This is not the kind of children's book that adults love. Or at least, not this adult. The premise is interesting, and I think little girls may very well love it. But it seems like a fairly standard one-dimensional story of a misfit girl, rejected by her conventional family, battling mean girls and ...
A tale of gentlefolk in early 1950s London In "Excellent Women" Barbara Pym lets us see London, immediately after World War Two, through the eyes of Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter of modest independent means, who works mornings in a charity for aiding impoverished gentlewomen, is active ...
This book was an absolute revelation for me, introducing me to an author I was unfamiliar with. Now I have several print editions of her novels on their way to me, including a paperback omnibus that includes Excellent Women, since audiobooks of novels never really do it for me (I love going back and...
Series: Flavia de Luce #8 Flavia is back from Canada and up to her old tricks by discovering a dead body while on an innocent errand. She really has all the luck, doesn't she? I have to say that Flavia probably deserves her little cousin Undine, who at one point assaults her by swinging across the...
Series: Flavia de Luce #7 Flavia is exiled to the wilds of Toronto to attend her mother's old boarding school. I have to say that Flavia's adventures on the Danforth with her treks out to Rosedale amused me. Although I love the narrator of these books, I did find her "Canadian" accents to be a bit...
Series: Flavia de Luce #6 This one was a bit weird and seems to be taking the series in a new direction. I'm not entirely sure if I like the direction, but I still enjoy listening to the books.
Series: Flavia de Luce #5 Another Flavia novel wherein Flavia does things that interfere with the investigation that would be very annoying in someone who wasn't eleven. Maybe more mystery authors with amateur sleuths should make them children. Anyway, they're planning to open a saint's tomb but...
Series: Flavia de Luce #4 This is an interesting place to end up near Halloween since this story takes place at Christmas. Flavia has a surprise planned for Father Christmas in order to prove his existence despite her sisters' insistence to the contrary. It's a very Flavia plan, of course. There...
Series: Flavia de Luce #3 These mysteries are fun, especially in audio format, but Flavia is still a little terror even though we get to see some of the reasons she's always out to get her sisters. I've decided to use Alan Bradley as my Wildcard author, so I'm counting this toward square 13 fo...
Series: Flavia de Luce #2 This was a solid installment of the Flavia de Luce series. I like Flavia, but I sometimes find her chemistry digressions a bit dull. The narrator managed to capture Flavia's enthusiasm for poisons quite well and overall I thought was a good choice. Honestly, Flavia can be...
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