The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

English language

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978-0-385-34349-7
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery by Alan Bradley published in 2009. Set in the English countryside in 1950, it features Flavia de Luce, an 11-year-old amateur sleuth who pulls herself away from her beloved chemistry lab in order to clear her father in a murder investigation. Bradley, a first-time novelist, wrote the book after winning the 2007 Debut Dagger Award and selling the publishing rights in three countries, based on the first chapter and a synopsis. Well received by critics as an old-fashioned mystery featuring an unforgettable protagonist, the novel has won multiple awards and is the first in a 10-book series.

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2 stars

[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

started this one, and 3 Cups of Tea, with high hopes, now skimming quickly to be finished with them before book club dates.

and now i'm realizing that the momentum of reading belongs to good books. i was clipping along at a great pace until i hit a crappy book. or 2. or 3. (i'm remembering i read a dissatisfying non fiction opinion book after 'nightbird' too. that's when my reading habits fizzled.)

and they are not disastrously bad books. i can get worked up about that and find thing to comment on, complain about. no, they are just...blehhhrch in a non specific way.

ok, one's got an ego, or at least the author does, that i can't readily swallow and the other is too quaint-murder-she-wrote over the top stuff. i …

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