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 exploring Japan, Emma’s body been a pain again, and we have some fun new things happening in our episodes moving forward!
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and chats
03:41 Recent Reads
05:11 The Canterville Ghost
07:20 The Model Millionaire and Other Stories (11:07-17:33 spoilers about The Birthday of the Infanta)
18:55 The Last Lecture
26:31 The Uninhabitable Earth
39:19 Convenience Store Woman
48:10 Moshfegh tangent
50:12 Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens
51:45 Dracula
57:53 Currently Reading
58:19 Dune
01:08:15 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
01:10:29 These Broken Stars
01:13:22 Haul/TBR
01:17:45 Challenge Check-In
01:29:09 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Model Millionaire and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change & Consumerism - Aja Barber
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens - Nick Arnold
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
These Broken Stars - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
This Shattered World - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Artwords - Beatriz M. Robles
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories - Taeko Kōno
The Eve Illusion - Giovanna & Tom Fletcher
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Discworld stories - Terry Pratchett
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go - Joanne Greene
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen
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Also mentioned:
Scarf update: https://imgur.com/a/bEg9wO0
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Randy Pausch Last Lecture https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo
Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms
The Vlogbrothers https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers
Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/
Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/c883c525-cad4-47be-af53-9a5f307b091d
Gilmore Girls https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238784/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Northanger Abbey https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844794/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
