Tea or Books?
By Simon and Rachel
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Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.
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Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s Daughter
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Tea or Books? #126: Should Books Be Banned? and Lessons in Chemistry vs Dear Mrs Bird
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Tea or Books? #125: Do We Read Celeb Memoirs? and Day vs Landscape in Sunlight
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Tea or Books? #124: Our Favourite Reads of 2023
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs Harriet Said…
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #122: Mary Lawson novels w/ Mary Lawson!
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #121: Should Books Have A Message? and Two Jane Gardam Novels
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The English Air vs The Morning Gift – with Claire / The Captive Reader
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women Talking vs Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #118: Do We Read Children and Adult Books By The Same Author? and Lucy vs The Buddha in the Attic
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and Ex-Wife vs Sally On The Rocks
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #116: Do We Like Books About Sport and Quick Curtain vs It Walks By Night
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May 12, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #115: Do We Like Books About Bookshops? and Quartet in Autumn vs Journal of a Solitude
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #114: Linear vs Non-linear Narratives and Winter in the Air vs A World of Love
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings? and South Riding vs Ruth
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were Sisters vs The Three Sisters
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Tea or Books? #111: Do We Care What Characters Look Like? And Good Behaviour vs Full House
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #110: Do We Care Where Characters Work? and A Helping Hand vs The True Deceiver
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #109: Boarding House Novels vs Living Alone and Heat Wave vs Heat Lightning
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late and Soon vs A Game of Hide and Seek
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read? and Two Stella Gibbons Novels
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #106: Book or Movie First, and The Feast vs Grand Canyon
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #104: Do We Care What Characters Dream? and William – an Englishman vs The Great Fortune
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May 10, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #103: Thinking vs Feeling and Moon Tiger vs The Diviners
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #102: Do We Read Books about Grief? and Five Windows vs Four Gardens – with Claire The Captive Reader
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #101: Rachel explores Simon’s shelves
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Tea or Books? #100: Q&A Special
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans vs The Crowded Street
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading, and Tension vs Thank Heaven Fasting
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be Republished? and two Barbara Pyms
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The Half-Crown House
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in May
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson Novels
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear? and Girl, Woman, Other vs Life After Life
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #91: Familiar or Unfamiliar Settings? and Two Elizabeth von Arnim novels
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Tea or Books? #90: Good or Bad Reading Year? and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn vs O, The Brave Music
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and Gilead vs Home
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #88: Blurbs or No Blurbs, and The Remains of the Day vs Never Let Me Go
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #87: Biographies vs Novels about Real People and Emma by Jane Austen and Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #86: Empathy vs Sympathy and The Child That Books Built vs When I Was A Child I Read Books
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #85: One House or Many Houses, and A Thatched Roof vs Fresh From The Country
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #84: Sea vs Mountains and Her Son’s Wife vs Auntie Mame
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May 06, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #83: Comfort Zones (Yes or No?) and Two Willa Cather Novels
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #82: Australia vs New Zealand and two Adrian Bell books
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #81: Style vs Plot and Living vs Loving by Henry Green
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #80: Should Authors Only Write What They Know? and Agatha Christie vs Dorothy L Sayers
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Tea or Books? #79: Political Books (Yes or No?), and The Diary of a Bookseller vs Bookshop Memories
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and Two Unfinished Jane Austen Novels
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #77: Fantasy vs Fantastic Fiction and Wine of Honour vs Beneath the Visiting Moon
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #76: Illustrations (yes or not), and Miss Hargreaves vs Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #75: Moral Readers or Amoral Readers and The Summer Book vs Birthday Letters
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #74: YA (yay or nay?) and Stoner vs The Easter Parade
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #73: One Chance or Many Chances, and Two Margery Sharp Novels
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May 16, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #72: Reading at Home vs Reading Elsewhere and The Hours vs Mrs Woolf and the Servants
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #71: Multi-Narrative vs Single Narrative, and Period Piece vs A London Child of the 1870s
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #70: Simon Takes a Tour of Rachel’s Bookshelves
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #69: Small World vs Wide World and Blue Remembered Hills vs Seasoned Timber
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #68: Tact vs Attack, and North and South vs Pride and Prejudice
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #67: Books as Gifts: Yes or No, and Little vs Alva & Irva
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Tea or Books? #66: Domestic Books vs Worldly Books and Elizabeth Bowen vs Elizabeth Taylor
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #65: cars vs bicycles, and Hons and Rebels vs Tory Heaven
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #64: WW1 vs WW2 and Coronation vs Love of Seven Dolls
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #63: First Edition vs Worst Edition and Parnassus on Wheels vs The Education of Harriet Hatfield
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #62: Internet vs Bookshop and Mr Pim Passes By vs Four Days’ Wonder
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #61: Do We Care What Characters Eat? and The French Lieutenant’s Woman vs Remarkable Creatures
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #60: married vs unmarried characters, and Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day vs Patricia Brent, Spinster
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #59: Hard vs Easy Holiday Reading, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle vs The Haunting of Hill House
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #58: Book Groups (yes or no), and The Fountain Overflows vs Invitation to the Waltz
