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 [...]
May 17, 2010
Tags: audio, British, humor, mystery, post-WWII historical, Random House Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews
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Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
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 [...]
March 14, 2010
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Book Review: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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 [...]
February 26, 2010
Tags: mystery, post-WWII historical, suspense, Vintage Books Posted in: Full Reviews
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