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!

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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