation discussions, or just the soothing book chat vibes, there’s something for everyone here at Books Without Borders.
From Contemporary to Classic, Fantasy to Realism, YA to Dark Horror, Fiction to Non-Fiction, Nina’s and Emma’s reading tastes are wide and varied. And we have thoughts. Lots of thoughts.
Whether you’re here for book reviews, reading motivation, movie adaptation discussions, or just the soothing book chat vibes, there’s something for everyone here at Books Without Borders.
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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 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
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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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
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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.
Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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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
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 read a new highly rated book, Emma’s found a new favourite graphic novel, and we have an in-depth discussion about our very differing opinions of Peter Pan.
Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Swimming in a Sea of Stars - Julie Wright (https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=343359)
On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
Scott Pilgrim series - Bryan Lee O’Malley
One Dark Window - Rachel Gillig
Dune - Frank Herbert
Carry On series - Rainbow Rowell
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Salt Slow - Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Anonymous
The Truth Together - Kelly Rodgers
The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
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Also mentioned:
Swimming in a Sea of Stars review https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=343359
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
Barbie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Peter Pan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Pinocchio https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
1924 Peter Pan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015224/?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 experienced some bookstore brain freeze, Emma’s managed a new level of injury, and we have an in-depth discussion about Jane Eyre.
Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
This Green and Pleasant Land - Ayisha Malik
On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
One Dark Window - Rachel Gillig
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Dune - Frank Herbert
Happily: A Personal History-With Fairy Tales - Sabrina Orah Mark
Pageboy - Elliot Page
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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Also mentioned:
Puzzle app: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/jigsaw-puzzles-for-adults-hd/id642831690
A Man Called Otto https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Jessethereader video https://youtu.be/23bP2LK11C4
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/
Vanessa Zoltan https://vanessazoltan.com/
Hot & Bothered https://www.hotandbotheredrompod.com/
On Eyre https://www.hotandbotheredrompod.com/on-eyre
Live from Pemberley https://www.hotandbotheredrompod.com/live-from-pemberley
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Reading Jane Eyre While Black https://lithub.com/reading-jane-eyre-while-black/
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 moved again again again again (no, seriously!), Emma’s in catch up mode while doing secret side reading, and we do the Mid-year Book Freakout Tag!
Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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Books mentioned in this episode:
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
A Career in Books - Kate Gavino
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson
The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson
The Neapolitan Quartet series - Elena Ferrante
Attack on Titan, Volume 2 - Hajime Isayama
Scott Pilgrim series - Bryan Lee O’Malley
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak
Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Peter Pan - J.M. Barry
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change - Tim Flannery
On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
The Weeds - Katy Simpson Smith
Broad Band - Claire L. Evans
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
The Death I Gave Him - Erm X. Liu
Rouge - Mona Awad
Damsel - Elana K. Arnold
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - S.A. Chakrabortry
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèjí Clark
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
Emma - Jane Austen
A Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno
Shatter Me series - Tahereh Mafi
I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl
Horns - Joe Hill
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Also mentioned:
Mid-year Book Freakout Tag (slightly modified)
Originally created by ReadLikeWildfire and Earl Grey Books https://youtu.be/X_Wh0rPGfRg
1. The best book you’ve read so far this year.
2. A new release from the first half of this year that you want to read.
3. A highly anticipated new release for the second half of the year.
4. Biggest disappointment so far.
5. Biggest surprise so far.
6. Favourite new author (debut or new to you).
7. A book that made you cry.
8. A book that made you happy.
9. The most beautiful book you’ve acquired so far this year.
10. A book you need to have read by the end of the year.
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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 moved again again again and is also the sick one this week, Emma’s got a new five-star book to report on, and we discuss the spectrum of intolerance with relation to race and religion, as well as gender identity. Y’know… the light stuff!
Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Shatter Me series - Tahereh Mafi
This Green and Pleasant Land - Ayisha Malik
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
Pageboy - Elliot Page
The Other Side of Beautiful - Kim Lock
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Attack on Titan - Hajime Isayama
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson
We Are the Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
We Are the Weather - Jonathan Safran Foer
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Salt Slow - Julia Armfield
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - S.A. Chakraborty
One Dark Window - Rachel Gillig
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Also mentioned:
Scarf photos: https://imgur.com/a/MUf2lXb
Contrapoints https://youtube.com/@ContraPoints
Genderflux https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Genderflux
Nomadland https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9770150/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4
Andy Serkis https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785227/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Attack on Titan anime https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Mia Wasikowska https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1985859/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Jane Eyre (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229822/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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