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Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads. This series ended in 2022.

Podcasters: Olivia Ho & Toh Wen Li

Produced by The Straits Times, SPH Media Trust.

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S1E26: The worlds of Sally Rooney and Anne Carson: Bookmark This! Ep 26

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11/12/21 • 18 min

Bookmark This! Ep 26: The worlds of Sally Rooney and Anne Carson

18:48 mins

Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.
In the latest episode of this literary podcast, The Straits Times journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li talk about new and old in the latest works by Sally Rooney and Anne Carson, from the millennial crisis of Beautiful World, Where Are You to the reworking of Greek myth in H Of H Playbook.

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (0:54)
H Of H Playbook by Anne Carson (12:25)

Produced by: Olivia Ho ([email protected]), Toh Wen Li ([email protected]) and Penelope Lee

Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Penelope Lee

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S1E32: Novel romances that defy stereotypes

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07/07/22 • 15 min

Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.
In the latest episode of this literary podcast, The Straits Times' journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li look at three romance novels whose characters fly in the face of stereotypes: Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic by Lauren Ho, You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, and Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
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7:45 You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty, by Akwaeke Emezi
10:50 Lessons In Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
Produced by: Olivia Ho ([email protected]), Toh Wen Li ([email protected]) and Eden Soh

Edited by: Paxton Pang

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S1E33: Novels about Asians in diaspora who break the rules

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08/11/22 • 16 min

Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

In the latest episode of this literary podcast, The Straits Times journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li look at two novels about Asians in diaspora who know the rules and how to break them: Portrait Of A Thief by Grace D. Li, and Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen.

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1:49 Portrait Of A Thief, by Grace D. Li

6:50 Counterfeit, by Kirstin Chen

Produced by: Olivia Ho ([email protected]), Toh Wen Li ([email protected]), Penelope Lee and Teo Tong Kai

Edited by: Penelope Lee & Soh Yu Qiang

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S1E14: Pandemic novels for stay-home reading: Bookmark This! Ep 14

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04/09/20 • 31 min

Bookmark This! Ep 14: Pandemic novels for stay-home reading

31:29 mins

Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Bored out of your mind while staying at home during the coronavirus circuit breaker? In the latest episode of this Straits Times literary podcast, journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li pick out some pandemic novels that may resonate with you, from Albert Camus’s seminal The Plague to Emily St John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic Station Eleven, as well as books by Singaporean authors Danielle Lim and Thea Lim.
0:55 The Plague by Albert Camus

6:33 Severance by Ling Ma

13:51 Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

17:44 An Ocean Of Minutes by Thea Lim21:03 Trafalgar Sunrise by Danielle Lim

24:50 Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
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Edited by: Penelope Lee

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S1E12: Clothes, consumption and the climate crisis: Bookmark This! Ep 12

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12/26/19 • 19 min

Bookmark This! Ep 12: Clothes, consumption and the climate crisis
20 mins
Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.
Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li check out three new books on the climate crisis: Naomi Klein's searing essay collection On Fire; We Are The Weather, in which Jonathan Safran Foer argues you can fight climate change by changing your diet; and Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas, which looks at the environmental cost of fashion.
Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, Penelope Lee and Ernest Luis
Edited by: Adam Azlee

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S1E11: Booker breakdown - Atwood, Rushdie or the 1,000-page sentence?: Bookmark This! Ep 11

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09/30/19 • 27 min

Bookmark This! Ep 11: Booker breakdown - Atwood, Rushdie or the 1,000-page sentence?

27:30 mins

Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li break down the Booker Prize shortlist and weigh Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie's chances against Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport, which is more than 1,000 pages long.

00:51 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
05:15 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
07:30 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World by Elif Shafak
12:26 An Orchestra Of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
15:26 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
19:27 Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li
Edited by: Penelope Lee

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S1E9: Reviewing global and Singapore audiobooks: Bookmark This! Ep 9

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07/08/19 • 24 min

Bookmark This! Ep 9: Reviewing global and Singapore audiobooks

24:18 mins

Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads

When should an audiobook not sound too polished?

Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li swap their bookmarks for headphones in this episode, in which they review audiobooks by the likes of David Sedaris, Neil Humphreys, Marlon James, Marie Kondo and more.

They review the new Storytel app, which is also putting out original content based on Singapore literature:

2:50 David Sedaris, Children Playing Before A Statue Of Hercules
4:19 Neil Humphreys, Notes From An Even Smaller Island
6:16 George Saunders, Lincoln In The Bardo
8:02 Philip Pullman, The Book Of Dust #1: La Belle Sauvage (read by Michael Sheen)
10:30 Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (read by Dion Graham)
13:44 Lau Siew Mei, The Last Immigrant (read by Benjamin Chow)
16:28 Sharlene Teo, Ponti (read by Vera Chok)
18:03 Sebastian Sim, The Riot Act (read by Karen Tan)
20:21 Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up (read by Lucy Scott)

Audiobook clips provided courtesy of Storytel Singapore.

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, John Lui and Ernest Luis

Edited by: John Lui

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S1E8: Middlemarch, Middle-Earth and the end of the world: Bookmark This! Ep 8

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05/15/19 • 19 min

Bookmark This! Ep 8: Middlemarch, Middle-Earth and the end of the world

20 mins

Synopsis: A new monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Book-to-screen adaptations - love them or hate them? This month, as Game Of Thrones wraps up on HBO and we look forward to the Amazon Studios and BBC miniseries based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Armageddon comedy Good Omens, we size up the best and worst adaptations out there - from actors playing multiple characters in Cloud Atlas to the failure of the 2005 Pride And Prejudice film, and why Brad Pitt needs to stop making zombie movies.

1:55: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
5:37: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
7:04: The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
11:42: Middlemarch by George Eliot
13:31: Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
14:51: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
15:27: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
15:47: Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
16:23: World War Z by Max Brooks
18:18: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
18:44: The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li

Edited by: Adam Azlee

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S1E7: Singaporean Lee Jing-Jing's historical novel How We Disappeared; New York novelist Siri Hustvedt's Memories Of The Future: Bookmark This! Ep7

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04/11/19 • 19 min

Bookmark This! Ep 7: Singaporean Lee Jing-Jing's historical novel How We Disappeared; New York novelist Siri Hustvedt's Memories Of The Future

19:35 mins

Synopsis: A new monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

This month, we look at women and memory in two new books. New York novelist Siri Hustvedt's Memories Of The Future is about a woman named S.H. who moves to New York.

Is it a memoir? Is it something else?

There is also Singaporean Lee Jing-Jing's devastating historical novel How We Disappeared, about "comfort women" in World War II-era Singapore.

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li

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S1E13: In the mood for love poems: Bookmark This! Ep 13

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02/06/20 • 30 min

Bookmark This! Ep 13: In the mood for love poems
30:56 mins
Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

With Valentine's Day around the corner, Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li chat about love poems across the spectrum, whether it is John Donne or Joshua Ip, budding romance or broken hearts, having a Coke together or keeping the stars apart.

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, Penelope Lee and Ernest Luis
Edited by: Adam Azlee

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