happy book news
Wow - for Terry Pratchett fans, it has been an awesome few days:
* a tv mini series of Good Omens (with collaboration with NG, of course) was announced.
* another CityWatch novel is at the copyeditors.
* efforts to bring a CityWatch tv series to the screen is underway.
Now, of course, the question is to those of us in the US is availability - since Prime Focus is the producer of both tv series.
But still, may I have a big HUZZAH?! I thought so.
27. - 29. Soulless, Changeless and Blameless books 1-3 of Alexis Tarabotti/Parasol Protectorate series. I have no regrets buying these books twice (one in paper twice - the first copy which went out on a happy journey around the metro DC area; the second two in ebook; then all three in paper) because they were just as enjoyable in a second reading. And I suspect, will be whenever I go to read them again - as I am sure I will. Gail Carriger crafts a highly enjoyable group of characters and breaks what could be just another bland supernatural fantasy novel by blending them in the moral.. dangers of Victorian society; with just enough steampunk elements to keep it interesting.
30.
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink from China and Changed World History by Sarah Rose
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A very well-written an interesting narrative that explores the surprising role that tea had in international commerce and international relations - particularly its ties with the East India Company, and the British Empire.
While it is difficult for anyone with even a passing knowledge of history to NOT know that tea played an defining role in the British Empire, this book explores how complex tea helped fuel the Opium roles, create some of the fastest clipper ships to ever sail, and ultimately, help finance - and eventually help cause the downfall - of the largest and most powerful corporation in the Western world. And how one extraordinary gardener led one of the most world-changing acts of industrial espionage known - and reshaping tea cultural as we known by transplanting out of the control of China and into India, directly into the control of the British Empire.
Fascinating story - and I have been looking at the all my loose leafs teas a bit differently now. (Ah-ha Assam! You are quite not what you seem, are you?)
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* a tv mini series of Good Omens (with collaboration with NG, of course) was announced.
* another CityWatch novel is at the copyeditors.
* efforts to bring a CityWatch tv series to the screen is underway.
Now, of course, the question is to those of us in the US is availability - since Prime Focus is the producer of both tv series.
But still, may I have a big HUZZAH?! I thought so.
27. - 29. Soulless, Changeless and Blameless books 1-3 of Alexis Tarabotti/Parasol Protectorate series. I have no regrets buying these books twice (one in paper twice - the first copy which went out on a happy journey around the metro DC area; the second two in ebook; then all three in paper) because they were just as enjoyable in a second reading. And I suspect, will be whenever I go to read them again - as I am sure I will. Gail Carriger crafts a highly enjoyable group of characters and breaks what could be just another bland supernatural fantasy novel by blending them in the moral.. dangers of Victorian society; with just enough steampunk elements to keep it interesting.
30.
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink from China and Changed World History by Sarah Rose
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A very well-written an interesting narrative that explores the surprising role that tea had in international commerce and international relations - particularly its ties with the East India Company, and the British Empire.
While it is difficult for anyone with even a passing knowledge of history to NOT know that tea played an defining role in the British Empire, this book explores how complex tea helped fuel the Opium roles, create some of the fastest clipper ships to ever sail, and ultimately, help finance - and eventually help cause the downfall - of the largest and most powerful corporation in the Western world. And how one extraordinary gardener led one of the most world-changing acts of industrial espionage known - and reshaping tea cultural as we known by transplanting out of the control of China and into India, directly into the control of the British Empire.
Fascinating story - and I have been looking at the all my loose leafs teas a bit differently now. (Ah-ha Assam! You are quite not what you seem, are you?)
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