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Tea Lust
My fellow/sister/whatevers, I confess: I have lust in my heart. I want two binchas of tea that will cost more than I afford at the moment…but…but…one is ON SALE and they sound sssssssooooo mouthwatering….and I can get 10-percent off …and I haven’t bought ANY pu’er in SUCH a long long long long time….oh, fuck, somebody shoot me before I talk myself into buying these! While we’re talking tea and ruinous expense, I also have my eye on some Camellia Crassicolumna Black, a rare and little-known yabao from Qianjiazhai, China for those times when you want tea but no caffeine. And I’m thinking about a new Yixing pot for blacks, b/c I’ve gone back to blacks, thanks to the wonderful He family in Laoshan. Of course, I can’t get a Yixing pot for what I could, say 20 years ago. Now it’s going to cost me dearly. But one must sacrifice for fine tea. I’ll get one this winter. I know the artist I want to buy from. He makes truly amazing pots.
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End Of Watch By Stephen King
This ends the Bill Hodges trilogy started with Mr. Mercedes and continued in Finders Keepers. Like many of King’s books, I found it to be a good read, compelling enough to keep me interested, and it was certainly dark, which I like. But this was not a great book, nothing that is going to change your life or make you think about the nature of evil, etc. Once you finish close the cover, you pretty much forget it. I don’t like to leave things unfinished and had read the first two-just b/c my library at time was REALLY low on new books (see my entry entitled “Abibliophobia”) so just HAD to read this one to round out the series. I’d say read it if you like dark mystery type novels that aren’t going to challenge you over much. Typical King fare, ho-hum.
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Children Of Earth And Sky By Guy Gavriel Kay-A Review
I hadn’t expected to LIKE this book as much as I did, but let me say that I found it to be a very good way to spend a Friday night! Ideally, of course, the night would have been colder with a fierce thunderstorm, as this book just begs for the reader to be ensconced somewhere warm sipping a cuppa ! I simulated these conditions with my AC, crawled in bed with my whippet, and entered the world of Senjan, Seressa, and Dubrava. Kay provides interesting characters, intrigue worthy of the Borgias, and a dog! (My whippet thought the dog was a very nice touch!) I was a fantasy reader when younger but fell out of the habit. Guy Gavriel Kay might persuade me to begin again, starting with his novels!
