3:21 PM EST: Everytime you check the blog something will be different! Right now I am adding this Little Bee quote about tea because Jason and I miss tea! Backstory: She is a Nigerian refugee talking to someone from Britain.
“Tea is the taste of my land: it is bitter and warm, strong, and sharp with
memory. It tastes of longing. It tastes of the distance between where you
are and where you come from. Also it vanishes- the taste of it vanishes
from your tongue while your lips are still hot from the cup. It
disappears, like plantations stretching up into the mist. I have heard
that your country drinks more tea than any other. How sad that must make
you -like children who long for absent mothers. I am sorry.” (emphasis mine)
I love that: "like children who long for absent mothers". Has tea ever made you feel that way? Me neither, but it's a beautiful image. I highly recommend the book. And to clear something up: Nicole said it's no Middlesex, which is no Name of the Wind. I haven't read Name of the Wind and I know I won't convince anyone who's read it, but I'd assert that Middlesex is better than Name of the Wind.
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| All this tea talk makes me want to call my Mom! |
