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Tea or Books?

Simon and Rachel

Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.

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Tea or Books? #115: Do We Like Books About Bookshops?...

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2023/04/17

Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and bookshops – welcome to episode 115! In the first half of the episode, we take up Sally’s suggestion of topic – and discuss whether or not we like books set in bookshops and libraries. More

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Tea or Books? #114: Linear vs Non-linear Narratives...

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2023/03/20

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen, linear narratives – welcome to episode 114! In the first half of this episode, we use a suggestion from listener Sarah – do we prefer linear or non-linear narratives? In the second half we look

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Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings?...

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2023/02/15

Elizabeth Gaskell, Winifred Holtby, and more – welcome to episode 113! In the first half of this episode, we look at literary retellings – by which we mean authors using fairy tales or Greek mythology or basically whatever we fancy

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Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were...

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2023/01/11

Dorothy Whipple, May Sinclair, and favourite books of 2022 – welcome to episode 112! Happy new year! Welcome to the first episode of Tea or Books? for 2023 – recorded on two different days, so hopefully it’s not too awkward.

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Tea or Books? #111: Do We Care What Characters Look...

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2022/12/08

Molly Keane, M.J. Farrell, and characters’ appearances – welcome to episode 111! In the first half, Rachel and I discuss what characters look like – do we care, do we notice if it’s mentioned, etc. In the second half, we

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Tea or Books? #110: Do We Care Where Characters Work?...

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2022/11/06

Tove Jansson, Celia Dale, jobs in books! Welcome to episode 110 A bit of a longer break than usual because I lost my voice. But we’re back, asking – in the first half of the episode – whether we care

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Tea or Books? #109: Boarding House Novels vs Living...

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2022/10/03

Penelope Lively, Helen Hull, boarding houses and isolation – welcome to episode 109! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I compare boarding houses novels and novels where people live alone – up to and including complete isolation.

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Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late...

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2022/08/27

Bite, E.M. Delafield, Elizabeth Taylor – welcome to episode 108! In the first half of this episode, we discuss a topic suggested by Gina – do we prefer books with bite or without bite? All will be explained in due

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Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read?...

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2022/08/04

Books in books and Stella Gibbons – welcome to episode 107! In the first half, we continue our ‘do we care…’ series with ‘do we care what characters read?’ By which we mean we’re looking at the books that characters

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Tea or Books? #106: Book or Movie First, and The...

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2022/07/11

Margaret Kennedy, Vita Sackville-West, and film adaptations – welcome to episode 106! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I discuss whether you should read the book before you watch the film. In the second half, we pit

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Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families...

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2022/06/09

George Orwell and families – welcome to episode 105! Rachel is busy this month, so I put a shout-out on our Patreon page to see if anybody would be willing to step in and take her place. I was delighted

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Tea or Books? #104: Do We Care What Characters Dream?...

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2022/05/10

Olivia Manning, Cicely Hamilton and dreams – welcome to episode 104 of ‘Tea or Books?’! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I discuss whether or not we like dreams in books, and how different authors use them.

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Tea or Books? #103: Thinking vs Feeling and Moon...

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2022/04/11

Penelope Lively, Margaret Laurence, thinking and feeling – welcome to episode 103! Apologies for the unexpected delay in recording. Blame Rachel! But we are here and raring to go. In the first half, we follow a topic suggested by Mairad

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Tea or Books? #102: Do We Read Books about Grief? and...

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2022/02/02

D.E. Stevenson, Margery Sharp – and a special guest! In this episode, we have a special guest in the form of Claire – you’ll know her blog The Captive Reader. We were delighted to have her as a guest, especially

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Tea or Books? #101: Rachel explores Simon’s shelves

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2022/01/07

Rachel takes a look at Simon’s bookshelves – will she take any books away with her?? Way back in episode 70, I was in Rachel’s flat in London and took a look around her bookcases. We planned a return visit…

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Tea or Books? #100: Q&A Special

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2021/12/09

For our special hundredth episode, Rachel and I are doing a question and answer. Thanks so much to everybody who sent in questions – we didn’t get to all of them, but hopefully we answered at least one of yours.

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Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans...

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2021/11/16

Winifred Holtby, Susan Glaspell, and essays – welcome to episode 99! Sorry for an unintended long break, but we’re back and Rachel even has a new mic – hopefully has helped with the sound issues, though there may be some

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Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and...

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2021/09/14

Nature writing and some favourite novels by prizewinning women – welcome to episode 98! As mentioned in the podcast – we’d love to hear your questions as we gear up for our hundredth episode. Just email teaorbooks@gmail.com, or put your

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Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading,...

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2021/08/09

How do we choose our reading, and E.M. Delafield – welcome to episode 97! In the first half of the episode, we debate whether to read spontaneously or plan our reading. In the second half, two E.M. Delafield novels

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Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be...

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2021/06/14

In this episode, we ask whether or not offensive books should be republished – you might remember the same conversation happening here on StuckinaBook a while ago, and it was interesting to visit it with Rachel. In the second half,

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