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: The Reader

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
Vintage Books, 2008
ISBN 0307473465
Mass Market Paperback

When 15-year-old Michael Berg discovers an older woman willing to become his lover, he thinks he’s the student. Yet, intimacy with Hanna comes with one condition–he’s got to read to her first.
Michael never thought much about this odd form of foreplay until years later when Hanna’s on trial [...]

February 26, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments