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Books Without Borders

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! [e-mail] 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