Two Book Nerds Talking

Two Book Nerds Talking


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TBNT S05E07 (Re-release) | The Broken Earth Trilogy
August 03, 2021

In keeping with our August 2021 Book Challenge, we are re-releasing one of our favourite cli-fi reads, The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. Being fantasy dorks, we dig deep into NK Jemisin's aw

TBNT Minisode 18 | 30 Dirty (August) Reads set by a Beach
July 27, 2021

Our August challenge is to read a book about climate change or a book set in the tropics. We decided to give you reads set near a beach (or sea or island) and as you can see we have interpreted it rat

TBNT S05E06 | Poisonous plants and witchery with Kalynn Bayron
July 20, 2021

We sat down for an interview with YA author Kalynn Bayron and talked about her new novel, This Poison Heart. It's got a gothic house, a secret garden, locked rooms and a girl who can control plants. '

TBNT S05E05 | Coping with Stuff and Rethinking: We discuss Think Again by Adam Grant
July 14, 2021

In these strange and challenging times, books like Think Again can be useful in making you embrace the things that you think are keeping you back from making change and moving on. Imposter syndrome (a

TBNT S05E04 | Keepers of Stories with Suffian Hakim
July 06, 2021

We had a little online LIVE event recently with Elaine from Lit Books and Singaporean author Suffian Hakim. We wished we were doing it at the bookstore and all of us felt a little bereft about it but

TBNT Minisode 17 | Novellas with a Dark Heart Part 2
June 29, 2021

This is part 2 of our 30 Dirty this month. We wanted to really get stuck into these brilliant novellas hence divided the show into two. This week we dive into the world of mer-people, enchanted forest

TBNT Minisode 16 | Novellas with a Dark Heart Part 1
June 22, 2021

We're a careening into the second half of 2021 and the July challenge is to read a book that has magical realism or a speculative fiction novella. As usual we narrowed it down and are bringing to you today Novellas that has a bit of a horror bent to...

TBNT S05E03 | Feminist Retellings in 3 Awesome Books
June 16, 2021

We're doing book chasers this week and it's all on feminist retellings - and we're looking into 3 books that go into Greek mythology, Norse mythology, and a famous Ballad. These books are debuts and are so good we can only curl up in envy even as we...

TBNT S05E02 | How Do You Live? The Most Charming Coming-of-Age Read
June 08, 2021

We sat down to discuss a wonderful translation of Genzaburo Yoshino's 1930's classic How Do You Live? This is one of Diana's best reads of 2021 so far, and once you've sat back and listened to this episode, you will understand why books like this are...

TBNT S05E01 | Project Hail Mary with author Andy Weir
June 01, 2021

It's the first episode of Season 5. Hello friends and book lovers we are back and this is our 100th episode! That's pretty amazing eh? And have we got a treat for you. This is an interview we did with sci-fi author Andy Weir and we had a good time...

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