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Yesterday, responders indicated a pretty wide range of times spent enjoying tea on an average day. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.
Today's TeaRoom TeaDay TeaPoll and discussion topic. Time to take just a little break from tea topics. Such days are for getting to know each other a little bit. Are you reading anything interesting currently? Please share.
I am looking forward to sharing TeaDay with everyone. Bottoms up!
Jan 10th, '09, 01:32
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Saturday TeaRoom 1/10/09 Good reads?
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Jan 10th, '09, 02:59
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Gyokuro "Gyoku-Hou"
I am listening to the audio book of Stalin's Ghost a novel by Martin Cruz Smith, reading a book about dementia titled The 36-Hour Day (I am hoping it will help me understand this forum a bit more), and I seem to be constantly reading Cloud's First Step to Chinese Puerh Tea and all the Art of Tea magazines (though I have to confess I find Chinglish a very frustrating read.)
Thanks to Chip for the chance to taste this lovely gyo.
BTW, Chip, I finally broke down and ordered two more of those cute toin travel sets you have.
Thanks to Chip for the chance to taste this lovely gyo.
BTW, Chip, I finally broke down and ordered two more of those cute toin travel sets you have.
1993 Menghai 7542
Recent reads:
John Adams by David McCollough
1776 by McCollough
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History /
33 Questions You Aren't Supposed to Ask About American History
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Hamilton's Curse; How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
Reading now:
The Opium War 1840 - 1842
Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him
Art of Tea 1-4 (the Chinglish doesn't bother me yet, my brain has an aggressive auto-correct feature)
On the list:
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Constitutional Though of Thomas Jefferson
The Brethren (US Supreme Court, Bob Woodward)
Economics 101 (mp3 lectures from the late Murray Rothbard)
Recent reads:
John Adams by David McCollough
1776 by McCollough
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History /
33 Questions You Aren't Supposed to Ask About American History
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Hamilton's Curse; How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
Reading now:
The Opium War 1840 - 1842
Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him
Art of Tea 1-4 (the Chinglish doesn't bother me yet, my brain has an aggressive auto-correct feature)
On the list:
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Constitutional Though of Thomas Jefferson
The Brethren (US Supreme Court, Bob Woodward)
Economics 101 (mp3 lectures from the late Murray Rothbard)
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I am not really reading anything currently - just working on some genealogy stuff in my other spare time, when I have any, ha!
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Jan 10th, '09, 03:34
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Vulture
I am in the middle of books but I read things all the time. Game books (RPG's like DnD), Reference books (for networking), fantasy/sci-fi books (about to start one from L.E.Modesitt Jr.), to just viewpoint books. Waiting on an order of books as part of my Christmas money being spent. Books ordered:
Viewpoint/Philosophy books:
Finite and Infinite Games
Flatland (Read in high school)
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
Sci-fi/Fantasy books:
Treason - By Orson Scott Card (need a second copy, the one I have is an old copy that is out of print and collectible)
Empire and Ecolitan - By Modesitt Jr.
The Soprano Sorceress - By Modesitt Jr.
Furies of Calderon - By Jim Butcher
Drank some Ali Shan earlier, might go for more or change to a different tea.
Viewpoint/Philosophy books:
Finite and Infinite Games
Flatland (Read in high school)
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
Sci-fi/Fantasy books:
Treason - By Orson Scott Card (need a second copy, the one I have is an old copy that is out of print and collectible)
Empire and Ecolitan - By Modesitt Jr.
The Soprano Sorceress - By Modesitt Jr.
Furies of Calderon - By Jim Butcher
Drank some Ali Shan earlier, might go for more or change to a different tea.
I have been reading "La comédie humaine" (Balzac) for about three weeks.
Keemun with my breakfast to start a cold day (-10°C 14°F)
Keemun with my breakfast to start a cold day (-10°C 14°F)
Jan 10th, '09, 04:55
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xuancheng
Listening to The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott from http://www.librivox.org It is interesting what Mark Twain had to say about Scott's influence on the culture of the southern US.
A great website where you can download recordings of books in the public domain for free! I live in a place where it's hard to buy decent books without ordering them online, and this website has been a lifesaver! I am waiting for them to finish recording Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse, who, setting aside Oscar Wilde is the greatest wordsmith who ever wrote in the English language. Wodehouse's most famous character, Bertie Wooster, can't rise of a morning without his personal gentleman's gentleman bringing him a cup of oolong.
