Two Book Nerds Talking

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 Yangsze Choo on her new book The Fox Wife! It has a bit of everything; spirits, mystery, venge

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. Books mentioned: - You Only Call Me When You're In Trouble by Stephen McCauley- You Dreamed

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 year end. We would like to take this time to thank all our listeners for sticking with

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 "wisdom". We talked about strange taboos (pantang larang), spirits, ghosts, and everyt

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 loved reading her book and we obviously had to talk to her about it. She's a kindred spiri

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 for our August challenge, we do hope some of these titles have piqued your interest and

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 understanding of human complexities, tackling difficult issues like racism, mistreatment of migrant

“We're here to make magic with words”― R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane HistoryStep 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 that happens behind the scenes. Murder, colonism, dark secrets, word nerdery: all

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 shy of five centuries before Priory and covers the period known as the Great Sorrow, or

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 Malaysia. It is such an illuminating episode and we think we can confidently say