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Two Book Nerds Talking
by Honey & Diyana
We are Honey and Diana, two Malaysian gals who really love diving into books of all kinds. Welcome to 2 Book Nerds Talking where we discuss books we love or those hot on the read list. We get to share reading insights, bookish topics, pick the minds of occasional bookworm guests and other general book nerdery. If you love books as much as we do, this is the podcast for you!
Episodes
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TBNT S07E04 | Coming Home and Going Away with Table for Two by Amor Towles
Table for Two is a story told in vignettes - Evelyn Ross drifts betwen cities, going from New York City to Chicago, then to Los Angeles. With every step she takes closer to home, she treads farther away away and finds herself in a constantly spiraling dialogue betwen her past, present, and…
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TBNT x Aesop E03 | Unbound Voices: After the Aēsop Women's Library
Hello booknerds! It's been 2 weeks since the Aēsop Women's Library and we had some time to gather our thoughts about it. We got some special guests on board for this epsiode and we asked their thoughts on the Aēsop Women's Library 2024 that took place from 14-16 June at the Aēsop stores at The...
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TBNT x Aesop E02 | Voices Unbound: Literature & Reading Culture in KL
Hello everyone! In this second special Aēsop episode, we're talking to some special guests that are no strangers to the literary scene in Kuala Lumpur. We have Sharon Bakar who is the Managing Director of Word Works SDN BHD. Sharon runs creative writing courses, helps edit and publish writer’s...
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TBNT x Aesop E01.2 | Introducing the Aēsop Women's Library 2024: voices unbound (Part 2)
Introducing the Aēsop Women's Library 2024, Malaysia Edition! We are beyond excited to partner up with Aēsop Malaysia again to bring you another year of the Aēsop Women's Library! This year's theme is voices unbound and you'd be spoilt for choice as there will be 27 titles to choose from this…
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TBNT x Aesop E01 | Introducing the Aēsop Women's Library 2024: voices unbound (Part 1)
Introducing the Aēsop Women's Library 2024, Malaysia Edition! We are beyond excited to partner up with Aēsop Malaysia again to bring you another year of the Aēsop Women's Library! This year's theme is voices unbound and you'd be spoilt for choice as there will be 27 titles to choose from this…
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TBNT S07E03 | Food, Murder, and Power in Butter by Asako Yuzuki
We're talking about Butter by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton) in this episode. Whew! There's a lot to unpack in this book, from delectable desciptions of food, to possible murders, the power struggle between the characters... this book is so much more than it seems. Inspired by the real...
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TBNT S07E02 | The Fox Wife with Yangsze Choo
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . Hello booknerds! We're so excited to share our interview with the fabulous…
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TBNT S07E01 | Anticipated Reads Q1 2024
Hello book nerds! We're back with a whole new season and we're kicking it off with our anticipated reads for the first quarter of 2024! It's an eclectic list filled with family drama, witches, crime, tea, and all sorts. It's going to be an interesting reading year and we hope you'll join us.…
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TBNT S06E17 | Autumn and Year End Reads
Hello booknerds! It has been some time but we're back from the ether to bring you our last episode of the year. Publishers usually hold out till the end of the year to release the good stuff and in this episode, we're talking about some anticipated reads that came out during the autumn season and...
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TBNT S06E16 | Looking After the Ashes with Kopi Soh
Spooky greeting booknerds. We know we're late but better late than never right? In this episode, we got to talk to the mysterious Kopi Soh, author of Looking After the Ashes. The book is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh’s childhood stories from growing up in a Peranakan family filled with...
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TBNT S06E15 | How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart with Florentyna Leow
Hello booknerds! We're talking to Tokyo-based Malaysian writer Florentyna Leow in this episode about her debut book How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart. The book is tender time capsule of her time working as a tour guide in Kyoto and the heartbreak that followed the end of a friendship. We absolutely…
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TBNT S06E14 | Ancient Civilisation Reads
We know it's rather late in the day to release this episode but we've came across some titles that are just too good not to share. The promt for our August #tbntbookchallenge2023 is to read a book set in an ancient city or about an ancient civilisation. Eventhough these are some recommendations…
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TBNT S06E13 | In Conversation with Saras Manickam Live at Lit Books
Hello booknerds! We got to talk to award-winning short story writer Saras Manickam back on 15 July 2023 live at our favourite indie bookshop Lit Books, PJ. We get into her short story collection My Mother Pattu and it was such a lovely conversation. Saras writes with much empathy and…
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TBNT S06E12 | Book Chaser: Babel by R. F. Kuang & I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
“We're here to make magic with words” ― R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History Step into the world of dark academia with us in this book chaser episode. We talk about Babel by R.F. Kuang and I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai; both set in institutions of learning and all the dark stuff...
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TBNT S06E11 | Talking to THE Samantha Shannon
Hello booknerds! We took a short break after all the Aesop Women's Library excitement and we're back! We got to speak to THE Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree, about her latest book, A Day of Fallen Night. A Day of Fallen Night is the prequel to Priory and it’s set just…
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TBNT x Aesop EP03 | What Its Like To Be a Woman Writer in Malaysia
This is the third special episode brought to you by Aesop Malaysia in conjunction with the Aesop Women's Library: Malaysia Edition. In this episode, we got Hanna Alkaf, Viji Krishnamoorthy, Alina Rastam, Qurratul ‘Ain, and 梁靖芬 Leong Ching Foon aboard to talk to us about being a woman writer in...
