Hey there, Kazen here, and welcome back to Always Doing.
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Today for vlogmas I have
a tag for you guys. It is the Time for Tea and Books Tag. Nobody tagged me but I saw
Priscilla over at Bookie Charm do it and I knew I had to do it right away.
The original is by Beth over at Butterfly Elephant Books and I will be
linking both of those lovely ladies below, and let's get right into the questions.
Question one: choosing your tea. What kinds of genres do you tend to lean
towards, and what kinds of tea? I'm a mood reader, and so I could be reading one of
many different things at any particular time. But it's rare for a month to go by
without me reading at least one romance, so let's go with romance. In romance I
tend towards historical and some contemporary. I'm a bit more picky with
my contemporary. And paranormal which I haven't been reading a lot of lately but
I really need to get back into. As far as tea goes I usually start my morning with
something green. This is genmaicha, which is sometimes called popcorn tea
because it has the roasted rice in it and some of them pop. I also really like
karigane which is a stem tea, and it's a kind of a specialty here where I
am now. I live in a tea growing region. I still don't believe it. I can drink local
tea! I mean who can do that? Well, everyone in Japan, but still! In the afternoon I
tend towards black tea. I love making a proper stovetop chai. I'm going to leave
a recipe down below for my favorite blend of spices that you can use to make
your own stovetop chai. And that just, it warms my soul. I love it. Question two: hot
water. What books made you feel gripped by the
main character's plight? And do you prefer hot tea or cold tea? One book that
kept me gripped about the main character's plight is An Extraordinary
Union by Alyssa Cole. This series is about Loyal League, which is people from
the north that are basically spying in the south to help win the Civil War.
In this book Elle is a former slave. She's a black woman that's living in the
north but she goes back down to the south to pretend to be a slave to spy on
particular people and things. And the entire situation she is in, it's just
so, "waaah, what's gonna happen?" The plotting is really well done and she ends up
meeting Malcolm, who is also working for the causes of the north while appearing
to be from the south. So they get together and he's a real charmer
so she doesn't feel like she can trust him. Obviously, because he's kind of like
that player kind of guy. But they become a team and end up working
together and go through a whole bunch of adventure-y type stuff on the way to their
happily ever after. Another book that kept me gripped is Love and Gravity by
Samantha Sotto. I ended up giving it three stars but it was a 24 hour read for me.
I could not put it down. It's a story of a woman who ends up finding, like, a kind of
time slip and ends up in the life of Sir Isaac Newton as he's doing his things
back in the day. And there's a lot of bits that play with time and the plot
kept me interested. If you're interested in this book do check out a link to my
Goodreads review down below, because I use the spoiler tags extensively and
while there's a lot of things I like, there's also a lot of things that irked me.
And so it's a really interesting book in that sense, but whatever you say about
however many stars I gave it at the end, I had to finish it once I started. It was
such a quick read in that way. And whether I prefer hot or iced tea. I
really love hot tea. I will drink hot tea in the middle of summer. That doesn't
mean I don't like iced tea, I do, but I would much rather drink hot tea no
matter the time of year. Question three: brew time. What book
improved for you over reading and rereading? And the tea question is how
much milk do you add. As I've said in recent videos I am not a big rereader,
but a book I know that will improve for me on rereadings is Asymmetry by Lisa
Halliday. I feel like this book didn't get a lot of attention on booktube or
even on blogs or very many places, but it is getting recognition in all kinds of
end of year lists, best book of the year sort of things. It's fiction told in
three parts. The first part is about a May/December romance between a young
book editor and an old, established, much-lauded author
and their relationship. And the second part is about an American-Iraqi man who
is being held at Heathrow Airport as he's trying to go back to Iraq for
reasons. And the third part is a throwback to the first part in that the
author is talking to a radio interviewer and the conversation that they have there.
While the book is readable and it's not hard to get through in any
particular way, I felt like there were lots of Easter eggs and little kinds of
hints and things thrown in at particular parts... well through the entire thing, that
I didn't pick up the first time around. There are themes that are built on the
theme of asymmetries in many many different ways. The theme, there's some
very meta parts about, can you write about someone that is not yourself?
And the author apparently had an affair with Philip Roth and so that's the basis of
the May/December love affair in the first part. So she's writing from her own
experience for the first part, but the second part from the Iraqi-American man
is so different. And there's a lot of meta talk in there about whether you can
tell that story, whether you should tell that story, and all these different
things locked in there. Right after I finished the book I started going back
to some of my highlights and even some random pages and found connections that
I didn't see the first time through. So I know this will improve with further
rereading. The tea question is how much milk do you add. It highly depends on the
tea. If it's stovetop chai it's almost half milk. If it's a cup of black tea
that takes milk well I will add a healthy dollop.
But if milk goes with the tea I'm probably gonna put it in there.
Question four: milk and sugar. What are your favorite actual and accidental bookmarks?
And do you add one lump or two? I love it when books come with the ribbon
bookmarks, those are my absolute actual favorite. But not so many come with that.
My favorite accidental bookmarks are business cards, and they are actually one
of my favorite bookmarks period because I don't have to worry about losing it.
If I have nice bookmarks and I lose one I'm going to be distraught, and even if I
don't lose it I'm going to worry about losing it.
I don't need that mental strain. That's just my own thing. So if I have a
business card that takes care of all the problems. I grab them from some of my
favorite cafes and so it's kind of just like a nice, oh yeah, it was nice there,
a kind of thing, too, as I open the book. And one lump or two. So green tea doesn't
take sugar, but black tea - the grumpier I am, the more sugar I tend add.
Question five: the perfect tea set. Do you display your books or do you keep them secret?
And the tea question is do you have a favorite mug or cup or tea pot or other
kinds of things? My bookshelf is fairly hidden but it's by necessity more than
design. If you've seen my bookshelf tour videos you'll know that right outside of
this, this door here is my bookshelf. And that's actually in a tiny little alcove
that leads to the hallway that goes towards the front of the house. And the
apartment is tiny. There's, the living room is quite small, so there's no room
in there to have a bookcase that wouldn't be hit by sun all day, because I
don't want all the books to get completely bleached. And in this room I
don't want the books to fall on my head. So it ended up going out there. As far as
tea things go I don't think I found anything Holy Grail quite yet. I do like,
and I'll see if I can put some video up here, I do like my green tea cups because
they have a design down in the bottom and that's just delightful every time I
go to pick it up. I like seeing that. Oh, and I do like my tea cups quite a bit.
They were a present for my birthday and they are a very me color. I really like
the teal. I really like turquoise, teal kind of turquoise color, and that with
the gold works really well in that tea cup, so that's another favorite of mine.
The other things I use I like well enough, but they're not like the, you know,
most favorite thing that I want to keep forever. I'm always on the lookout,
especially for a nicer teapot. Question six: sip and sigh. Is there a book that
makes you feel cozy immediately? And what's your favorite tea drinking setup?
For the book question I have to go with the Peter Wimsey series on audiobook.
I've only listened to the first couple but they are absolutely delightful and I
am saving these for a literary rainy day. The narrator is an actor who
actually played Wimsy on TV, and I sometimes think he does the character
voices better than some of the actual characters who were in the miniseries
with him. And it's just going back to these well-loved characters and all
these kind of cozy-ish mysteries as well, and just makes me feel all warm and
fuzzy. My favorite setup for drinking tea is just probably my morning green tea
setup. And there's nothing really special about it. It's just that I have my teapot
on a mug warmer on my desk which is key. Before I had the mug warmer I used a tea
cosy that I made which worked very well, but obviously doesn't work forever.
The mug warmer keeps the entire pot warm for however long I need it and that has
been wonderful. I'm so glad I got that. Question seven: another cup. What is a
book that you're currently reading or plan to read next? And how often do you
drink tea? I recently got my hands on the audio book of Bad Blood and I'm looking
forward to digging into this one, just because I've heard so many good things
about it. And just today I saw Sarah over at Basking in Books review this during
one of her vlogmas videos and she had wonderful things to say about it, so
that's a good kick in the pants. I really should be getting on that sooner rather
than later. And as far as tea goes I drink tea every day, several times a day. If I'm
home for the day I have green tea in the morning,
several pots. I mean, they're not big pots, it's like a 300 ml pot, and I'll have
several of those. And I usually switch over to black in the afternoon. And if
I'm at work I always have a bottle of hot tea my bag ready to go. If I'm at a
restaurant and one of the drink options is tea I'm probably getting that,
especially at Indian places. I love tasting all the different chais at all
the different restaurants and comparing and contrasting what different spices
and things they use and which ones I like best. So there we have it, the Time
for Tea and Books Tag. And I wouldn't be done without tagging some other people,
but I don't know who drinks tea out there. So if you drink tea and you would
like to do this tag please consider yourself tagged. Some people that may
drink tea - I don't know, Shawn over at the Book Maniac? Do you drink tea?
You live in Japan. It must be forced on you every once in a while even if you
don't drink it at home. And Nashwa, do you drink tea?
I don't know if that's your go-to beverage or not. And let's also go with
Elsie over at Foibles and *Fancies. Just ignore this if you don't drink tea,
that's totally fine. But out of all the people I know I think you guys might be
the most likely, or the ones that I get a feeling you maybe mentioned something about tea
or something. So if you'd like to, go for it. So thank you for watching,
subscribe if you're new, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye!
[♪♪] Thank you for watching!
Tonight as I edit I'm enjoying some peppermint tea.
Because booo sketchy leftovers that upset my stomach, booooo.
(But I'm better now with the tea, yea! 🍵)
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