Reading Between the Tealeaves

This episode we talk about the amazing (spoiler alert) compilation of essays, poems and stories Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other Lies), curated by Scarlet Curtis.We discuss our feminism and our guilty pasts with gossip and our experience with the book.Please buy the book if you can and you are interested! We really loved it and a portion of the proceeds go to Girl Up, an amazing charity that supports women and girls in hopes of changing the world.Buy the book and listen to the podcast here.Kat’s review is really thorough and here.

This episode is a really interesting one, about the book Doing It by British YouTuber and sex educator Hannah Witton.It sparked a really interesting conversation about consent, queerness, gatekeeping and sex! We think that having open and honest conversations about this is really important, and this book is a huge part of this kind of thing.This book won Book of the Year at the Summer in the City Awards 2017.Kiara talked about the myth of “Alphas”. Go here and here if you were wondering more about it!Find Kat’s full interview here.Find the book, and the next one coming out by Hannah Witton this year here.

Lolita. Most of us have heard of it. This episode Mel, Kat and Kiara talk about our experience reading the controversial 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Please be aware that because of the content matter in the book, we discuss pedophilia, rape and other nasty stuff, but it is worth a listen.We also have a nice catch up and chat about all of our favourite reads from the time that we haven’t been recording, and the fact that Kiara has moved back to New Zealand.Thank you for listening, we are working on options for improving the audio quality.Read Kat’s full review here.You can buy the book here, or quite often at your nearest second hand store.Please review us on Apple Podcasts if you like us, and find us onTwitter @RTealeaves.

Getting into Margaret Atwood this episode, Kat and Kiara have a chat about The Penelopiad – a re-imagination of the greek myth The Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus' good, faithful wife Penelope. We really get into it, it is a good time, and Kat has a cool story about the company where she got the amazing Jack Frost tea we have.Also, Kiara said that Zeus was Penelope's father, which is wrong. Her father is King Icarius. Zeus is thought to be her uncle, father of Helen of Troy.We also joining us on the podcast are Kat's kittens, Loki and Thor.Read Kat's full review here.You can buy the book here.Please review us on Apple Podcasts if you like us, and find us on Twitter @RTealeaves.

This week we discuss Out of the Blue, the debut LGBT YA novel by Sophie Cameron. It is a magic-realism-esque book about what happens to a young woman in the grips of teen life when she loses someone close to her and something else is happening too. Angels. Angels are falling from the sky.This podcast is a discussion of tea and literature in a small East London bedroom between three women.We also talk about fruit teas, Kiara gets schooled on London summertimeYou can find Kat’s Review here.Go here to buy the book and see for yourself, or visit her super cute website.

In this episode we discuss The Power, a dystopian novel about women getting deadly powers. We discuss our opinions on the book, issues with ebooks, and offer a summary and discussion on the topics and themes within.

This podcast is a discussion of tea and literature in a small East London bedroom between three women.In this episode we discuss the poetry anthology Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur.You can find Kat’s Review here.Go here to buy the book and see for yourself, or follow Rupi on Instagram.