Books Without Borders

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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 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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

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 ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and The Gilded Mirror blurb 00:01:51 Interview - completely spoiler free 00:31:33 Outro ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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

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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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

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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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

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 ————————————————— 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/

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 ————————————————— 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

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 ————————————————— 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

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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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! [email protected] ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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 ————————————————— 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/