The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

, #1

Hardcover, 374 pages

English language

Published Oct. 8, 2009 by Delacorte Press.

ISBN:
978-0-385-34230-8
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It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.

For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “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.”

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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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Subjects

  • Detectives -- England -- Fiction
  • Motherless families -- Fiction
  • Sisters -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction

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