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!

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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