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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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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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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

Edited by: Adam Azlee

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Bookmark This! Ep 6: Assassins, AI and alternate histories

20:31 mins

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

This month, we take a stab at two new books in translation. Korean novelist Kim Un-Su's offbeat thriller The Plotters is about a society of assassins who work out of a library.

Broken Stars is an anthology of cutting-edge Chinese science fiction by the likes of Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Hao Jingfang and more, edited by Ken Liu.

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li

Edited by: Adam Azlee

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Bookmark This! Ep 15: Escape into these books

23:54 mins

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

After nearly two months under circuit breaker, you may want to break free - so journalists Olivia Ho (right) and Toh Wen Li (far right) pick out some escapist reads for you in the latest episode of this Straits Times literary podcast, whether it is renowned author Dan Brown or feeling less miserable with Les Miserables.

Choose your own adventure in Intan Paramaditha's The Wandering, or flee a futuristic Singapore for new worlds in Judith Huang's Sofia And The Utopia Machine.

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown: 1:10

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones: 4:45

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy: 8:37

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: 11:40

Sofia And The Utopia Machine by Judith Huang: 16:52

The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha: 20:58

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

Edited by: Penelope Lee

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