Ok - I saw this at Barnes and Noble and checked it out from my library - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - by Alan Bradley. What a quirky little mystery. Flavia De Luce is a 11 year old girl in England during the reign of George VI, but there is nothing typical about her. Stamps, murdered public school teachers, eccentric father and bad food.
GO READ IT!
Cheryl Who will go stitch again now - it's raining and she's not getting in the garden before Monday...
I've been thinking of getting this one as I've seen several folks recommending it. I'm currently reading "The Postmistress," a story that alternates between Cape Cod and London during the blitz with the news "reader" on the other side of the pond the initial connection.
It's not raining here....that was last night. BUT the winds have been howling. I've already been outside once to rescue my "gardening" trash can and to prop up the clematis. I do have a new trellis for it but not in this wind.
Off to do more reading and finally some stitching. Hopefully another 100 stitched of "Fractal 53."
Nancy
I've been thinking of getting this one as I've seen several folks recommending it. I'm currently reading "The Postmistress," a story that alternates between Cape Cod and London during the blitz with the news "reader" on the other side of the pond the initial connection.
It's not raining here....that was last night. BUT the winds have been howling. I've already been outside once to rescue my "gardening" trash can and to prop up the clematis. I do have a new trellis for it but not in this wind.
Off to do more reading and finally some stitching. Hopefully another 100 stitched of "Fractal 53."
Nancy
*********************Ooh, a second recommendation -- I'm going to have to check this book out! My plan for today was to put together a little care package for a friend of mine that's going to be having surgery next week, and I was thinking about what book I should put in there that she might enjoy reading. I think she'd like the historical time period of it.
Thanks Cheryl and Nancy! Jinx
Get a copy of The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - a most hopeful book. If she's off Gothic twist, try "The Thirteenth Tale"
Cheryl
I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society a couple of weeks ago. It was a delightful story. L>
Good luck getting the work done
Cheryl
Let me add a plug for the audio version of this book....it's a delightful story, and because it's an epistolic novel, having different voices read the various letters added to the enjoyment. And then she can stitch while reading!!
sue
It was the one of the BBC's choices for "Book at bedtime" last year - very good too. Bruce
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