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The darling Alyssa tagged me for her Milk Tea Tag , and I am FINALLY doing it. Congratulate me! Okay, here we go.

Tea: the foundation of your reading life

wishing chair

I’m going to have to go with Enid Blyton’s The Adventures of the Wishing Chair here because I adored it SO much as a wee child, and I became subsequently obsessed with everything Blyton and read practically all her books (but not the non-magical ones like Secret Seven because FANTASY IS BETTER). Can I just say how sad it was to find out that Blyton was apparently a heinous woman? THAT CANNOT BE. Her stories are so sweet *crying*

Milk: a rich, smooth book

wildwood dancing

Surprise, surprise: here I am again with Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier. Seriously, this book is decadent and lovely and you should all read it because I say so.

Sugar: a book you love but is controversial

forbidden by tabitha suzuma

I think this one is probably Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma. This is one of my all time favourite books, and I adore it to no end. I know that it might not suit some people, so I guess that’s why it is the book for this question.

Ice: a book just for fun

french kiss

None of the books I read are fun anymore, seriously. All my books are DOOM and GLOOM. But back in the day when I needed a pick-me-up, my go-to book was French Kiss by Sarra Manning. It’s melodramatic and swoony and … fun!

Silk Stocking: a book that’s much better than it sounds

attachments

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell is definitely a book that is SO much better than it sounds. I mean emailing and a boy with a new job and the end of the internet? Sounds a bit boring. But this is one of my favourite books! I loved it a lot because of how sweet it was.

Yinyang: a book with a foreign influence

falconer

I was going to go with Memoirs of a Geisha but Alyssa chose that book (great minds think alike!), so instead I am going to go with The Falconer by Elizabeth May that is set in Scotland! I love everything and anything about Europe, especially Britain, so this book was perfect. I’m just about to finish the sequel and EEP.

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I don’t know who to tag because I feel like I’ve tagged everyone in some tag or another, but here are a few tagees (if you’ve already been tagged for this or have done this, ignore me ;D): Jeann @ Happy Indulgence, Kayla @ Caught Between the Pages, Bec + Alise @ Readers in Wonderland, and Mel @ The Daily Prophecy! <3

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Posted on: November 30, 2015 • By: Chiara

16 Responses to The Milk Tea Tag

  1. I LOVED ENID BLYTON’S BOOKS. I’m just going to go ahead and pretend she was a lovely woman, too ;) One of these days I’ll get to Wildwood Dancing…one day…

  2. Fun tag! I’ve been wanting to read Forbidden for years now! I also really liked Attachments, but you’re right…it doesn’t sound all that great when you try and explain it. haha

    -Lauren

    • Chiara says:

      Forbidden is one of my all time favourites. I hope you like it if you get around to reading it! And Attachments is lovely, but hard to explain in a way that doesn’t make it sound weird or boring XD

  3. Oh goodness, I used to have this enormous collection of all the Wishing Chair books that I read over and over again. I think it possibly may have weighed more than I did ;) Enid Blyton was truly my childhood (though, you’re right, only the fantasy ones – I could never stand her mystery books, and I always wished she’d give up writing them to write more fantasy!).

    • Chiara says:

      YESSSS. The Wishing Chair books were THE BESTTT. I had practically all of Enid’s books, but I never read the ones about the kids, haha XD I liked the fantasy ones, and the toy ones :D

  4. Thanks for the tag my love! I loved the Falconer after Bec recommended too. Man I don’t know how I feel about Forbidden, I don’t think I could read it (I already got put off TMI because of this). I loved Attachments, I was shedding tears by the end of it too!

  5. ENID BLYTON YES. She was my childhood. Instead of growing up on Disney like most people I know, I grew up on Enid Blyton. I loved every book of hers I read, though the fantasy ones are my favourite. Especially The Faraway Tree books. Along with Harry Potter, I try to reread those at least once a year. I still haven’t read Wildwood Dancing :( !! I’ll get there one day, I swear. I really want to read Forbidden, too. YAY! Someone else who loved the Diary of a Crush books. :) I probably would think they’re terrible if I read them now, but I loved them at the time. I always remember this one quote from maybe the second book:
    “It’s Carter, sweetheart.”
    “And it’s Edie, dickweed.”
    Honestly, at the time I thought Edie was the sassiest character. Also, I do want to read Attachments one day and THE FALCONER. GIVE IT TO ME.

    • Chiara says:

      I grew up on Disney and Enid Blyton :D And I loved her fantasies more than her others. The Adventures of the Wishing Chair was my absolute fave, but I really loved The Faraway Tree, too :D

      I hope you get to read Wildwood Dancing and Forbidden soon! They are both some of my all time favourites.

      And OMG! I have never met anyone else who has read the Diary of a Crush books! I adored them <3 I really loved Edie, as well :D

      THE FALCONER IS AMAZING.

  6. I have a love/hate relationship with book tags (even though I made this one!) because my TBR always suffers. But in the best way, because these all sound fab! Forbidden has the most intriguing cover, and I ADORE the pun of Attachments (I’m still thinking I ought to read a Rainbow Rowell book, but I’m not sure which). Thanks for doing this tag!

    • Chiara says:

      Hah! I generally like them, because it lets me shout about my favourites :D I really love the cover for Forbidden, as well <3 And Attachments was my first Rowell (from what I can remember), and it worked well for me!

  7. Thanks for the tag, Chiara!

    I just bought Alise The Falconer for Christmas and need to purchase myself a hard copy. That book is so amazing. I also need to read Wildwood Dancing properly! (I’ve read the sequel but not it -_-)

    • Chiara says:

      No problem!

      I think The Falconer books are really expensive now D: Which sucks, because I want to own the second one! LOL, Bec, how can you have read the sequel and not the first one? The first one is better! :D

  8. Romi says:

    I… admit that I’ve read none of these books. Although I’m pretty sure The Falconer is on my tbr (and has been for yearsssssss but we can ignore that, I’m sure), and obviously Wildwood Dancing is going to be read V SOON. I love the fact that YOU loved Enid Blyton but would only read the fantasy books as a child. That’s adorable. I definitely like fantasy a heck of a lot more, but I’m pretty sure I grew up primarily with the Secret Seven and Famous Five books, even though I grew to prefer The Magic Faraway Tree. ALL THE DIFFERENT WORLDS. It was basically my dream life, going to a different world and getting all that adventure any time I wanted. I coveted the wonder those children had at their fingertips (even though they seem to bemoan it a lot, which is completely unthinkable because MAGIC TREES, PEOPLE). And the TV show was my jam. Twas adorable to the limit of adorable. But then I watched the movie about Enid Blyton. And it sounds like you did, too. It was a little bit earth shaking for me, that film.

    Lovely post, she who does not like tea! *cackles*

    • Chiara says:

      Again: HOW ARE WE EVEN FRIENDS? I think you would kind of love The Falconer, to be honest. Please search your crappy library to see if they have it, please. I GAVE YOU WILDWOOD DANCING OVER TWO MONTHS AGO. And you still have not read it *shakes head with dismay*

      The Adventures of the Wishing Chair was always my fave, followed closely by The Magic Faraway Tree. And yes, the children were little shits, haha. I didn’t watch the TV show because I saw one episode and hated it.

      Alas, I just found out randomly that Enid Blyton was a horrible old woman :(

      EW, TEA.

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