Tea & Books - What are you reading?
Every time I take out a book from the library intending to read it, I return it when the due date comes with only a teensy bit of it finished! I never seem to get around to reading much these days, and I’m wondering how I can begin to fix that… studying for the LSAT always takes priority. :(
Finished ‘Geralds game’. Thanks for the suggestion nycoma, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not sure what to read next
Hi tea sippers and bookworms! Hello @JasonCT! Thanks for bringing up this topic, I absolutely am a book nerd also! No shame!
I love to sip white tea and am looking into autumn harvested white teas more ever since speaking with Nicholas Lozito from Misty Peak Teas and really feeling the difference between spring and autumn harvest. However, I have been sipping for the past month or so Misty Peak Teas’ Autumn Harvest Pu’er more often than my white teas.
Right now I am reading several books (because I am a confessed bookaholic and serial book reader) but if I were to pick my more recent relapses they would be “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and “Little Victories” by Jason Gay.
Keep sipping happily ever after ladies and gents!
I’m reading The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter and I continue to think that one of the characters is named Lapsang. (It’s really Lobsang. But seriously!)
I love Pratchett; earlier this year, I finished reading the last of the Discworld books…I’d read all of them, in order, and enjoyed them all (of course some more than others).
I have only read a few discworld so far because I decided to read them in order and get them from the library. I did enjoy them though, and have read a collection of his essays as well as a few free standing novels. He had a very interesting intellect!
How is the long earth? I’ve only read discworld before. I think finishing my horror run & want some futurism & shiny things
I’m yet to start The Long Earth Trilogy and The Bromeliad Trilogy. Btw, some of his Discworld books have been made into movies, which are worth watching for fans who have read his books. They are also working on producing more movies (Truckers) and TV series (The Watch) based on his books.
I enjoyed The Long Earth after a bit of a slow start. Not sure if it was my preference or the usual difficulty of establishing a different universe. Plot was slightly lacking but I read quickly because I enjoyed the story and just wondered what would come next. I did find there were a few too many characters that I had to try to remember despite not seeing them for 100s of pages, but for fantasy, it wasn’t too bad. I also immediately started the second (The Long War). I have to wait until my brother acquires numbers 3 and 4 before I can read them.
Was excited to find a Brian Jacques Redwall book I hadn’t read yet: Rakkety-Tam (better yet, it was in the dollar bin at Vintage Stock). Got only as far as the prologue last night and couldn’t quit grinning—lots of fuzzy mommy memories reading the series aloud with my son.
I loved the Redwall series, growing up! I can’t wait to read them with my kiddos! (My oldest is only 2, so I have a while!)
Oh, I grew up on Redwall! Those books always made me hungry…all the feasting on amazing-sounding foods you’ve never heard of like dandelion wine and meadowcream tart. :)
Ended up reading the bazaar of bad dreams. It was a good read. A couple of them id read before and the order of the stories wasn’t very well thought out at all (unless that was the point) but there was some good bits in it. Was enjoyed.
There was a really funny part that made me chuckle a lot
While I’m working through some more complicated and dense books, I just started Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series again. Sometimes you just want to be entertained with some easy but masterful writing.
I’m midway through Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward and enjoying it, I think fans of hard sci-fi would love it.
Basically science fiction with more rigorous science (while soft sci-fi can be less realistic scientifically).
Thanks. I’m good with pretty much anything. Unrealistic science doesn’t bother me, but I definitely don’t mind it making sense.
Same here, I enjoy all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy; it does help to understand the gradations within the genre though.
I looked it up in the wiki now and saw that this book is specifically mentioned under hard sci-fi, and also found a ton of suggested reading and viewing stuff there to add to my shortlist!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_science_fiction
Drinking earl grey cream and reading the 3 a.m. Epiphany to combat all this NaNoWriMo writer’s block.
I swear, there is nothing like Earl grey (in any variety) for writing! It’s my go to. I miss NaNoWriMo! Tiny children put a serious damper on writing fun.
I have so many friends from the camp I work at that do NoNoWriMo. Very cool way to get your writer on!
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