Two Book Nerds Talking

Two Book Nerds Talking


Latest Episodes

TBNT S02E08 (Rerelease) | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
March 02, 2021

Notes from Honey: Hey Booknerds, we are taking a week’s break but here’s one of our favourites from the TBNT archives and fitting too for March’s #tbntbookchallenge2021 | .. | Ocean Vuong's raw and visceral debut novel takes you by the throat and...

TBNT Minisode 12 | Japanese Queer Writing for March Reading Challenge
February 23, 2021

Producers Note: This episode contains content that might be sensitive to some, content includes particular kinds of consensual sexual activity and discussions of LGBTQ+ topics. If this isn't your cup of tea, we suggest you skip this one.

TBNT S04E14 | Talking Blood Prince with author Tutu Dutta
February 17, 2021

Come meet the first vampire in the world! Did you know that Raja Bersiong actually lived in the 11th or 12th century meaning that it predates Vlad Tepesh? - the real life bloodthirsty ruler that spawned Dracula. Mentioned in Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa...

TBNT S04E13 | Living in Interior Chinatown
February 09, 2021

One of Diana's current favourite author is Charles Yu and we got stuck into Interior Chinatown- one of the most innovative and entertaining books of 2020, hey it won the National Book Award. We went into structure, stereotypes even fonts and foibles....

TBNT S04E12 | Talking Books with Mr. Big Bad Wolf, Andrew Yap
February 02, 2021

Ever wondered what it takes to run the biggest book sale in the world over and over again and still have juice leftover to open beautiful bookstores and push for reading advocacy? Well at the end of 2020 Diana and Honey sat down with Andrew Yap, one...

TBNT Minisode 011 | Indochinese Books for our February Reading Challenge
January 26, 2021

To egg you along on our #tbntbookchallenge for 2021 we will be putting up a 30mins show at the end of each month that can get your juices going for the next month. So February's challenge is to read a book by a Southeast Asian author or set in...

TBNT S04E11b | 2021 Anticipated Reads Jan-Jun Part 2
January 24, 2021

Part 2 folks where we cover Asian Lit, middle-grade-YA, translated books and other notable literary fiction coming out in the first half of 2021. Enjoy!

TBNT S04E11a | 2021 Anticipated Reads Jan-Jun Part 1
January 19, 2021

We are trying to keep our shows concise folks so here is the first part of 2021 Anticipated Reads (January-June). In this first part we go into most anticipated books, a huge non-fiction list and speculative fiction to watch out for. We though we...

TBNT Minisode 010 | Last Episode 2020 - Our Year in Podcasting
December 29, 2020

For those of you who have just started listening to TBNT, these are some of our 2020 highlights. It's been quite a year! We clocked over 40 episodes, launched Patreon, figured out how to do social distancing recording, talked and talked and talked and...

TBNT Minisode 009 | Stocking Filler: Our Reading Roundup
December 22, 2020

Our second last little episode of the year! This time we are giving you a quick tour of our reading year. We talk about romantic books, books we'll probably DNF and what some of the books we are looking forward to reading... Alien Sunset by...

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