20. Wisdom of the elders + the good reads just keep coming!

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 discovering a new interest in books with older characters, Emma‘s run of good reads continues, and we have a check in on our monthly reading challenges. Send us an email! [e-mail] ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting - Clare Pooley The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin The Hole We’re In - Gabrielle Zevin Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin Margarettown - Gabrielle Zevin Anya’s Ghost - Vera Brosgol Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka The Survivalists - Kashana Cauley Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give - Ada Calhoun Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh Walden - Henry David Thoreau Beauty is a Wound - Eka Kurniawan The Emperor of Any Place - Tim Wynne-Jones Death in her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson Spells for Forgetting - Adrienne Young The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah Himawari House - Harmony Becker When I Sing, Mountains Dance - Irene Solà Before the Coffee Gets Cold The Birthday of the World and Other Stories - Ursula K. Le Guin Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin ————————————————— Also mentioned: Imgur album for this episode: https://imgur.com/a/JPqORFl CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4 Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/ Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg Charlie’s books StoryGraph challenge https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/62d8f8b1-30a3-42eb-babc-7d7753df9339 Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8