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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! From Contemporary to Classic, Fantasy to Realism, YA to Dark Horror, Fiction to Non-Fiction, Nina’s and Emma’s reading tastes are wide and varied. And we have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. Whether you’re here for book reviews, reading motivation, movie adaptation discussions, or just the soothing book chat vibes, there’s something for everyone here at Books Without Borders.
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  • 50. 50 episodes of BWB!! How well do we know each other?

    50. 50 episodes of BWB!! How well do we know each other?
    May 3 2024
    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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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/
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • 49. Book speed-dating in Nina World

    49. Book speed-dating in Nina World
    Apr 12 2024
    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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • Author Talk: Laurel Black (Lost Kingdom)

    Author Talk: Laurel Black (Lost Kingdom)
    Mar 20 2024
    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 ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Lost Kingdom blurb 02:58 Spoiler-free questions 31:02 Spoiler questions 56:31 Outro ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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
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    58 mins
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