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May 29, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #57: save vs binge, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd vs The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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May 14, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #56: Review vs Recommendation and The Lark vs High Wages
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #55: Versatility vs Dependability and House-Bound by Winifred Peck vs The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #54: Reading Children’s Books as Children vs Adults, and Tom’s Midnight Garden vs The Secret Garden
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #53: Top of TBR vs Bottom of TBR, and The Bookshop vs According to Mark
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #52: Detective Fiction vs Crime Fiction and Merry Hall vs The Sweet and Twenties
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Feb 18, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #51: Author Parents vs Author Children, and The Boat by L.P. Hartley vs Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Tea or Books? #50: Question & Answer
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #49: Death of the Author?, and The Woman in White vs Possession
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #48: Sad Beginnings vs Happy Beginnings and The Semi-Attached Couple vs The Semi-Detached House
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #47: sequels vs new-author sequels, and A Compass Error vs Pleasures and Landscapes
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #46: Canadian vs Irish Literature, and My Name Is Lucy Barton vs Anything Is Possible
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #45: Do Literary Prizes Affect Our Reading and The Heir vs All Passion Spent
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #44: Monogamous vs Polygamous, and The Village vs To Bed With Grand Music
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Sep 17, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #43: scientists vs clergymen, and As It Was vs Fair Stood the Wind for France
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #42: trains vs boats, and Illyrian Spring vs Hotel du Lac
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #41: novels set in one day vs many years, and The Forsyte Saga vs The Cazalet Chronicles
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #40: how do we arrange our bookshelves, and two E.H. Young novels
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #39: spoilers or no spoilers, and Anne of Green Gables vs Daddy Long-Legs
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May 20, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #38: male characters by women vs female characters by men, and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont vs At The Jerusalem
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May 01, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #37: does studying books ruin them? and A View From the Bridge vs Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #36: audiobooks (yes or no?) and two Furrowed Middlebrow novels
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #35: do we want to meet our favourite authors, and The Magnificent Spinster vs The Rector’s Daughter
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #34: novels based on real life: yes or no?, and A Pin To See The Peepshow vs Messalina of the Suburbs
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Feb 19, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #33: a Thomas twins crossover special!
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #32: jobs in books, and Atonement vs On Chesil Beach
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #31: lists, yes or no? and The Fortnight in September vs Greengates
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Jan 02, 2017 |
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Tea or Books? #30: artists vs musicians, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie vs A Far Cry From Kensington
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #29: short stories (yes or no?) and Bricks and Mortar vs Princes in the Land
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #28: scary vs not scary, and The Home-Maker vs The Victorian Chaise-Longue
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #27: cats vs dogs in literature, and Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward vs The Dover Road by A.A. Milne
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #26: give up vs soldier on, and Matilda by Roald Dahl vs Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #25: to adapt or not to adapt, and To The North vs The House in Paris
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #24: careful or manhandle, and The Love-Child vs Lolly Willowes
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #23: keep or cull, and They Came Like Swallows vs Time Will Darken It
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Aug 03, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #22: set in the time vs written in the time, and 84, Charing Cross Road vs Howards End is on the Landing
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #21: children narrators vs adult narrators, and Shakespeare comedies vs tragedies
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Jul 06, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #20: first vs third person and Cider With Rosie vs My Family and Other Animals
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Jun 21, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #19: summer vs winter and The Night Watch vs The Little Stranger
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #18: titles: fancy or simple? and Hercule Poirot vs Miss Marple
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May 23, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #17: diaries vs letters and The Importance of Being Earnest vs The Picture of Dorian Gray
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May 12, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #16: series vs standalones and Winnie the Pooh vs The Wind in the Willows
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #15: plays vs poetry, and Rebecca vs My Cousin Rachel
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #14: reprints vs original editions, and The Time Traveller’s Wife vs Her Fearful Symmetry
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #13: villainous vs virtuous, and One Fine Day vs London War Notes
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #12: happy vs sad endings, and Elizabeth and Her German Garden vs The Enchanted April
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #11: ebooks vs books and Nancy Mitford vs Evelyn Waugh
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #10: Reading Resolutions, yes or no? and Barbara Pym vs Elizabeth Taylor
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Jan 18, 2016 |
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Tea or Books? #9: buy or borrow and Christmas books: yes or no?
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Dec 19, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #8: biography vs autobiography and I Capture the Castle vs Guard Your Daughters
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Dec 02, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #7: Persephone vs. Virago & To The Lighthouse vs. A Room of One’s Own
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Nov 16, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #6: mothers vs fathers in fiction and Dickens on page vs screen
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #5: rural vs urban settings and Pride & Prejudice vs Sense & Sensibility
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #4: American classics vs. British classics and Enid Blyton vs. E. Nesbit
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #3: re-reading vs. new books, and D.E. Stevenson vs. Dorothy Whipple
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Jul 12, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #2: long vs. short books, and The Catcher in the Rye vs. The Go-Between
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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Tea or Books? #1: books in translation vs. books set in other countries, and Emily vs. Charlotte Brontë
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Jun 08, 2015 |