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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? #75: Moral Readers or Amoral Readers...

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2019/07/16

Tove Jansson, Ted Hughes, and fictional morality – welcome to episode 75! We’re back after a bit of a break – and we’re doing poetry for the first time ever. In the first half of the episode, we discuss

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Tea or Books? #74: YA (yay or nay?) and Stoner vs The...

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2019/06/18

Young Adult fiction – are we fans? And Richard Yates vs John Williams. In the first half of this episode, we venture into potentially controversial territory as we discuss young adult (YA) fiction, and whether or not we think

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Tea or Books? #73: One Chance or Many Chances, and...

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2019/05/16

How many chances will we give an author? And Margery Sharp! In the first half of the episode, we ask whether we’re one-strike-you’re-out people or if we’re willing to give an author several chances – and which authors we’ve

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Tea or Books? #72: Reading at Home vs Reading...

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2019/04/24

Where do we like to read? And books inspired by Virginia Woolf. It’s a very ‘us’ episode. In the first half of this episode, we’re adopting a question suggested by Teddy – reading at home vs reading elsewhere –

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Tea or Books? #71: Multi-Narrative vs Single...

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2019/04/03

Lots of perspectives or a single narrative, and two 19th-century childhood memoirs – here we go! In the first half of this episode, we discuss multi-narrative novels and whether or not we prefer them to single narrative novels. In the

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Tea or Books? #70: Simon Takes a Tour of Rachel’s...

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2019/03/20

Simon visited Rachel – so naturally took a look around the shelves. Come for the tour! In a change from scheduled programming, we do a slightly different episode. I was staying with Rachel in her beautiful flat while I was

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Tea or Books? #69: Small World vs Wide World and Blue...

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2019/02/20

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rosemary Sutcliff, and the scope of the books we love. Happy February! In the first half of this episode, we discuss small world vs wide world in novels – do we like small communities or novels

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Tea or Books? #68: Tact vs Attack, and North and...

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2019/01/29

The books we hate (and should we tell you?) and Elizabeth Gaskell vs Jane Austen. In the first half of this episode, we talk about the books we’ve hated – prepare for things to get contentious! – and

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Tea or Books? #67: Books as Gifts: Yes or No, and...

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2019/01/08

Edward Carey and books as gifts – happy new year; we’re back! We had a bit of a longer break over Christmas, but we’re back and raring to go with a post-Christmas discussion about whether or not we like

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Tea or Books? #66: Domestic Books vs Worldly Books...

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2018/11/27

Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, and venturing into the worldly… In the first half of this episode, we look at… domestic books vs worldly books? Or something like that? We never quite worked out what we meant, but we

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Tea or Books? #65: cars vs bicycles, and Hons and...

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2018/11/08

We are finally back! Apologies for the lengthy break – all is explained in this episode. We’re not back as soon as intended, because we recorded an episode a few days ago that… didn’t record. The podcasters’ nightmare! Nothing

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Tea or Books? #64: WW1 vs WW2 and Coronation vs Love...

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2018/09/12

Paul Gallico and two World Wars – quite a mix! In the first half of this episode, we look at the books of the World Wars – whether written at the time or later – and decide which we

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Tea or Books? #63: First Edition vs Worst Edition and...

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2018/08/28

Women opening bookshops, and how we feel about the physical book. In the first half of this episode, we look at first edition vs worst edition – in a fairly sprawling discussion about whether we care about first editions,

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Tea or Books? #62: Internet vs Bookshop and Mr Pim...

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2018/08/13

Two novels by A.A. Milne and we get deep about Amazon. In the first half, we talk buying books in bookshops vs buying books online – taking our cue from a suggestion by Karen – and then we wander

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Tea or Books? #61: Do We Care What Characters Eat?...

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2018/07/24

John Fowles, Tracy Chevalier, and eating in books – Lyme and limes, if you will! Sorry for a bit of a delay (because I had to read two quite long books) – and advance apologies for the delay before

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Tea or Books? #60: married vs unmarried characters,...

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2018/06/27

This episode is all about married and unmarried people – in general, and two ‘spinsters’ in particular. Buckle up! (Apologies if the podcast in your app overlaps the intro music with the intro chat… this one doesn’t, but I

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Tea or Books? #59: Hard vs Easy Holiday Reading, and...

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2018/06/13

Shirley Jackson and holiday reading – welcome to episode 59! In the first half of this episode, we look at holiday reading – chiefly whether we prefer easy or difficult books when we go off on holiday, but we

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Tea or Books? #58: Book Groups (yes or no), and The...

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2018/05/29

Rebecca West, Rosamond Lehmann, and book groups – welcome to episode 58! I can hardly believe that we’ve not done an episode on book groups before – but here we are! In the first half, Rachel and I talk

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Tea or Books? #57: save vs binge, and The Murder of...

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2018/05/14

Murder mysteries and binge-reading – enjoy episode 57! In this episode, we compare an uncharacteristically modern novel – The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, published in 2018 – with Agatha Christie’s classic Poirot novel The Murder of Roger

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Tea or Books? #56: Review vs Recommendation and The...

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2018/04/23

We’ve finally done the reviewers vs recommendations episode! Also: E Nesbit and Dorothy Whipple. Every now and then, the critics vs bloggers debate rears its head. In the first half of the episode, we take a slightly different look

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