My Reading Experiment (Books #8, #9, #10, #10.5, #11) - Flavia De Luce (the series)
Target: 100 books
Current: 11 books
HA! And you thought I was getting nowhere with my reading! I finally joined the New York Public Library. I did it so that I needn't starve anymore because I was spending all my money on books. I am writing now on the first full stomach I've had since February this year. Yep, you guessed right. I am in full throttle Drama Queen mode.
#8, #9, #10, #10.5, #11
I am Half-Sick of Shadows
Speaking from Among the Bones
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
- Alan Bradley
Loved it, Fiction, Mystery, English, Genius kid, Whodunnit
It is as though Agatha Christie's and Enid Blyton's books adopted the love child of Matilda and Madeline! A small piece of heaven, if you prefer.
The first time I read a book from Alan Bradley's Flavia De luce series was over two years ago. I got addicted, and finished all the books in that series that I could get my hands on, namely, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag, and A Red Herring Without Mustard. And then, somehow, I forgot all about Flavia.
What a great time to remember her again! And to have her assist me in this quest of mine by taking me forward four and half juicy books.
The concept is very simple, predictable even, you might say. Flavia is a genius kid, who lives in the English countryside, in the village of Bishop's Lacey. She lives with her father, Colonel De Luce, and with her two sisters, Daffy and Feely. Also, somewhat part of her family, are the housekeeper Mrs.Mullet, and the gardener/handyman Dogger. Not to forget Harriet, the kids' dead mother, whose presence always seems to hang around Buckshaw Manor like an invisible character.
Flavia's one great love is Chemistry. Poison is her cup of tea, Strychnine arguably being her favourite. Every book brings along *surprise surprise* a death, which Flavia ends up solving. There are a whole host of other characters from Bishop's Lacey who pop up all the time, like the Vicar and his wife, and Inspector Hewitt. It is a joy to imagine Flavia jumping on to her trusty old sidekick, Gladys, and pedaling away into Bishop's Lacey in the dead of the night to look for clues.
There's nothing more comforting than a nice old-fashioned whodunnit. For a person like me, who grew up on a staple diet of Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie, it feels like coming home.
"If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as 'dearie.' When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poisons, and come to 'Cyanide,' I am going to put under 'Uses' the phrase 'Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.'"
Current: 11 books
HA! And you thought I was getting nowhere with my reading! I finally joined the New York Public Library. I did it so that I needn't starve anymore because I was spending all my money on books. I am writing now on the first full stomach I've had since February this year. Yep, you guessed right. I am in full throttle Drama Queen mode.
#8, #9, #10, #10.5, #11
I am Half-Sick of Shadows
Speaking from Among the Bones
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
- Alan Bradley
Loved it, Fiction, Mystery, English, Genius kid, Whodunnit
It is as though Agatha Christie's and Enid Blyton's books adopted the love child of Matilda and Madeline! A small piece of heaven, if you prefer.
The first time I read a book from Alan Bradley's Flavia De luce series was over two years ago. I got addicted, and finished all the books in that series that I could get my hands on, namely, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag, and A Red Herring Without Mustard. And then, somehow, I forgot all about Flavia.
What a great time to remember her again! And to have her assist me in this quest of mine by taking me forward four and half juicy books.
The concept is very simple, predictable even, you might say. Flavia is a genius kid, who lives in the English countryside, in the village of Bishop's Lacey. She lives with her father, Colonel De Luce, and with her two sisters, Daffy and Feely. Also, somewhat part of her family, are the housekeeper Mrs.Mullet, and the gardener/handyman Dogger. Not to forget Harriet, the kids' dead mother, whose presence always seems to hang around Buckshaw Manor like an invisible character.
Flavia's one great love is Chemistry. Poison is her cup of tea, Strychnine arguably being her favourite. Every book brings along *surprise surprise* a death, which Flavia ends up solving. There are a whole host of other characters from Bishop's Lacey who pop up all the time, like the Vicar and his wife, and Inspector Hewitt. It is a joy to imagine Flavia jumping on to her trusty old sidekick, Gladys, and pedaling away into Bishop's Lacey in the dead of the night to look for clues.
There's nothing more comforting than a nice old-fashioned whodunnit. For a person like me, who grew up on a staple diet of Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie, it feels like coming home.
"If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as 'dearie.' When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poisons, and come to 'Cyanide,' I am going to put under 'Uses' the phrase 'Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.'"
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