Two Book Nerds Talking

Two Book Nerds Talking


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TBNT S05E14 | Anticipated Reads 2022 (first half of year)
January 18, 2022

Some of the big ticket books for the first half of 2022 is here! We probably do another one in May since we've hardly covered anything and still managed to natter for almost an hour. Here are some boo

TBNT S05E13 | Favourite Shows and Books of 2021
January 12, 2022

Yes, we are back to normal TBNT programming! It was a crazy end of year so we could only wrap things up at the beginning of 2022 (the tried to put in anticipated reads and then kinda failed hehe). W

TBNT S05E12 | Yearning, Tragedy, and Gender Rage with Shelley Parker-Chan author of She Who Became the Sun
December 14, 2021

We are back deep diving into one of our favourite reads this year - She Who Became The Sun. Joining us is author Shelley Parker-Chan herself and it felt like the fitting book to end our year with. Fir

Literature for Equality E08 | Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls- Women's Rights are Human Rights
December 13, 2021

In our final episode for our Literature for Equality project we look into the suffrage movement in Britain during World War One and talk about the fight for women's rights- the right to vote, the righ

Literature for Equality Project E07 | Principal Girl- Who Gets to be the Centre of a Story
December 06, 2021

We go closer to home in this episode by shinning a light on our own folklores and contemporary tales with a girl at the centre of the story. We had a lot of fun discussing our own love of story-tellin

Literature For Equality E06 | Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - Giving Every Girl a Voice
November 29, 2021

When Persepolis came out in 2000 it became an instant hit because it gave a human perspective on all that has happened in Iran during the late70s and 80s. Marjane's black and white drawings were charm

Literature for Equality E05 | Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill- Reframing our Fairytales
November 13, 2021

So many of our fairytales and folklores deal with gender stereotypes. The pretty, poor girl waiting for a prince to save her, the girl who recklessly wears red and gets eaten by a wolf, the brother an

Literature For Equality E04 | Circe by Madeline Miller - The Unsung Heroism of Women's Labour
November 07, 2021

Epics are all about heroes especially Greek epics. Odysseus sailing the seas vanquishing monsters and starting wars. Achilles fighting the Trojan war a harbinger of fleet death and divine retribution.

Literature For Equality E03 | Kim Ji-young : Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo - What's the Big Deal with Gender Equality Anyway?
October 30, 2021

In our third episode of our LFE Project, we take you in the life of one Korean Woman. This slim book that made waves when it first came out shone a light on conditioned misogyny and systemic sexism in

Literature For Equality E02 | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Who's Afraid of the Word 'Feminism'?
October 23, 2021

In our second episode of our Literature for Equality Project, we tackled the word feminism itself. How did this word get its current reputation? Why do people shy away from the word feminist? Adichie

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