Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
Alan Bradley
Read by Jayne Entwistle
Random House Audio, March 2010
ISBN 0307576418
Unabridged Audio Book
Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old with a near-genius mind, apparently has way too much time, and too much curiosity, for a child who is benignly neglected by her father and ignored, at best, by her disdainful and tormenting [...]

May 17, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
Alan Bradley
Random House, March 2010
ISBN 9780385342315
Hardcover
Flavia de Luce is an odd duck, there’s just no getting around that.  She’s odd in ways that speak to the insecure in most people: she contemplates her funeral, she believes that nobody cares for her, she is curious about things that others have [...]

March 14, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: A Country Affair

A Country Affair
Rebecca Shaw
Three Rivers Press, 2006
ISBN 1400098203
Trade Paperback
I’m an addict when it comes to the heartwarming sort of small town story, the kind that involves a large cast of characters living unremarkable lives but you can’t help wanting to know what’s going to happen next.  You know the kind of books I mean, Jan [...]

November 24, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments