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!

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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and chats
00:09:12 The Gilded Mirror
00:14:43 Crystal Clear
00:21:30 Everything Under the Moon
00:23:47 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
00:24:37 The Hobbit
00:27:20 Private Rites
00:29:23 Ash
00:33:37 The Gender Games
00:36:46 Crossings
00:40:35 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date
00:42:16 Some Desperate Glory
00:48:14 Dear Diseased Body
00:49:53 Esio Trot
00:55:59 Of Jade and Dragons
01:00:51 Ulysses
01:03:28 Wicked
01:03:49 Musical theatre tangent
01:06:12 This Time Tomorow
01:08:52 The World at Her Fingertips
01:09:28 Jade War
01:09:52 Nina’s Haul
01:17:56 Emma’s Haul
01:21:07 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:

The Gilded Mirror – KE Barden
A Court of Throne and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
Beauty and the Beast – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Crystal Clear – Lou Nova
The Green Bone Saga – Fonda Lee
Everything Under the Moon – Michael Earp
Homesick for Another World – Ottessa Moshfegh
Salt Slow – Julia Armfield
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
Lost Kingdom – Laurel Black
Private Rites – Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
Ash – Malinda Lo
The Gender Games – Juno Dawson
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – Juno Dawson
Crossings – Alex Landragin
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date – Ashley Herring Blake
Bright Falls trilogy – Ashley Herring Blake
Some Desperate Glory – Emily Tesh
Dear Diseased Body – Cara Morgan
Esio Trot – Roald Dahl
Of Jade and Dragons – Amber Chen
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Emperor’s New Clothes – Hans Christian Andersen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
Landline – Rainbow Rowell
The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller – Joan Dash
Jade War – Fonda Lee
Holding Up the Universe – Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Midnight Rooms – Donyae Coles
A Magical Girl Retires – Park Seolyeon trans. Anton Hur
Toward Eternity – Anton Hur
Their Divine Fires – Wendy Chen
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
The House of Hidden Meanings – RuPaul
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts – Louis Bayard
Briefly Perfect Human: Making and Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End – Alua Arthur
The Woman Destroyed – Simone de Beauvoir
The Last Sane Woman – Hannah Regel
The It Girl – Ruth Ware
Black River – Matthew Spencer
Creative Differences and Other Stories – Graeme Simsion
The Stranger – Kathryn Hore
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Mythos – Jaysen Headley
Mongrel – Hanako Footman
A Curious Beginning – Deanna Raybourn
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Also mentioned:

Donate and support Emma in the readathon to raise money for literacy in Cambodia: https://chaptersforchange.org/emma-grey

Cara Morgan’s chapbook: https://bottlecap.press/products/diseased
Cara Morgan can be found on Instagram @caramorganpoet and here is their link tree: https://linktr.ee/CaraLikeCarrot

Ekman’s Universal Emotions (turns out there’s seven now!) https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions
Abdi Nazemian https://www.abdinazemian.com/
Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04?si=rVFt-Z3GLu7YJYj7
Book Roast https://youtube.com/@BookRoast

CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4

@salboreads on Instagram
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/j-YepeqhKUY?si=__7DPPoVuq1Yzhwz
Jaysen Headley - @ezeekat on all socials