Book Club: 'Last Tang Standing'

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Nerdette Book Club! Each month, we read a book and chat about it with a rotating group of panelists. This month’s pick is Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho.

It tells the story of Andrea Tang, a thirtysomething Malaysian woman who lives and works in Singapore. Her love life is a mess and she’s vying for partner at her law firm, all while drinking a lot and somehow spending many hours playing Candy Crush.

Listen along as Nerdette host Greta Johnsen discusses the book with podcast expert and Servant of Pod host Nick Quah.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
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0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and you are listening to
0:21.0	the Nurdett Book Club. It's just like a normal book club,
0:23.5	except you don't even have to feel bad
0:25.3	if you didn't read the book.
0:27.0	This month, we are talking about Lauren Ho's last Tang standing.
0:31.0	There's a spoiler-free interview with Lauren in the feed, so if you haven't read the book yet and you are terrified of
0:36.4	spoilers, that is a great episode for you to start. If you haven't read the book yet and you love
0:41.6	spoilers, then you are totally in the right
0:44.4	place because we are gonna unpack it all and here to unpack it with me is
0:48.8	Nick qua he writes about podcasts for New York magazine among other places and he even hosts a
0:55.1	podcast about podcasts. It's called Servant of Podnick. Hey! Hello hello.
1:00.4	I have to also say you are our first dude book club panelists.
1:05.0	Oh no way!
1:06.0	Yeah man.
1:08.0	Exciting.
1:09.0	I had a feeling you'd be delighted by that.
1:12.0	I'm really deeply honored. Okay so I figure we should do like super quick
1:17.2	synopsis and then we can dive deeper into the plot a little later but for people
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