Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners
Nature writing and some favourite novels by prizewinning women – welcome to episode 98! As mentioned in the podcast – we’d love to hear your questions...
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Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.
Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading, and Tension vs Thank Heaven Fasting
How do we choose our reading, and E.M. Delafield – welcome to episode 97! In the first half of the episode, we debate whether to read spontaneously ...
Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be Republished? and two Barbara Pyms
In this episode, we ask whether or not offensive books should be republished – you might remember the same conversation happening here on StuckinaBook...
Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The Half-Crown House
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 ...
Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in May
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 – ...
Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson Novels
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 ordinar...
Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear? and Girl, Woman, Other vs Life After Life
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 w...
Tea or Books? #91: Familiar or Unfamiliar Settings? and Two Elizabeth von Arnim novels
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...
Tea or Books? #90: Good or Bad Reading Year? and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn vs O, The Brave Music
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...
Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and Gilead vs Home
Marilynne Robinson and gardens – welcome to episode 89! We are scraping the barrel a little in our first half, and arguably repeating ourselves, but p...