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I Am Half Sick of Shadows
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Alan Bradley
naessa
, October 24, 2014
It’s Christmas at Buckshaw and 11 year old amateur detective and chemist Flavia concocts a surefire method (chemically, of course) to prove that Father Christmas is real. In the meantime, Flavia’s father has rented out their manor house out to a film crew in a desperate attempt to stave off the tax man. Naturally, a murder is committed and Flavia meddles, despite the best intentions of Inspector Hewitt to keep her out of it. This is the fourth entry in the charming Flavia de Luce mysteries. And on a more superficial note, the jewel colored books look beautiful lined up on my shelves.
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Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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Alan Bradley
naessa
, October 24, 2014
It’s Christmas at Buckshaw and 11 year old amateur detective and chemist Flavia concocts a surefire method (chemically, of course) to prove that Father Christmas is real. In the meantime, Flavia’s father has rented out their manor house out to a film crew in a desperate attempt to stave off the tax man. Naturally, a murder is committed and Flavia meddles, despite the best intentions of Inspector Hewitt to keep her out of it. This is the fourth entry in the charming Flavia de Luce mysteries. And on a more superficial note, the jewel colored books look beautiful lined up on my shelf.
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Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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Alan Bradley
naessa
, October 24, 2014
I love this series. Precocious 11 year sleuth Flavia de Luce is like a cross between Nancy Drew and Merricat Blackwood. If you like your mysteries to be cozy and quirky, I would highly recommend reading this book (and the rest of the series too!).
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Excellent Women
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Barbara Pym
naessa
, October 22, 2014
Mildred Lathbury is unmarried in her early thirties. She lives alone in 1950’s London and is active in her local Anglican church as part of a cadre of “excellent women” who organize the church bazars, man booths at the rummage sales and, of course, make and serve copious amounts of tea. The assumption is that these women have time and energy to devote to these activities since they are unmarried. It’s not that Mildred has no potential suitors, but those who are available don’t quite measure up and she isn’t really sure if she needs or even wants marriage. Men are, after all, a lot of work. They have to be catered to; a wife’s needs are subordinate to those of her husband. Mildred’s quiet routine is upended when she finds herself drawn into the affairs of her unhappily married neighbors and a scheming widow makes designs on the unmarried vicar. Barbara Pym’s works deserve far more attention than they get. In Excellent Women, she gets the balance between comedy and pathos exactly right. Pym is often compared to Austen, which doesn’t seem totally out of place. They both definitely turn a sharp, witty, often ironic, eye on their social microcosms. However, with Austen, a good match always equals a happy end. With Pym, there is decided ambivalence on whether such happy end is desirable or achievable.
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The Orphan Masters Son
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Adam Johnson
naessa
, October 22, 2014
Since this title won the Pulitzer, it probably doesn’t need any more praise from me, but it possible the best book I read in 2013. For most of the world, North Korea is a country shrouded in mystery. The events portrayed in The Orphan Master’s Son are fantastical and absurd, yet who can say what is real and what is imagined? All I know is I couldn’t stop reading. Imagine an entire country of over 20 million suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and you’ll have an idea of life in the DPRK as depicted in the book. Remarkably, however, despite the brutality and despair of life under a totalitarian regime inherent in the subject matter, the story was neither disheartening nor hopeless. I highly recommend it.
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