Tag: tea
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Continental Breakfast for Two, si’l vous plait…
If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be? “Only in England is the coffee so atrocious. On the Continent they understand how important it is for the digestion that it should be properly made.” The Big Four, Hercule Poirot on English coffee Before I retired from teaching middle school English,…
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Book Review: The Masala Chai Mystery Club by MJ Soni
This cozy mystery should get an award for inclusivity! It ticks off all the boxes: gender, ethnicity, age, disabled/abled, economic status, it’s all in there. Was it too much? Maybe. At the beginning it was a whole lot being thrown at the reader. I’ve seen reviews that say the first 20% or so was slow…
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Fits Me to a Tea
I’m thrilled to share my essay about my love of tea and my Scottish heritage recently published in Tea Zine, a Scottish print and online publication! This one is very special to me! https://coinoperatedpress.bigcartel.com/product/the-tea-zine
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The Second Mrs. de Winter, to be or not to be?
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? As an avid reader my whole life, I have many “favorite books” and the list of the top ten continues to change and evolve over the decades and years of my reading life. The same 2 or 3 titles…
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Fits Me to a Tea
What’s your dream job? Lucky me, I married into a Louisiana restaurant family, and even better, a family who owned a restaurant I had been patronizing long before I met my husband. After we became a couple, I was allowed “in the back” as we always entered through the screen door to the kitchen. The…
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Book Review: Here After by Amy Lin
I checked this book out from the new release shelf at my local public library, Aspen Hill Public Library of Montgomery County, MD, and I must admit I was drawn to it by its size and cover. It is a hardback, but it is a non-traditional size, more of the size of a diary or…
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Book Review: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods (a/k/a Evie Gaughan)
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris is my second book by Evie Woods, although I am a bit confused whether #2 is the chicken or the egg. I loved her first (?) book, The Lost Bookshop. It was the perfect blend of a dual timeline, half contemporary and half historical, with a dash of…
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Book Review: An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder by Dianne Freeman
The “good news:” This gorgeous cover (you had me at “art” and “Paris”) made me snatch this book right off the shelf at my local library (shout out to Aspen Hill Library, a branch of Montgomery County Public Libraries, Montgomery County, Maryland). It had been a long week and I was needing to read my…
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Book Review: I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
In preparing for a trip overseas this past summer, I purchased a few ebooks for my Kindle. I wanted to be sure that once I boarded the plane, I had some choices of what I could read. Sophie Kinsella’s book I’ve Got Your Number was one of those books. I ended up reading this towards…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 