Two Book Nerds Talking

Two Book Nerds Talking


Latest Episodes

TBNT S02E14 | Getting to Know Three Women with Special Guest, Min Hun
September 19, 2019

Lisa Taddeo's hot non-fiction Three Women has been on everyone's summer reading list. Does it really give what it claims to offer? Give you vital truths about feminine desire. Can we relate to these three women as women ourselves? And what does a man...

TBNT S02E13 | The Night Tiger Special with Yangsze Choo
September 12, 2019

We got to skype with the charming Yangsze Choo on her latest novel The Night Tiger. She answered all our questions including enlightening us on genre selection, her morbid fasciation with ghosts and, mirror worlds...

TBNT Minisode 001 | Break Your TBR Sept '19
September 07, 2019

We got a long TBR for September so it's out this week as a bonus Minisode. Our producer Jeff K. joined us for a lively discussion on tasty books out this month of September. Quite a lot of horror since it's creeping up to Halloween.

TBNT S02E12 | Japanese Playboys and Fleeting Loves, We Talk Kawakami
September 04, 2019

The 10 Loves of Mr Nishino is a series of ten short stories about the different women and affairs in one man's life. Contemporary author Hiromi Kawakami explores the nuances of a Japanese playboy and writes a wry, astute and at times, an achingly...

TBNT S02E11 | LIVE at Lit Books with Suffian Hakim
August 28, 2019

The Minorities is a rib-tickling, social satire on the life of 4 housemates and a pontianak that starts off with a few mishaps and culminating in a battle royale across the border. Nak perang pun... kena datang ke Malaysia... (want to fight also must...

TBNT S02E10 | The Butterfly Lion and How to get Kids Reading
August 14, 2019

Our guest this week, Marianne Dark has taught English for many years and run a language centre. She brings her insights in this episode on how to get kids excited about reading. Our book choice is the Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo, a wonderful...

TBNT S02E09 | Magic & Monsters in Pan's Labyrinth
August 07, 2019

Ever so often both of us crave for fae creatures and fantastical worlds. The recent Pan's Labyrinth book The Labyrinth of the Faun based on the 2006 movie by Del Toro had us frothing at the bit. His imagination paired with Cornelia Funke's elegant...

TBNT S02E08 | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
August 01, 2019

Ocean Vuong's raw and visceral debut novel takes you by the throat and doesn't let you go. Admittedly not for everyone, you will still be floored by the emotional truth within. Structured as a letter written by a son to his illiterate mother, this...

TBNT S02E07 | How to Stay Sexy and Not Get Murdered
July 24, 2019

Are you strangely fascinated by true crime and serial killers? Then you might have heard of My Favourite Murder, one of the most popular true crime podcasts out there helmed by dynamic duo Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff. Well now they have...

TBNT S02E06 | TBNT Special with Tash Aw (Interview)
July 17, 2019

After reading Tash Aw's riveting latest novel, We, The Survivors, we, the interviewers sat down to a skype with him. We talked all sorts of things, from fatalistic viewpoints of Asians to the class system that overrides race and religion. We also...

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