Books and Teas Please

Just a God loving tree hugging book reading hippie. Full time wife, mother, and bibliophile. Books, tea, coffee, cats, and Scentsy: Life is good.

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Where are my tea drinkers at??? 🙋‍♀️ What's on your menu? Today is INSANELY beautiful outside! Since hubby is working from home (thankfully 🙌) he was able to join the girls and I for a lunch time picnic in the backyard 😊 Now if only they would go to 😴 so I can 📖 #bookstagram #reading #books #readersofinstagram #reading #bookworm #booknerd #bookgeek #tea #teadrinker #bannedbooks #readbannedbooks #frostbeardstudio #frostbeardmpls #frostbeardrep2020 #frostbeardshare #frostbeardcandles #madhatter #teaparty #wereallmadhere #teaandbooks #tealover #bookjournal #succulents #booksandteasplease https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sOcLWgvxk/?igshid=1o1gxuox1ekmt

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Some covers from this weekend’s book haul. Vintage Penguin Classics covers.

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Bookmarks!

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I wrote about one of these books today at macrolit.books on Instagram. (How’s that for a teaser?) :P Check it out, and please add me while you’re there. :)

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Not at all!  And sometimes it can open you up to some great experiences – my dad is a slow reader, but he loves books, so he and my mother have regular story time; she reads to him and does all the voices, too. (I just turned them on to Naomi Novik’s Temeraire books!)

Happy reading!

Petra

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All reading is good reading!

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It doesn’t matter how you read or what you read! All reading is good reading!

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i love this place

[callmepastah]

Carry on by Rainbow Rowell

( Bookstagram: milibreriam )

[foreverlostinliterature]

American Book Center | Amsterdam

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This is where I work! (Not usually in Amsterdam, but in the ABC in The Hague.) So surreal to randomly come across it on Tumblr.

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Library Görlitz Germany

© J. Hulsch

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@gisforgeorgina

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By: Olga

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I wonder who it was who defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

—  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Every Queen Song In Good Omens (& Why There Are So Many)

Why are there so many Queen songs in the soundtrack of Good Omens? Apart from Queen being awesome?

“Bohemian Rhapsody” is used the most, particularly in the first episode, with the demon Crowley (David Tennant) arriving at his meeting to discuss the coming of the Anti-Christ as Freddie Mercury sings that “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.” Snatches of the song can also be heard as Crowley receives his orders on where to deliver the infant Anti-Christ and his arrival at the hospital, which is set to “It’s A Hard Life”. The song shows up again at the end of episode 5 and the start of episode 6 (though different clips are used) when Crowley dramatically arrives at the USAF base where the end of the world starts, at the wheel of his burning Bentley.

Episode 2 plays “Bicycle Race” in the background of Crowley’s car, as he gives a lift to bicycle-riding witch Anathema Device, after the two collide with one another. Episode 5 opens with Crowley racing through the streets of London to “You’re My Best Friend,” as he tries to reach the book shop run by his best friend, the angel Aziraphale. When Crowley discovers the shop is on fire and concludes that someone has killed Aziraphale, he emerges from the flames to Queen’s gospel-inspired hit “Somebody To Love,” having finally come to grips with his feelings for the angel.

“Another One Bites The Dust” is used in episode 5 of Good Omens, as Crowley becomes stuck in traffic on the M25 freeway around London and “I’m In Love With My Car” blasts forth as Crowley drives through the wall of fire surrounding London. Queen’s power ballad, “We Will Rock You,” plays as Crowley and his flame-engulfed Bentley “rock the world” of an unfortunate neighborhood watchmen in the village of Tadfield, whom Crowley asks for directions while seemingly unaware that his car is on fire. Finally, a brass band can be heard playing “Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” as Crowley and Aziraphale meet in the park just before their respective abductions.

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4 years ago, we raised our wands and said goodbye to a legend...

Rest in peace Alan Rickman.

(February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016)