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TBNT x Aesop EP02 | Fiction and Poetry Picks for the Aesop Women's Library: Malaysia Edition
Cheers booknerds! This is the second episode of our Aesop Women's Library special. In this episode, Honey and Diana will be talking about some of their picks for the fiction and poetry collections that will be availble at the selected Aesop stores soon. You will be spoilt for choice and we're…
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TBNT x Aesop EP01 | Introducing The Aesop Women's Library: Malaysia Edition
Introducing The Aesop Women's Library! During this time, the shelves of Aesop Pavilion, Aesop Gardens, and Aesop Gurney Plaza will be cleared of products to make way for significant works of literature by Malayisan women authors. The selection is sprawling in genre and spirit: from emerging…
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TBNT S06E10 | Get in Your Feels with We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self? Get ready to be all in your feels with We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman. Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years, and when Edi is diagnosed...
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TBNT S06E09 | What Has Happened to Harry Pillai? with Shivani Sivagurunathan
We're talking to Malaysian author Shivani Sivagurunathan on her book, What Has Happened to Harry Pillai? in this episode. Shivani Sivagurunathan has been writing and publishing fiction and poetry for twenty years. She is an English professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and fun fact,...
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TBNT S06E08 | A Sci-Fi Cozy Mystery in Space, Welcome to Station Eternity
What do you do if you're a murder-magnet? Everywhere you go, someone dies. Mallory Veridian's solution is to blast off to space, to a space station called Eternity. Greetings booknerds! In this episode, Honey and DIana talk about a sci-fi cozy mystery called Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty....
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TBNT S06E07 | Anticipated Reads (Jan-June 2023)
Cheers booknerds! It's been a hot minute since you've heard our dulcet voices. Life certainly got crazy towards the end of 2022 but we've finally sat ourselves down in the studio to bring you some of our anticipated reads of the first half of 2023! Ranging from fantasy to non-fiction, a dash of a...
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TBNT S06E06 | An Evening with Karina Robles Bahrin, Author of The Accidental Malay
On the 2nd of September 2022, we sat down with the incredible Karina Robles Bahrin to talk about her debut Epigram Fiction Prize 2022 winning book, The Accidental Malay at Lit Books. We had such a great time talking to Karina and she's a hoot, as you'll find out yourself in this episode. This...
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TBNT S06E05 | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - A Must Read!
Cheers book nerds! We're back and fair warning, we're GUSHING about Gabreille Zevin's new book, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. This book helped Honey out of her reading slump and Diana loved it. It's described as "a love story, but it is not one you have read before", it's one of love...
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TBNT Minisode 26 | August #tbntbookchallenge2022 Recommendations
Man, it's August already and that means a new reading prompt for our #tbntbookchallenge2022! This month, we're challenging you to read a diverse or a classic YA book and we're back with some recommendations. Honey tackles some diverse and recent YA books while Diana is giving us some classic YA...
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TBNT S06E04 | 3 Feel Good Reads for your TBR
As promised, we both read some books that gives you a feel-good feeling. They range from intelligent animals to benevolent ghosts, a holiday in an Italian town and figuring out your place in the world. As usual feel-good reads often have a vein of coping, grieving, figuring out where one fits...
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TBNT S06E03 | Hanna Alkaf LIVE at Lit Books on Queen of the Tiles
We are finally back with LIVE events! Rejoice fellow introverts who occasionally would like to see some like-minded people. We interviewed Hanna Alkaf at Lit Books (our favourite lil bookish spot) on her book Queen of the Tiles. We put up a scrabble game and was horrified to find out some of her...
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TBNT Minisode 25 | July 2022 Challenge Book Recommendations
Greetings booknerds! We're back with another 30 Dirty episode to give you some book recommendations for our July #tbntbookchallenge2022. July's prompt is to read a book from a country you want to visit OR by an indigenous author. We've come up with a list of books where the setting is of places…
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TBNT S06E02 | 'We Had To Remove This Post' - The Darkest Book We Ever Reviewed?
Ian McEwan recommends it, calling it a compelling setting. Diana says it's one of the darkest books she has read in a long time comparing it to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Honey picked it up and did not put it down until she was finished with it. This book (originally in Dutch) was so...
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TBNT Minisode 24 | Book Recommendations for June Challenge 2022 Pt.2
We're back with Part 2 of our book recommendations for June's #tbntbookchallenge2022! We have more retellings and books on historical figures PLUS 2 extra books that are to be released later this year for your consideration. We hope you'll enjoy this episode. Cheers!
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TBNT Minisode 23 | Book Recommendations for June Challenge 2022 Pt.1
Hello! We're back with another of our 30 Dirty episodes and we're talking retellings and books about historical figures for our June #tbntbookchallenge2022. As usual, we got carried away talking about books so we've decided to make this episode a two-parter. Don't say we're not a podcast that…
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TBNT S06E01 | TBR for June to September 2022
We're back! We have been away for some time but it's all to recharge and regroup our wits for a whole new season of TBNT! We're kicking off Season 6 with one of our favourite episodes to make, a TBR episode. We're covering some books that are to be released in June till September 2022 that have...
