128 episodes
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? #128: Do We Read Plays? and Fifty Sounds vs The Housekeeper and the Professor
Polly Barton, Yoko Ogawa, and plays – welcome to episode 128! In the first half of today’s ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, Rachel and I revisit a topic from years ago – plays! Specifically, do we think that plays should be
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Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s Daughter
George Orwell, E.H. Young, guilty pleasures – welcome to episode 127! In the first half of the episode, we ask: what is our guiltiest reading pleasure? Has that changed over time? Do we feel guilty about anything connected with reading?
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Tea or Books? #126: Should Books Be Banned? and Lessons in Chemistry vs Dear Mrs Bird
Banned books, Bonnie Garmus and A.J. Pearce – welcome to episode 126! In the first half of the episode, we discuss banned books – should books ever be banned? Does a book being banned make us want to read it
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Tea or Books? #125: Do We Read Celeb Memoirs? and Day vs Landscape in Sunlight
Celeb memoirs, Michael Cunningham, Elizabeth Fair – welcome to episode 125! In the first half, Rachel and I discuss celebrity memoirs – do we read them? What do we count as a celebrity memoir? In the second half, we each
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Tea or Books? #124: Our Favourite Reads of 2023
Our favourite books from 2023 – or reads, because of course we mostly read ‘backlisted’ titles. Always a fun one to record – this time with the added bonus that we were each going to choose one from the other’s
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Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs Harriet Said…
Beryl Bainbridge, Celia Dale, critical and charitable reading – welcome to episode 123! In the first half of the episode we use a suggestion from Susannah – do we read charitably or critically? In the second half we compare too
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