... in the order in which they're appearing on my card (not the order in which they've read them). Soooo ... in this year's twist on RL doing its best trying to throw a spanner in the works of Halloween Bingo fun, I've been spending the better part of the month either sitting around in conference ...
I came across "The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie" when I was looking for new Canadian authors to read. Alan Bradley gets great press, so I bought this book even though I was concerned that I might be getting an extended one line joke in which an aristocratic, 1950's stiff-upper-lip Brit attit...
This book was an immensely enjoyable read. It's well written, witty, and overall well researched and put together. The characters are believable and fleshed out. Believable? With an 11-year-old chemist for a protagonist? Yes. Yes, indeed. I was surprised, because I when I read the premise I thought ...
That's right. My särbo (Ahh, Swedish. "Living apart together." Couldn't have put it better myself.) John & I did not finish this book. We gave it a shot, but in the end, we had to say our goodbyes. I'm fairly certain this is the first book I have ever not finished. I've set things down for...
I finished this about a week and a half ago, but this is my first opportunity to write a review. I have steadily become very enamored with mysteries over the past few years, and I love when the sleuth is atypical. In this case, it's a ten-year-old girl with an obsession for chemistry, poisons in par...
When young Flavia de Luce, aspiring chemist, finds a body in the cucumber patch outside her father's house, she finds herself caught up in a web of deceit and murder...I'm not really sure how my love of detective fiction led me to this tale of an eleven year old girl in 1950s England solving a myste...
This turned out quite well, and I am interested in picking up the rest of the series at some point, but it took quite some time to grow on me. I think a chunk of that was Flavia, which is curious because her character description was the reason I picked up the books. I loved the idea of a young, c...
My mom has been bugging my sister and I to read this book since she read it. I was skeptical of it being worth my time but I'm glad that I read it. I think Flavia is such a great protagonist, I'm glad we have a young female who is interested in science and deductive reasoning. Her obsessions with p...
Flavia de Luce, the eleven-year-old protagonist in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, is all kinds of adorable. Especially when she's extolling the virtues of chemistry or using her precocious knowledge of balanced chemical equations to poison one of her sisters. (Poisoned lipstick, not lethal,...
I have to say that I didn't particular love this book, wasn't particularly caught up in the premise of the mystery, and yet, I'm so glad I continued with the series. Flavia De Luce totally grows on you, as does her home, her laboratory, even her love of chemistry (and I have absolutely no interest ...
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