Time for Tea: The Gentle Art of Reading Tea-Leaves

by Lindel Barker-Revell

144 pages, Unknown Binding

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think it talks a lot about the English tradition of drinking tea, but not so much about reading tea leaves. I thought it was more complicated to learn but the basics are easy, what is needed is more intuition, I like that it has a section of symbols, some have good descriptions and others I think they need to go deeper into them, but for that there are symbology books I would recommend more at the time of interpretation.

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Creo que habla mucho sobre la tradición inglesa de tomar el té, pero no tanto sobre leer hojas de té. Creí que era más complicado de aprender pero las bases son fáciles, lo que se necesita es más intuición, me gusta que tenga un apartado de símbolos, algunos tienen buenas descripciones y otros creo que falta profundizarlos más, pero para eso hay libros de simbologia qué yo recomendaría más en el momento de la interpretación.

[Helen (they or he) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 out of 5 stars.

This is a good book about tea time, yes. It gives you background information about tea and tea time and extra instructions such as dessert recipes. But as for the tea-leaves reading part, it falls short. Tea leaf reading is such a symbolically rich art that it can't be contained in such a small book. And in this book, not only the symbols described are too simplistic and few -- this book only contains maybe a hundred symbols - the interpretation of symbols aren't given until you're halfway into the book! I enjoyed reading this book for the most part but this wouldn't be on the top of my recommendation list anytime soon.