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Angrboda

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Organic Bolivian Green Tea from A C Perch's

Angrboda drank Organic Bolivian Green Tea by A C Perch's

I was in the mood for green, I decided, because green is good for your eyes. I found this one in the back of the cupboard and it seemed fitting for the mood this evening.

Very nice. Very sencha-y. Me likes.

The real reason, however, for this post is to inform you that the trip report from my holiday is up. Beware it’s image heavy. http://iarnvidia.livejournal.com/2960.html

2010-08-21 14:56:04 -0400

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chrine 2010-08-29 02:44:56 -0400

Hey Angrboda! I noticed in your holiday blog that you mentioned that you prefer to read books originally written in English in English and used amazon.uk as a source for them. I just wanted to mention this awesome online bookseller from the UK that I use. It’s called The Book Depository. There is both a UK and a US website for them although the books come from the same place in the UK for both sites (one is .uk and the other .com). But there can be a price difference on the same book so it pays to check both sites. It’s free shipping all the time for all orders and uses Royal Mail.

chrine 2010-08-29 02:46:23 -0400

Oh and what were the two non-Discworld books you brought?

Angrboda 2010-08-29 03:00:13 -0400

Thanks for the rec, I’ll give it a look. :) Usually I buy from the marketplace on amazon, so I can get stuff really cheap. I don’t really mind them being used. :) I can save a third of the price like that sometimes compared to buying it in a danish bookshop.

The other two were, Stephen Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates, the second book in the Very Frustrating Malazan series. The first book in that series was horribly confusing so I was hoping that the second one might help make things make sense, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I’m considering giving up, but I haven’t decided yet. The first one was so frustrating at time it has bitemarks. No, really.
The other one was Kevin J. Anderson’s, Terra Incognita, the first book in the series. I thought it looked intereting and I had considered it before, so I decided to give it a try. I just read the first chapter yesterday, and I have to say it looks really really promising. (And WAY easier to read than SE!)

Angrboda 2010-08-29 03:01:22 -0400

Sorry, the series is called Terra Incognita, the actual title of the book is The Edge of the World

chrine 2010-08-30 14:44:41 -0400

Oh yeah, I’m not sure if The Book Depository does used books. I don’t think so though. I was just thinking about the free shipping. I usually buy used books for the most part too. I like this website Better World Books, which is very eco-friendly (they pay the shipping for you to send them your used books and if they can’t sell them or donate them, they recycle them, and you can carbon offset your shipping). They do do used books and also have free shipping, but I don’t know if they ship or ship free outside the US, which doesn’t help you much.

I hadn’t heard of either of those books, but I looked them up. I don’t read much fantasy, I used to read some at one point. Actually, I shouldn’t say that. I’m currently reread The Hobbit, which is prolly technically fantasy.

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Okay. Ang prefers black teas and the darker sorts of oolongs. She has to be in the mood for green and white and she enjoys, but knows little to nothing about, pu-erh.

Her preferences with black teas are the Chinese ones, particularly from Fujian, but also Keemun and just about anything smoky. She occasionally enjoys Yunnans but they’re not favourites.

She is sceptical about Indian blacks as she generally finds them too astringent and too easy to get wrong. She doesn’t really care for Darjeelings at all.

She likes flavoured teas as well, particularly fruit flavoured ones, but also has an obsession with finding the Perfect Vanilla Flavoured Black.

However, she thinks Earl Grey is generally kind of boring. Cinnamon and ginger are also not really a hit, and she’s not very fond of chais. Evil hibiscus is evil. Even in small amounts, and yes, Ang can usually detect hibiscus, mostly by way of the metallic flavour of blood it has.

Ang is not super impressed with rooibos or honeybush. She doesn’t care for either, really, but when they are flavoured, there have been known to be surprising exceptions to this rule.

Ang has a number of teas that she regards her Standard Panel and will always try to have on hand.
-Lapsang Souchong, any brand really, but preferably AC Perchs.
-Blackberry flavoured black or similar, any brand.
-Late Summer Blend, AC Perchs
-Raspberry Oolong, AC Perchs OR Red Fruits Oolong, Le Palais des Thes
-Caramel, Kusmi OR Toffee, Le Palais des Thes
-Something orange flavoured, black or pu-erh, any brand.
-Tan Yang Te Ji, Teaspring OR Bai Lin Gongfu, Teavivre
-A good Keemun, any brand.
-The Perfect Vanilla Black if and when she ever finds it…

Angrboda is almost always open to swapping. Just ask her.

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