Tea & Books - What are you reading?

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I’m more just trying to get around to reading it but I have a copy of Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling on my desk. When I was younger I read books like other people watch TV shows but now I’m slightly addicted to the internet and have trouble reading over 1000 words as one set. It’s kind of pathetic, really. I’ll check back in once I do.

LuckyMe said

I think the internet has had that effect on everyone to some degree. I don’t even have the attention span for TV shows anymore because I’m so accustomed now to watching short Youtube clips and being able to fast forward steaming media.

I still like to read fiction but have less time for it with the internet consuming most of my free time.

mtchyg said

Yeah this is absolutely a thing. I hate it.

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JESLY JOSE said

My all time favorite is investigation series . I love reading it taking a sip of tea. That is a wonderful experience for me.

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Glad to see this discussion is still around! I haven’t checked in for awhile, so here’s a list of things I’ve read lately… and by lately, I mean over the last several months…ok, maybe over the last year, LOL, but I should say here that I am almost always reading more than one book at a time. These are the books I’ve actually completed.

A Wrinkle In Time – yes, I read this book 1000 times when I was 8, it launched my love of scifi and fantasy, but it’s been a long time, and the movie is FINALLY coming out (it better be good), so I had to read it again, just as a refresher. My sister also loved this book so much that she named her cat Ms. Whatsit (actually, I think that might also be her steepster name, now that I think about it), and her son Calvin. Anyway, it is, of course, a quick read.

The Wildwood Way & Seasons of the Sacred Earth, both by Cliff Seruntine – wonderful real life tales of a family homesteading in Nova Scotia, filled with folk tales, woods lore, and more. I loved both of these books, and also am a fan of Cliff’s blog

A Knitter’s Almanac – An excellent resource for knitters everywhere

Slow Knitting – to be honest, this book seems to be more like an advertisement for small scale yarn houses. There were some patterns, but none of them interested me.

The Talisman & Black House (Talisman 2) by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I’m a SK fan from back in the 70’s, and I can’t believe I hadn’t read these 2!

The entire Dark Tower Series, LOL. Yes, I heard they were making a movie, so I read them all, back to back, even though I had read them before. I actually thought the movie was great, BTW. They did everything they could to cover so much & make the story feel somewhat complete, and anybody who has read these books, and understands how much of a part of his overall multiverse they encompass, should also understand that the movie would have to be different from the books, but with the same underlying principals.

I also re-read The Shining, Dr. Sleep, It, and Salem’s Lot by SK. I am a person who enjoys re-reading books (I re-read all the Game of Throne books every time he comes out with a new one)

The Inheritance Trilogy & The Broken Earth series (books 1 & 2) – by NK Jemison – interesting stuff!

The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin! Wow, I’ve always loved Vampire stories, but this one put an incredible twist on the entire thing, at least for me.

The entire Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan… I think I read the first few books back in the day (like when they first came out…), but I heard a movie might be in the works, so…

No wonder I never get anything done!

gmathis said

I’ve read several of Madeline L’Engle’s grownup books, but never got around to the kid stuff. Need to remedy that!

Awesome choices Terri… a bunch of these are waiting on my shelves. I also adored Wrinkle in Time as a kid. One of those books I was constantly reading.

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Lynxiebrat said

Finished:

The Genius Plague by David Walton*
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovich (Rivers of London,#1.)
The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey*
Relentless by Dean Koontz*

Current reads:
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (Sequel to Six of Crows.)*
Foundation-England’s history up until the Tudors, part of a 4 part series by Peter Ackroyd
Half the World-Shattered Sea series, #2. By Joe Abercrombie*
Grace and Grit: My fight for equal pay and fairness at Goodyear a nd beyond-Lilly Ledbetter

Asterisk for the books I would recommend

Next on the docket:
I see you made an effort-Annabelle Gurwitch
Inventing the Middle Ages-Norman F.Cantor
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying circumnavigation of the Globe-Laurence Bergreen
Sarum-Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
The Children of Kings-Darkover novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross
Say Goodbye-Lisa Gardner

Also hoping to get Smoke gets in your eyes by Caitlin Doughty from the library.

mtchyg said

Funny, I read Midnight Riot about 9 months ago (around the time of this posting). What did you think?

Lynxiebrat said

I didn’t like it as much as I had hoped I would…not really sure why though, maybe because of alot of urban fantasy that I’ve been reading last few years doesn’t have the same depth that I like… (Urban Fantasy is my favorite sub-genre, so I’m bit of a snob about it, lol! Not intending on giving up on it though!!!

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Katie said

Reading the Sapiens : )

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gmathis said

It’s strictly cotton candy fluff, but I just finished “The Grand Sophy” by Georgette Heyer—a Regency-era romance written in 1950. Tea, crumpets, preposterously stuffy drawing rooms, funny mismatched couples, all getting precisely sorted out in the end. I’m going to have to chase some more of hers down—Georgette was quite prolific.

Tamarindel said

I love that book! Even though the guy Sophy ends up with remains kind of stuffy throughout.

gmathis said

Aww, she’ll set him straight in no time ;) Liked it enough I’ve put Miz Georgette on my used-bookstore radar.

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LuckyMe said

Finished reading the “The Fault in Our Stars.” I usually don’t care for YA fiction, but this was a really well written story told by a teenager dying of cancer. Debating whether or not to watch the movie.

The movie was good!

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Max Weldam said

Currently reading Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day which is a beautiful challenging novel. Not going very fast but enjoying every bit of it.

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I just started Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. Planning to read the rest of the Outlander series over the summer.

carol who said

Seriously… it could all summer and beyond if you read all the spin-offs. Great series!

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mtchyg said

Currently reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Wow, a really great and intense read so far. Definitely pairing some ripe puerh with this book ;)

Inkling said

That was such an interesting, mind-bending read!

mtchyg said

Absolutely. Almost done with it. I’ve been reading it to my wife for our book club and it has been hard to put down.

Lynxiebrat said

I liked that one, even though paralell universes generally aren’t my cup of tea…;) I thought that Mr. Crouch did a fairly good job, and didn’t get predictable.

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