Tea or Books?

Angela Milne, Theodora Benson, and reading deeply – welcome to episode 131 of Tea or Books?!

In the first half of the episode, we discuss a topic suggestion by Heidi – do we read deeply or shallowly? Do we like critical editions? Or do we just ‘switch off’ and enjoy? In the second half, we pit two British Library Women Writers titles against each other – Which Way? by Theodora Benson and One Year’s Time by Angela Milne.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The Spring House by Cynthia Asquith

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

A.S. Byatt

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Mary Lawson

The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay

The Heir by Vita Sackville-West

The House by the Sea by May Sarton

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Beverley Nichols

Shirley Jackson

Buttercups and Daisies by Compton Mackenzie

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins

Concert Pitch by Theodora Benson

The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett