Questions: 1. Do you give books as gifts? If so, to whom? 2. Do you receive many books as gifts? Are they usually successful? 3. When you buy yourself books, do you think of them as gifts? 4. Do you consider used books to be acceptable gifts? 5. If you could receive a gift card for any bookshop/book website, which would you choose? 6. Gift wrapping? Gift bag? Bare presentation? 7. Can you communicate to others when a book is a lend and not a gift? 8. Have you even given someone an e-book? 9. Name 5 books you'd love to receive as gifts. 10. Tag some book/gift people!
The Book Giving Tag! (Original Tag)Taking Tea With Catherine2020-08-16 | The tag that keeps on giving!
Questions: 1. Do you give books as gifts? If so, to whom? 2. Do you receive many books as gifts? Are they usually successful? 3. When you buy yourself books, do you think of them as gifts? 4. Do you consider used books to be acceptable gifts? 5. If you could receive a gift card for any bookshop/book website, which would you choose? 6. Gift wrapping? Gift bag? Bare presentation? 7. Can you communicate to others when a book is a lend and not a gift? 8. Have you even given someone an e-book? 9. Name 5 books you'd love to receive as gifts. 10. Tag some book/gift people!A Colorful Reading MonthTaking Tea With Catherine2024-09-30 | September Wrap-Up!
The Bookshop : A History of the American Bookstore By Evan FrissVictober 2024 TBRTaking Tea With Catherine2024-09-22 | #victober #victober2024
I am excited to share my only slightly overwhelming reading plans for October...
Trollope, Collins, Stevenson and more!
Hosts of Victober 2024: @katehowereads @katiejlumsden @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 @BlatantlyBookish The Library TagTaking Tea With Catherine2024-09-03 | #tagtuesday
Created by @BookBuds
I was tagged by @BlatantlyBookish
If you do go to the Library, answer these: 1. How often do you go to the library? 2. Do you belong to more than one library system? 3. What percent of books you read come from the library? 4. Do you listen to audiobooks or get e-books from the library or are you hooked on Audible or Amazon or something else? 5. Did you go to storytime at the library as a kid? 6. Have you ever borrowed a movie or video game from your library? 7. Have you ever gotten fined for returning books late? If so, how do you feel about that? 8. Do you attend special events, groups or book sales at the library? 9. Have you ever given or taken a book from a little free library, a book box or a book swap? 10. Bonus! Does your librarian know you by name? ________________________ If you DON’T go to the library… (answer these) 1. Why the heck not? 2. Where do you get your books from? 3. Have you ever had a library card or do you have one now? 4. When was the last time you stepped foot in the library? 5. Have you ever gone to an event at your library? 6. Do you have little free libraries or book boxes or book swaps where you live? Show us a picture if you do. 7. Tag some friends!August ReadingTaking Tea With Catherine2024-09-01 | A bit of ranting here and thereJane Austen July 2024 Wrap-UpTaking Tea With Catherine2024-08-09 | All the books I (mostly) enjoyed in July. Tea: Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer Freddie says HiJune 2024 Wrap-Up!Taking Tea With Catherine2024-07-06 | Princes in Towers (or out), Tudors, and Museums!Jane Austen July 2024!Taking Tea With Catherine2024-06-28 | Hosted By: @katiejlumsden @BlatantlyBookish @SpinstersLibrary
Possible DNFs...definite enjoyment!
In case I missed it, Maria Edgeworth's title is The Absentee.Chicago Book Haul!Taking Tea With Catherine2024-06-24 | Great trip, great weather, hopefully great books!May 2024 Reading Wrap-UpTaking Tea With Catherine2024-06-13 | Skating around spoilers!Taking Walks With Catherine - The VillageTaking Tea With Catherine2024-06-06 | A quick reminiscenceFive Years On Booktube! Q&A?Taking Tea With Catherine2024-05-24 | Has it been that long? Please leave questions in the comment section below - thanks for watching!April 2024 Reading Wrap-Up!Taking Tea With Catherine2024-05-02 | Freddie assists me in my reviews, some of which are more ornery than they need to be...enjoy!Tea and Mystery - and History!Taking Tea With Catherine2024-03-31 | #marchmysterymadness
I read 3 mysteries, and one (big surprise) Tudor history!
