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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? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish...

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2021/04/21

Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margery Sharp, Helen Ashton – welcome to episode 95. In the first half, we take a detour from our usual practice and pit two authors against each other. And it’s two very big hitters – Jane

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Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and...

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2021/03/27

Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White, and authors’ houses – welcome to episode 94! In the first half of this episode, we do a topic suggested by Gillian – do we care where authors live? That is, do we want to visit

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Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are...

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2021/03/01

Summer, Winter, names – welcome to episode 93. In the first half, we ask: ‘Do we care what characters are called?’, looking at the strange and ordinary names that characters are given. In the second half, we compare Tove Jansson’s

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Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear?...

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2021/02/02

Bernadine Evaristo, Kate Atkinson, and clothes – welcome to episode 92. In the first half of the episode, Rachel and I discuss clothes in books – do we care what characters wear? I forgot to mention, but do check out

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Tea or Books? #91: Familiar or Unfamiliar Settings?...

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2021/01/11

Elizabeth von Arnim and settings of novels – welcome to episode 91! In the first half of the novel, we look at the settings of novels, and ask whether we prefer familiar or unfamiliar settings. In the second half, we

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Tea or Books? #90: Good or Bad Reading Year? and A...

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2020/12/13

Betty Smith, Dorothy Evelyn Smith, and a review of our reading years… In the first half, we look back over a very unusual year and ask – was it a good reading year or a bad reading year? We’ve not

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Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and...

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2020/11/10

Marilynne Robinson and gardens – welcome to episode 89! We are scraping the barrel a little in our first half, and arguably repeating ourselves, but please enjoy our musings on gardens. In the second half, after answering a question from

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Tea or Books? #88: Blurbs or No Blurbs, and The...

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2020/09/22

Blurbs and Kazuo Ishiguro – welcome to episode 88! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether we want blurbs – i.e. do we do research on what we’re reading before we pick it up.

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Tea or Books? #87: Biographies vs Novels about Real...

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2020/08/16

Jane Austen, Jane and Mary Findlater, and – it’s episode 87! We recorded this episode a little while ago and I have been lazy at editing – but here we are. Hope you like our lovely new logo, courtesy

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Tea or Books? #86: Empathy vs Sympathy and The Child...

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2020/07/06

Marilynne Robinson, Francis Spufford, empathy and sympathy! Welcome to episode 86, in which we talk about characters we feel empathetic towards and those we feel sympathetic towards. And if you aren’t sure of the distinction, don’t worry, we’ve got that

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Tea or Books? #85: One House or Many Houses, and A...

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2020/06/06

Houses, Miss Read, Beverley Nichols! In the first half of today’s episode, we look at whether we prefer novels that stay in one house or those that go all over the place. In the second half, we explore two novels

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Tea or Books? #84: Sea vs Mountains and Her Son’s...

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2020/05/06

Dorothy Canfield [Fisher], Patrick Dennis, sea, and mountains – episode 84! In the first half of this episode, we talk about novels set in the mountains vs those set by the sea. The classic dichotomy. In the second half,

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Tea or Books? #83: Comfort Zones (Yes or No?) and Two...

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2020/04/06

Comfort zones, comfort novels, and two novels by Willa Cather – welcome to episode 83! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether or not we have comfort zones when it comes to reading –

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Tea or Books? #82: Australia vs New Zealand and two...

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2020/03/09

Australia, New Zealand, and Adrian Bell – welcome to episode 82! In the first half, we do a topic suggested by Lindsay – books by Australians and books by people from New Zealand. And my GOODNESS we don’t know anywhere

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Tea or Books? #81: Style vs Plot and Living vs Loving...

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2020/02/18

Henry Green, style over substance, and some listener questions – here’s episode 81! In the first half of this episode, we discuss style vs substance – or, to put it another way, writing style vs the plot of the novel.

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Tea or Books? #80: Should Authors Only Write What...

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2020/01/12

A couple of Queens of Crime and an important question about what writers should be allowed to write… In the first half of episode 80, we ask if writers should only write what they know – whether that means

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Tea or Books? #79: Political Books (Yes or No?), and...

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2019/12/10

Shaun Bythell, George Orwell, and a whole host of politicians – it’s episode 79! We have a special guest for this episode – my very good friend Lorna, who was meeting Rachel for the first time. We recorded in person

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Tea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and...

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2019/11/14

Sanditon, The Watsons, and a whistle-stop tour of the centuries – we’re back! In the first half of this episode, we take a suggestion from Elizabeth – do we prefer the nineteenth or twentieth century for literature? That’s an

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Tea or Books? #77: Fantasy vs Fantastic Fiction and...

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2019/10/03

World War Two fiction and the difference between fantasy and fantastic fiction – welcome to episode 77! In the first half of this episode, I dive back into the topic of my DPhil and we talk about fantastic and fantasy

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Tea or Books? #76: Illustrations (yes or not), and...

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2019/08/22

Miss Hargreaves! Finally! But also illustrations and a novel by Rachel Malik. In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether or not we want illustrations in our books – taking a little venture to graphic novels on the

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