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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

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But wait, there’s more… Flavia De Luce is back! Thought you had seen the last of her? Well, think again! The Weed That Strings the Hangman‘s Bag by Alan Bradley is the sequel to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (see review here). To start, this was a good sequel. It had all the elements you loved from the first book, but it wasn’t redundant! I usually prefer the first book of the series, and the same applies here, but I still loved this […]

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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“I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.” The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley is a murder mystery set in the small town of Bishops Lacey in the 1950s English countryside. Flavia De Luce is an 11-year-old aspiring chemist (with a passion for poison). At Buckshaw, the once-grand home of the De Luce family, there is […]

An 11-year-old chemistry enthusiast explores potions, pies and philately

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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In March, Myanmar was descending into near-daily violence under a junta about a month in after the military ousted democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a lightning-quick coup. Sixteen-hour days were common for our newsroom in Bangkok as we tried to navigate safety concerns for our reporting staff in Yangon, while dealing with a really intense news cycle. Any time off I had, I just couldn’t do anything “serious” — I stopped watching dramas and switched to 20-minute comedies. I re-downloaded a […]

Adorable child or annoying brat? You decide!

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

A Red Herring without Mustard by Alan Bradley

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Someone on the Cannonball Read book chat asked recently for recommendations for when you just can’t focus due to various life stressors. Having gone through a similar phase myself, I recommended cozy mysteries as the genre I find easy to read when I can’t concentrate on much else. I picked up The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie when I was in Pennsylvania on a family emergency, and I decided to go ahead and read the next couple in the series (#2 The Weed […]

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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BINGO GREEN I love me a good mystery novel and I love, love, love the heroine/main character in this book, Flavia DeLuce.  Flavia is the 11 year old youngest daughter of  Colonel DeLuce, the head of the county seat/manor.  Flavia has two older sisters who torment her as much as possible (Ophelia is boy obsessed and Daphne is book obsessed).  But Flavia, who is chemistry obsessed and spends her time in the old Victorian chemistry lab in her home learning about poisons, gives as good […]

I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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It is the summer of 1950 and Flavia de Luce is an 11 year old budding chemist in the small, fictional English town of Bishop’s Lacey.  As she minding her own business (testing out chemistry experiments on her older sisters), mysterious things start to happen around her- first a dead bird with a postage stamp turns up on the family’s front doorstep, then she finds a man dying at 4am in the family’s cucumber patch! Her natural inclination to solve the mystery only increases when […]



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