35. As weekly as possible… + Mid-year Book Freakout Tag!

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 moved again again again again (no, seriously!), Emma’s in catch up mode while doing secret side reading, and we do the Mid-year Book Freakout Tag! Send us an email! [e-mail] ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell A Career in Books - Kate Gavino Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson The Neapolitan Quartet series - Elena Ferrante Attack on Titan, Volume 2 - Hajime Isayama Scott Pilgrim series - Bryan Lee O’Malley 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Hamlet - William Shakespeare Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare Peter Pan - J.M. Barry Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change - Tim Flannery On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden The Weeds - Katy Simpson Smith Broad Band - Claire L. Evans My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby Yellowface - R.F. Kuang The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill The Death I Gave Him - Erm X. Liu Rouge - Mona Awad Damsel - Elana K. Arnold Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - S.A. Chakrabortry The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèjí Clark The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers Emma - Jane Austen A Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno Shatter Me series - Tahereh Mafi I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl Horns - Joe Hill ————————————————— Also mentioned: Mid-year Book Freakout Tag (slightly modified) Originally created by ReadLikeWildfire and Earl Grey Books https://youtu.be/X_Wh0rPGfRg 1. The best book you’ve read so far this year. 2. A new release from the first half of this year that you want to read. 3. A highly anticipated new release for the second half of the year. 4. Biggest disappointment so far. 5. Biggest surprise so far. 6. Favourite new author (debut or new to you). 7. A book that made you cry. 8. A book that made you happy. 9. The most beautiful book you’ve acquired so far this year. 10. A book you need to have read by the end of the year. —— Our most beautiful books: https://imgur.com/a/LMiIUvA?s=wa OnlineBookClub.org —— 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/