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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: Follow Emma on Instagram: @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph: ninaevan

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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com 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

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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com 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

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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat 00:08:07 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

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! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat 00:06:05 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