The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Posted: August 17, 2012 Filed under: Book of Sand Leave a commentby Alan Bradley | 384 pgs, published 2009
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce likes spending time in the laboratory and experimenting with poisons. It adds some interest to her otherwise boring life. Fortunately, early one morning she finds a man lying in the garden outside her window, and once he dies, she has plenty to do: solve his murder.
Think chemistry + stamp collecting + Harriet the Spy + English countryside in the 1950s. If this sounds good, please read the book! I seldom go for mysteries, but this was immensely fun to read. Very enjoyable. There are, apparently, other Flavia de Luce books, but this is a perfectly good stand-alone book.
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Nearly
Posted: June 25, 2012 Filed under: All's Well That Ends Well 1 CommentI was doing such a good job posting every day – but things got hectic! We got the appraisal report last week (excellent news) and heard back from the underwriters today that everything is good to go. That means we’ll go sign papers and hand over a lot of money on Thursday, and by Friday evening –
we’ll have the keys to OUR NEW HOUSE!
Just thought I’d share.
Oh, and we’re thinking of not having internet when we move. We’ll live across the street from the library, so I’ll still have access and try to blog at least weekly, but I think it may be good for us to limit our gadget usage. And the kids’ Netflix consumption.
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