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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 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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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=USUAN13000

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