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TBNT Pre-S06 Special | Pow Wow @ The Powder Room
Hello booknerds! This is a special episode in collaboration with the launch of BookXcess's new website! We were invited to have a talk at The Powder Room with some lovely friends and we had a blast talking about all things bookish and being a booknerd. Sit in with us for this laidback session....
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TBNT Minisode 22 | Unreliable Femme Fatale Reads for May Challenge
Hello booknerds! We're on a short break but we thought of coming back on air to give you some recommendations for our TBNT May Challenge; the main character is an antihero or a book with an unreliable narrator. We thought of combining the two and came up with a list of interesting unreliable…
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TBNT S05 Finale | Middle Grade Reads of Horror, Hope, and Wholesomeness
We've finally reached the end of a very.. interesting season. We thought of highlighting some middle grade reads and if you've never thought of picking up a middle grade book, you're kinda missing out! Honey comes in clutch with some interesting horror reads (don't worry, nothing too…
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TBNT Minisode 21 | Out of Earth Reads & Nature Titles (April Challenge)
For April's challenge we urge you to pick up a read that has an element of nature in the title OR explores a world beyond earth. Honey picked a whole bunch of cool graphic novels, all sci-fi of course, while Diana has a mix bag from YA fantasy to murder mystery, essays to romance, this is a…
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TBNT S0518 | Book Chaser: Travel, Transience, and the Art of Mono no Aware
We are back after a sudden two week break (it has been balls to walls busy for Honey) but huzzah! It's a book chaser where we discuss Emily Itami's sparking debut Fault Lines and Jessica Au's contemplative Cold Enough For Snow. There is honesty here with strong female voices, introspection of…
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TBNT Minisode 20 | Doctor Doctor - Medical Reads or Reads About Mental Health
Alrighty for March #tbntbookchallenge2022, we urge you to pick up a medical read (i.e. doctor's memoir, stuff set in clinics, hospitals all that jazz) OR a book about mental health. And we found a lot that we want to dive into as well. Will these reads make you feel better? Listen on! We have a...
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TBNT S05E17 | Cozy Mysteries with The Man Who Died Twice & The Maid
We are still in murder mysteries because well, there are so many good ones out there. This time we are going into 'cozies' - whodunnits usually with a lovable protagonist and set in small towns. There are suspects. There is usually pets. There might be a crumpet or two. Cozies are delightful...
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TBNT S05E16 | Books with an Animal's POV or on Pets for Feb's Challenge
Here are books! With animals in them, some giving you their very honest opinions, some told by the people who love them. We've found a whole lot of interesting books from a memoir of a famous chimp to a demonic goat the lives in a monastery. You'll meet a lofty tortoise and a fox who doesn't…
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TBNT S05E15 | Interview with Jennifer Niven & David Levithan
Hello folks! Here's an edited version our LIVE interview with David Levithan and Jennifer Niven on their collaborative book Take Me With You When You Go. It was a really cool interview where we talk about writing, being ambassadors of empathy and what they are reading too. Have a listen to find…
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TBNT S05E14 | Anticipated Reads 2022 (first half of year)
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 book highlights and some excerpts so you can figure out if you fancy picking up any of the books in...
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TBNT S05E13 | Favourite Shows and Books of 2021
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). We had a lot to say about the stuff we did last here. These are some highlights, some of our…
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TBNT S05E12 | Yearning, Tragedy, and Gender Rage with Shelley Parker-Chan author of She Who Became the Sun
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. Firstly because it's such an epic and emotional read and secondly because it totally fits into all…
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Literature for Equality E08 | Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls- Women's Rights are Human Rights
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 right for an education and the right to have a job. Today these are things a lot of us take for…
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Literature for Equality Project E07 | Principal Girl- Who Gets to be the Centre of a Story
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-telling as well as why we need #ownvoices tales, more of them starring girls and women finding their…
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Literature For Equality E06 | Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - Giving Every Girl a Voice
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 charming but also unflinching as it gives voice to children living through those challenging times. We...
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Literature for Equality E05 | Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill- Reframing our Fairytales
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 and sister unable to contain themselves from eating a gingerbread house. All these early stories…
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Literature For Equality E04 | Circe by Madeline Miller - The Unsung Heroism of Women's Labour
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. And of the women, the witches and fates, goddesses and maidens- nothing much. Enter the new...
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Literature For Equality E03 | Kim Ji-young : Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo - What's the Big Deal with Gender Equality Anyway?
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 modern Korean life. So many that is touched upon in this book will make you think about your own...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We are Honey and Diana, two Malaysian gals who really love diving into books of all kinds. Welcome to 2 Book Nerds Talking where we discuss books we love or those hot on the read list. We get to share reading insights, bookish topics, pick the minds of occasional bookworm guests and other general book nerdery. If you love books as much as we do, this is the podcast for you!
HOSTED BY
Honey & Diyana
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