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This is an adorable tea to keep a pep in your step to. I had it hot on a snow day, no surprise there. The taste is light enough on your tongue to keep you in a good mood but versatile enough to enjoy the works of Alice Munro, specifically, The Progress of Love. The book takes place in Canada, Ontario for the most part, and it is an anthology of short snippets of the lives of different characters in their situations of their lives.

I love it, love the characters, love the description, love the manner in which Munro writes. I recommend Snow Day as the tea to drink to it, not just because Canada is known as a Winter Wonderland but because the tea fits the book so well, light enough to enjoy some of the more hilarious moments, sweet enough for the coming of age, and nostalgia, and yet it has that extra (I suspect the mint) which makes it mature enough for the book.

Book recommendation for this tea:

The Progress of Love by Alice Munro

Tea recommended for this book is Red Velvet Cake Tea by David’s Tea for it’s alluring tea notes, and both it’s complexity and simplicity. This tea will have you love it in allowing you to sit back and ponder a thing or two about this world.

Because of this, I recommend the book

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

This book seems to draw the love it or hate it crowd. People were either praising it heavily with all the worship of a reader that can give to an author or they were racing through it to finish, or not finishing it at all.

I am of the lovers of Murakami. I am already biased and into his style of writing before reading anything of his. I will always be a loyal reader and love his words. I cannot recommend him enough. If you are a fan, I will advise to start reading. If you are not a fan, take Murakami a little at a time. 1Q84 in English was printed as 1 book, while in Japan, it was in 3 books. Keep that in mind! I thought I would never finish but I did in which the red velvet cake is lovely for keeping me company through all the pages.

A sweet taste in your mouth brings back the taste of summer, with it’s almost overloaded sensations of strawberry and pineapple, the fruity drink lives up to it’s name, both alcoholic and non.
Because of the saturation of flavors, the books recommended for this tea are:

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Cohn, Rachel, and The Nanny Diaries
Novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

I can always fall into the words of Rossetti’s poetry quietly. Her words are quick to catch the attention in any topic she chooses, whether she is writing about unrequited love, love lost, or a sister’s love, and always leave a sweet aftertaste.

The tea I recommended for this book is Hard Candy by David’s Tea. With it’s smoothness upon your lips to the sweet taste, it reminds me wholly of Rossetti’s word, especially her Goblin Market poem.

Nothing particularly stands out about the tea. It is a black tea pure and straight. It evokes nothing but allows you to drink it without thought, without taste. But it is in taking the tea that one can spend a whole day drinking it and not even notice.

The book I recommend for this tea is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Like any of Murakami’s books, this one doesn’t stray far from the complexities of the narrator’s relationships. What is thoroughly enjoyable about the book is that Murakami always has that style to turn the mundane, daily conversations and moments that people take for granted into beauty and become monuments in the person’s life. Just like the tea, of which doesn’t stand out.

Not my favorite tea but my first time trying an Assam at home. Definitely a stronger tasting tea and for the person who has more of coffee palette. It is both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

For this tea, I would recommend the book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

From the mixtures of the flavors, I cannot exactly pinpoint the flavors, making this tea a mystery if I didn’t know anything about it. The tea is light, and tasty, just nothing pops up stronger in terms of flavor than others. It is an easy on the tongue, easier on the nose tea and reminds me of a few books that are similarly easy to read and be intriguing. Those hard to catalog, hard to define, so everyone labels it a little bit of everything book.

With the same air of mystery surrounding this tea, I recommend the books
“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs” & “I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak”

This is one of my favorite green teas.

I am not a fan of green teas as much as other teas, call it my palate, call it blasphemy from a person who is easily labeled as a tea fanatic, but I simply call it the truth. Yet the tea from the first taste is bittersweet reminding of the world of a family I once read that were faced with the same sweet and bitter battle about their own lives in trying to find the balance between the gain in the lost.

The books recommended for this tea are: The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (the family I mentioned in the tea note) and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford.

From the sweet bakery smell of this tea to the different ingredients, the reason I picked this tea because it stood out. I had it iced with soy milk and I enjoyed the sweet almost caramel like taste of this tea. I could almost be deceived and take this tea at face value for what it claims to be: a sweet baked treat. If it wasn’t for the ingredients. That’s why I am recommending Diaz’ book, because people and teas are not always as they appear, no matter how sweet they are.

Books recommended for this tea: This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.