Virtual Literary Tea Party

[forestofglory]

Please tell me about a book you love and hot beverage you enjoy.

Sunday I was over at my parents house and I brought back my copy of Skating Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (aka White Boots). Her shoes books are comfort reading for me. I first read most of them as a child, borrowing them form the public library. I can still picture were on the shelf they were in the old library building. I have been collecting them, since they go in and out a print and I think I currently own all of them. It is nice to have this one back living with me. (I've been wanting to re-read for a bit since qain talked about it a few months ago.)

My go to hot drink is peppermint tea. It goes well with all kind of things and is good hot or cold. (I am sometimes bad a let my tea get cold, most tea's aren't drinkable in this state but peppermint is.)

Comments

[kaberett]

My absolute go-to hot drink is rooibos tea bags. If I'm feeling a step more complicated, it's my loose-leaf jasmine-apricot-rooibos; and one more than that, hot chocolate. Having said which, I'm drinking a lot of chamomile at the moment.

Diana Wynne Jones is probably my go-to for comfort reading at the moment.

[alexseanchai]

Jean's Faith in Humanity chocolate chip tea from Adagio. I think I was scrolling through the fandom sets and saw a tea that said 'chocolate chip' and bought it, and I do not regret this in the least. I have no idea what fandom it's from, though.

I'm really enjoying a reread of Lynn Flewelling's Tamir Triad; I finished The Bone Doll's Twin a couple days ago and am partway through Hidden Warrior now; the third is The Oracle's Queen. Created-world fantasy, destined ruler overcoming usurper, all that good stuff. I insist it's a trans narrative, but I'm not sure our lead is a trans character. The treatment of queerness sucks, but the treatment of sexism is fascinating.