I should note that though I said the Perveen Mistry novels are not cozy, sometimes there are food and tea descriptions that give momentary coziness. So go for it!February 2024 Reading Wrap Up - Thoughts...Taking Tea With Catherine2024-03-04 | #welovejenny
In which my memory for author names is as sad as some of the books...March Mystery Madness 2024 - TBR if possible!Taking Tea With Catherine2024-02-23 | I want to read everything!
Trollope and a lot of Tudor-era books!December 2023 Reading Wrap UpTaking Tea With Catherine2024-01-06 | A few good (or okay) books to end the year!Classics I Just Might Read in 2024Taking Tea With Catherine2023-12-26 | Because anything is possible!Tea and Mystery! December 2023Taking Tea With Catherine2023-12-11 | The last Jane Austen, and a good Agatha ChristieNovember Reading Wrap-up!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-12-02 | Tea and History!Recent Reads - With Bonnie!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-11-15 | We talk about Victober reads and more!Nonfiction November Reading PlansTaking Tea With Catherine2023-11-02 | Oh, I have plans...Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian LiteratureTaking Tea With Catherine2023-10-22 | A few connections between the artists and the writersVictorian Literature Journey TagTaking Tea With Catherine2023-10-10 | What can I say? It's been a journey!
Original Tag @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711Victober 2023 TBRTaking Tea With Catherine2023-09-23 | So many possibilities! Viragos and, of course, Trollope!
Hosts: @katehowereads @katiejlumsden @BlatantlyBookish @bookswithpetra @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711August 2023 Reading Wrap Up: A Disappointing Trollope?Taking Tea With Catherine2023-09-05 | ...Chicago Book Haul: All the Trollope!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-08-18 | ...July Reading Wrap Up - Jane Austen, Trollope, and Tudors!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-08-06 | A slightly more varied July (if entirely English can be called varied?)
With Taylor's of Harrogate Rose LemonadeCoffee With Bonnie: Chicago Book HaulTaking Tea With Catherine2023-08-02 | Library book fair! Lots of Trollope!The Jane Austen Sisters-in-LawTaking Tea With Catherine2023-07-13 | #janeaustenjuly #janeaustenjuly2023
The good and the bad!
All of Austen's novels discussed except Emma and Lady Susan.Spring Reading Wrap-Up Part TwoTaking Tea With Catherine2023-07-09 | Pre-A/C weather reading! Tudors, Plantagenets, and even some Austen-related books!
Tea: Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Sinus SootherJane Austen July 2023 TBRTaking Tea With Catherine2023-06-30 | It is upon us!
@RaineyDayReads @librariesandlabradorsSpring Reading Wrap Up - Part OneTaking Tea With Catherine2023-05-19 | Jasmine Green Tea and Trollope! Biographies! WW2 fiction?Currently Reading - IdeallyTaking Tea With Catherine2023-05-01 | A discussion of the kind of books I like to have going at all times. Not at all ambitious...Tea and Mystery - Madness!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-04-14 | Agatha Christie does a walkabout, I go into partial mourning, and a new-to-me author leaves me whelmed ...February/March 2023 Reading Wrap Up Part 1Taking Tea With Catherine2023-03-30 | Books about Books, and History!A Rare-ish Book Haul!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-03-02 | Bonnie was in town, so off to the shops we went!March Mystery Madness 2023: Its Possible!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-02-23 | A pile of lovely books I'd like to read in March!
The Tea: Jane's Garden, Harney and SonsJanuary 2023 Reading Wrap Up!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-02-10 | Tudors, Gilmores, Old Favorites, and a Mystery!Chat Tea Time: Barnes & NobleTaking Tea With Catherine2023-01-15 | My personal history of the big bookshop chain, and wondering whether I should support B&N when there are great indie booksellers to choose from.Wrapping Up 2022!Taking Tea With Catherine2023-01-03 | in as few words as possible...Reading and Bookish Plans for 2023Taking Tea With Catherine2022-12-30 | Party like it's 1993!Nonfiction November 2022 Wrap Up (finally)Taking Tea With Catherine2022-12-28 | History, Biography, Books about Books!December 2022 TBR: A Cleanup and a Christie!Taking Tea With Catherine2022-12-02 | Finishing up the year, hopefully fininishing some books as well!
Novels Mentioned: The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Mary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellNonfiction November 2022 TBR (in theory)Taking Tea With Catherine2022-10-30 | #nonfictionnovember