Drinking Huang Guanyin (a yancha) and tried a small sample of Hou De's 2007 Rougui.
A great website where you can download recordings of books in the public domain for free! I live in a place where it's hard to buy decent books without ordering them online, and this website has been a lifesaver! I am waiting for them to finish recording Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse, who, setting aside Oscar Wilde is the greatest wordsmith who ever wrote in the English language. Wodehouse's most famous character, Bertie Wooster, can't rise of a morning without his personal gentleman's gentleman bringing him a cup of oolong.
Drinking Huang Guanyin (a yancha) and tried a small sample of Hou De's 2007 Rougui.
Jan 10th, '09, 07:26
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I really like weird history books. Right now I'm finishing up a history of milk by Anne Mendelson. I'm also reading Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Ulrich and I am America (and so can you!) by Stephen Colbert. On my iPhone I'm rereading Voltaire's Candide so that I don't have to carry a book around with me.
Today I'm going to the library to pick up some more things: Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Iliad (which is supposed to be awesome) and the latest by Simon Singh. I also have a feminist reader on the shelf waiting for me. And a history of punk. And the newest Jacqueline Carey novel is on its way to me from Amazon.
I love books.
Today I'm going to the library to pick up some more things: Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Iliad (which is supposed to be awesome) and the latest by Simon Singh. I also have a feminist reader on the shelf waiting for me. And a history of punk. And the newest Jacqueline Carey novel is on its way to me from Amazon.
I love books.
Jan 10th, '09, 09:18
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Currently into vampires and murderers apparently. (I am not a Twilight freak) Reading through all the Sookie Stackhouse novels, the ones HBO's True Blood is based on. Also reading all the Dexter novels, (Showtime) and can honestly say that in both cases the the books are not exactly better than the tv shows, just different.
I have a very long "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke waiting to be read, but as it is more serious and wordy, I need to wait for a time when I can actually focus more.
Having some apple juice with my bagel this morning, I think I might start my TeaDay with some Wuyi.
I have a very long "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke waiting to be read, but as it is more serious and wordy, I need to wait for a time when I can actually focus more.
Having some apple juice with my bagel this morning, I think I might start my TeaDay with some Wuyi.
I have always been a voracious reader, and I usually read two or more books in parallel.
I just finished The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer, a pompous, self-serving and messily unstructured tome with a sprinkle of invaluable insights.
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe gets very good reviews, but it didn't quite strike home with me. I have still to find any book in the fantasy genre to rival The Lord of the Rings. I doubt I ever will.
I also finally got round to reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, causing me to wish I had read it fifteen years earlier, when it was new. It's very good indeed.
Stephenson is currently my favorite author, not least because of the recent Anathem, which made me want to look into certain aspects of consciousness. Specifically, Does the brain use quantum effects? I'm hoping that The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Walker will give me a clue. I'm just starting to read it now.
I just finished The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer, a pompous, self-serving and messily unstructured tome with a sprinkle of invaluable insights.
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe gets very good reviews, but it didn't quite strike home with me. I have still to find any book in the fantasy genre to rival The Lord of the Rings. I doubt I ever will.
I also finally got round to reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, causing me to wish I had read it fifteen years earlier, when it was new. It's very good indeed.
Stephenson is currently my favorite author, not least because of the recent Anathem, which made me want to look into certain aspects of consciousness. Specifically, Does the brain use quantum effects? I'm hoping that The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Walker will give me a clue. I'm just starting to read it now.
Jan 10th, '09, 09:35
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I agree Trey RE: Lord of the Rings...Heh, check out my 'forum name'!
Currently I am reading Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
Allen M Hornblum. This is a scary read with explicit details on to mention a few, dioxin and Virus experiments.
Fave genre is Scifi, but I venture into true crime, gruesome stuff actually.
Macha woman this week, from O-Cha this am Next
Have a FAB TeaDay!
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Currently I am reading Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
Allen M Hornblum. This is a scary read with explicit details on to mention a few, dioxin and Virus experiments.
Fave genre is Scifi, but I venture into true crime, gruesome stuff actually.
Macha woman this week, from O-Cha this am Next
Have a FAB TeaDay!
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