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Sinopsis
Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.
Episodios
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Tea or Books? #28: scary vs not scary, and The Home-Maker vs The Victorian Chaise-Longue
10/11/2016Two Persephone titles will help solace us in these bizarre post-election days. We’ve been away for a while because I lost my voice – sorry! – but Rachel (Book Snob) and I are back, talking about The Victorian Chaise-Longue by
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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
18/10/2016Cats! Dogs! Noel Coward! A.A. Milne! I always start off these descriptions with exclamation marks, but seldom has it been more justified… In this episode, we pit literary cats against literary dogs, and almost instantly regret it (while also
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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
27/09/2016Roald Dahl, Michelle Magorian, and whether or not to give up on books – I’m back from holiday, and Rachel and I have a lovely new (…long) episode of Tea or Books? In our first half, we discuss whether
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Tea or Books? #25: to adapt or not to adapt, and To The North vs The House in Paris
12/09/2016Elizabeth Bowen and novels adapted into films – though not in conjunction… In the first half of this podcast, we discuss novels adapted into films – and whether or not we would like our favourite novels to be adapted
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Tea or Books? #24: careful or manhandle, and The Love-Child vs Lolly Willowes
25/08/2016I have forced two topics on Rachel – firstly, are you careful with books, or do you manhandle them? (It will all make sense in context.) And then two books that were lynch pins of my doctoral thesis – The
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Tea or Books? #23: keep or cull, and They Came Like Swallows vs Time Will Darken It
03/08/2016Two William Maxwell novels go up against each other in this episode – but not before we’ve got to the heart of the emotional issue of whether to keep books or cull books. (Obviously we don’t want to cull
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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
18/07/2016Historical fiction and books-about-books are the themes for episode 22 of Tea or Books? – and we have a LOT to say on these topics. And we hope you do too! Let us know your thoughts for each category. And
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Tea or Books? #21: children narrators vs adult narrators, and Shakespeare comedies vs tragedies
06/07/2016Shakespeare! That’s right, we’re getting very classy and/or GCSE English in our discussion of his comedies and tragedies – following a fairly haphazard chat about child narrators vs adult narrators. This is what happens when Rachel only tells me
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Tea or Books? #20: first vs third person and Cider With Rosie vs My Family and Other Animals
21/06/2016Happy birthday us! We actually passed our birthday by a couple of weeks, but this is the first podcast after the big day. Can you believe it’s been a whole year? And it might be our longest episode yet.
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Tea or Books? #19: summer vs winter and The Night Watch vs The Little Stranger
06/06/2016Sarah Waters and the seasons – how better to celebrate the sunny weather we’ve been having recently? In episode 19 we look at summer and winter in books (and get tangled in what that could mean) and then talk
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Tea or Books? #18: titles: fancy or simple? and Hercule Poirot vs Miss Marple
23/05/2016Agatha Christie and curious titles come together in perhaps my favourite episode of the podcast yet. And also the first one where we’re both in our 30s, guys. And also one of our most bizarre. In the first half, we look at
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Tea or Books? #17: diaries vs letters and The Importance of Being Earnest vs The Picture of Dorian Gray
12/05/2016Letters! Diaries! Oscar Wilde! We’ve got it all – well, those three things – in episode 17 of Tea or Books?, which has taken a bit of time to arrive, for which I apologise. But we are as rambling
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Tea or Books? #16: series vs standalones and Winnie the Pooh vs The Wind in the Willows
19/04/2016Winnie-the-Pooh vs Wind in the Willows is perhaps the most animal-strewn debate we’ve had so far, as well as being more or less inevitable that we’d get to this one eventually – especially given my tendencies to shoe-horn A.A.
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Tea or Books? #15: plays vs poetry, and Rebecca vs My Cousin Rachel
05/04/2016Plays or poetry? We go broad with the first half of our 15th episode, and (inevitably) barely scratch the surface. You wouldn’t have it any other way, right? In the second half, we pit two much-loved novels by Daphne
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Tea or Books? #14: reprints vs original editions, and The Time Traveller’s Wife vs Her Fearful Symmetry
21/03/2016Reprints or original editions? That’s the first question we ask ourselves, courtesy of Michelle of Book Musings, and have a lot of fun discussing it. In the second half of the episode we get uncharacteristically modern – pitting two
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Tea or Books? #13: villainous vs virtuous, and One Fine Day vs London War Notes
08/03/2016Villains or virtuous folk? No, not describing your hosts Rachel (Book Snob) and me, but enquiring into our favourite types of characters. In the second half, we look at two books by Mollie Panter-Downes: One Fine Day and London War Notes,
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Tea or Books? #12: happy vs sad endings, and Elizabeth and Her German Garden vs The Enchanted April
15/02/2016Happy endings? Sad endings? And a couple of Elizabeth von Arnim novels – we have a fun, albeit somewhat sickly episode. It makes me think of my favourite, my-missed sitcom Happy Endings, but we’re actually talking about whether we prefer
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Tea or Books? #11: ebooks vs books and Nancy Mitford vs Evelyn Waugh
03/02/2016Ebooks! Books! Nancy Mitford! Evelyn Waugh! We’ve got it all for you in episode 11, as we turn our attention to the well-worn path of ebooks vs paper books/tree books/real books (whatever you want to call them) and to
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Tea or Books? #10: Reading Resolutions, yes or no? and Barbara Pym vs Elizabeth Taylor
18/01/2016‘Tea or Books?’ is back for the new year – and it starts pretty shambolically, as we can’t remember the episode number. Once that is sorted out, we discuss whether or not we set New Year’s Reading Resolutions,
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Tea or Books? #9: buy or borrow and Christmas books: yes or no?
19/12/2015Welcome to a festive edition of ‘Tea or Books?’ (and another one where I forgot to close my bedroom window when recording) – Rachel (Book Snob) and I discuss buying vs borrowing and whether or not we read specifically