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  • Bye for now

    We’ve had to make the difficult decision to say goodbye for now, but you can still keep up with what we’re reading here if you:

    


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    3 min
  • 53. The Accidental Month of Fairytale Retellings + pride month reading and more!
    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! [email protected]
    Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
    Follow Nina on StoryGraph
    ninaevan
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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
    1 hr 22 min
  • Author Talk: KE Barden (The Gilded Mirror – spoiler free!)
    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! [email protected]
    Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads
    Follow Nina on StoryGraph
    ninaevan
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    Chapters:
    00:00:00 Intro and The Gilded Mirror blurb
    00:01:51 Interview - completely spoiler free
    00:31:33 Outro
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    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
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    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
    33 min
  • 52. Slumping, Soaring, and Starting a Path to Publishing.
    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! [email protected]
    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
    00:08:07 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
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    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
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    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
    1 hr 14 min
  • 51. The passing of time + Totally Should’ve Book Tag
    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! [email protected]
    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
    1 hr 32 min
  • 50. 50 episodes of BWB!! How well do we know each other?
    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! [email protected]
    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/
    ——
    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/
    1 hr 31 min
  • 49. Book speed-dating in Nina World
    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! [email protected]
    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
    1 hr 51 min
  • Author Talk: Laurel Black (Lost Kingdom)
    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! [email protected]
    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
    59 min
  • 48. Emma likes Dickens now??
    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! [email protected]
    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
    1 hr 13 min
  • Special Episode: 2023 Reading Wrap-Up + 2024 Reading Goals
    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! [email protected]
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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/
    1 hr 39 min

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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!