Tea or Books?
Simon and Rachel
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Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of reading and books.
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Tea or Books? #104: Do We Care What Characters Dream? and William – an Englishma...
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Tea or Books? #103: Thinking vs Feeling and Moon Tiger vs The Diviners
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Tea or Books? #102: Do We Read Books about Grief? and Five Windows vs Four Garde...
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Tea or Books? #101: Rachel explores Simon’s shelves
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Tea or Books? #100: Q&A Special
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Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans vs The Crowded Street
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Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners
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Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading, and Tension vs Thank Heaven F...
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Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be Republished? and two Barbara Pyms
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Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The Half-Crown...
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Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in M...
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Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson No...
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Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear? and Girl, Woman, Other vs Li...
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Tea or Books? #91: Familiar or Unfamiliar Settings? and Two Elizabeth von Arnim...
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Tea or Books? #90: Good or Bad Reading Year? and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn vs O,...
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Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and Gilead vs Home
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Tea or Books? #88: Blurbs or No Blurbs, and The Remains of the Day vs Never Let...
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Tea or Books? #87: Biographies vs Novels about Real People and Emma by Jane Aust...
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Tea or Books? #86: Empathy vs Sympathy and The Child That Books Built vs When I...
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Tea or Books? #85: One House or Many Houses, and A Thatched Roof vs Fresh From T...
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Tea or Books? #84: Sea vs Mountains and Her Son’s Wife vs Auntie Mame
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Tea or Books? #83: Comfort Zones (Yes or No?) and Two Willa Cather Novels
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Tea or Books? #82: Australia vs New Zealand and two Adrian Bell books
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Tea or Books? #81: Style vs Plot and Living vs Loving by Henry Green
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Tea or Books? #80: Should Authors Only Write What They Know? and Agatha Christie...
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Tea or Books? #79: Political Books (Yes or No?), and The Diary of a Bookseller v...
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Tea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and Two Unfinished Jane Austen N...
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Tea or Books? #77: Fantasy vs Fantastic Fiction and Wine of Honour vs Beneath th...
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Tea or Books? #76: Illustrations (yes or not), and Miss Hargreaves vs Miss Bosto...
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Tea or Books? #75: Moral Readers or Amoral Readers and The Summer Book vs Birthd...
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Tea or Books? #74: YA (yay or nay?) and Stoner vs The Easter Parade
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Tea or Books? #73: One Chance or Many Chances, and Two Margery Sharp Novels
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Tea or Books? #72: Reading at Home vs Reading Elsewhere and The Hours vs Mrs Woo...
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Tea or Books? #71: Multi-Narrative vs Single Narrative, and Period Piece vs A Lo...
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Tea or Books? #70: Simon Takes a Tour of Rachel’s Bookshelves
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Tea or Books? #69: Small World vs Wide World and Blue Remembered Hills vs Season...
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Tea or Books? #68: Tact vs Attack, and North and South vs Pride and Prejudice
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Tea or Books? #67: Books as Gifts: Yes or No, and Little vs Alva & Irva
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Tea or Books? #66: Domestic Books vs Worldly Books and Elizabeth Bowen vs Elizab...
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Tea or Books? #65: cars vs bicycles, and Hons and Rebels vs Tory Heaven
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Tea or Books? #64: WW1 vs WW2 and Coronation vs Love of Seven Dolls
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Tea or Books? #63: First Edition vs Worst Edition and Parnassus on Wheels vs The...
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Tea or Books? #62: Internet vs Bookshop and Mr Pim Passes By vs Four Days’ Wonde...
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Tea or Books? #61: Do We Care What Characters Eat? and The French Lieutenant’s W...
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Tea or Books? #60: married vs unmarried characters, and Miss Pettigrew Lives For...
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Tea or Books? #59: Hard vs Easy Holiday Reading, and We Have Always Lived in the...
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Tea or Books? #58: Book Groups (yes or no), and The Fountain Overflows vs Invita...
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Tea or Books? #57: save vs binge, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd vs The Seven D...
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Tea or Books? #56: Review vs Recommendation and The Lark vs High Wages
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Tea or Books? #55: Versatility vs Dependability and House-Bound by Winifred Peck...
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