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Yesterday's Advent tea (which I'm drinking right now for reasons) is Gingerbread Green tea and DELICIOUS. Today's is called Jardin Bleu and has rhubarb in it and Mum is incredibly unconvinced *g*
#SeasonsReadings
10. Latest purchase I had to look this one up because anything I've bought recently is a fair way down the pile (which isn't to say I won't move it up... my to read pile is a very flexible thing *g*) ANYWAY it turns out my most recent purchase was an impulse buy at Hatchards (a VERY dangerous place) and it was A Circle of Sisters by Judith Flanders which is about the Macdonald sisters, as the back of the book says, "as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, and the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin." I was intrigued and remain so!
11. Christmas classic Oooooh this is so hard! There are a number of Christmas books I reread (or partially reread) every year. I've got it down to two but I can't pick because they're so different!
Firstly Lanterns Across the Snow by Susan Hill which is such a beautiful book. It tells the story of one Christmas for a little girl who's father is a priest and it deals with life in the countryside and poverty and wealth and new babies and death and I just absolutely adore it and have to read each section on the right day.
Secondly The Father Christmas Letters by JRR Tolkien <3 we used to read these each evening in the run up to Christmas as part of our Advent ring and I've bought copies for so many families. They are the letters Father Christmas wrote to Tolkien's children when they were little and the explain why (during WW2) there weren't so many presents and MOSTLY it's the fault of either the North Polar Bear (and his nephews) or the Goblins... They're all illustrated so beautifully and in later ones he invents a Goblin language and they ARE Christmas to me.
#SeasonsReadings
10. Latest purchase I had to look this one up because anything I've bought recently is a fair way down the pile (which isn't to say I won't move it up... my to read pile is a very flexible thing *g*) ANYWAY it turns out my most recent purchase was an impulse buy at Hatchards (a VERY dangerous place) and it was A Circle of Sisters by Judith Flanders which is about the Macdonald sisters, as the back of the book says, "as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, and the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin." I was intrigued and remain so!
11. Christmas classic Oooooh this is so hard! There are a number of Christmas books I reread (or partially reread) every year. I've got it down to two but I can't pick because they're so different!
Firstly Lanterns Across the Snow by Susan Hill which is such a beautiful book. It tells the story of one Christmas for a little girl who's father is a priest and it deals with life in the countryside and poverty and wealth and new babies and death and I just absolutely adore it and have to read each section on the right day.
Secondly The Father Christmas Letters by JRR Tolkien <3 we used to read these each evening in the run up to Christmas as part of our Advent ring and I've bought copies for so many families. They are the letters Father Christmas wrote to Tolkien's children when they were little and the explain why (during WW2) there weren't so many presents and MOSTLY it's the fault of either the North Polar Bear (and his nephews) or the Goblins... They're all illustrated so beautifully and in later ones he invents a Goblin language and they ARE Christmas to me.