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I liked the narrator but I just couldn't get into this story. But I don't read many mysteries so I'm sure it's not the books fault. It was given to me by an aunt who meant well.

I listened to the audiobook and by the end I was annoyed by the MC - I think it was partly due to the narrator- she made Flavier come off as pompous and pretentious, like she believed she was not only smarter than everyone else but also better. The narrator would do this little laugh thing every time Flavier said something. I was disappointed by the end especially since this was on some best book list. #pantone @Clwojick

Flavia is an extremely clever 11 year old girl who lives with her father and two sisters at Buckshaw. One day a dead body turns up in their cucumber patch and she has to take matters into her own hands and investigate.
I do love cheeky young female MCs; this was a fun mystery.

I wouldn‘t say I‘m in a slump per se.. but it sure does seem to be taking me a long time to be reading anything these days! I‘m listening to the Flavia DeLuce book (and loving it) and eye-reading the other 2 (which includes my #LMPBC read).. it‘s highly likely I‘ll be starting the new year with these 3!

Wishing you all safe and wonderful new year‘s eves… as calm or as crazy as you like! 🎆🎆🎆

This was cute enough that I'll probably try another one in the series, but it wasn't quite as clever as I'd expected.

I didn‘t enjoy this as much as other book club members did - I found Flavia to be a bit much! - but it does mention #pie at least in passing.
#gratefulharvest

I‘m not a mystery reader, but this cozy drew me in with its main character, the 11 year old chemist and poison enthusiast Flavia de Luce, as unique as she is lovable, and its setting, the sprawling country manor house of Buckshaw in the tidy little village of Bishop's Lacey. TW: a brief, historically accurate but unnecessary instance of racist anti-Asian caricature.

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Thank you @DarkMina for the invite🖤🖤🖤
1. Flavia deLuce from the tagged book, it's unique and kind of fancy.
2. I like protective, maternal or caring characters!

Celebrating one of my favorite Canadian authors who created one of my favorite characters on this #CanadaDay #JulyJourneys

Precocious Flavia de Luce at 11 years old loves chemistry more than anything, and enjoys using it in her revenge plots against her two older sisters. When her dad gets arrested for a crime Flavia decides the only one who can prove his innocence is her.
The narrator is great, she uses this delightfully naughty but proud voice when thinking about things she knows she shouldn‘t but can‘t help herself.
Fun cozy mystery.

#Maycharacters
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#Murders
Made me think of my favorite book series The Flavia deLuce Mysteries. My girl Flavia always found her way into murders. So sad the series is over.

Sometimes you need a spunky 11 year old junior detective and a distilled version of a story to get back your reading mojo. Just popping back on to say I am still reading, still planning and still counting down to 💒!! #recentlyread #nospoilers #detective #mystery #bookhaul #awesomefind

Continuing on with Flavia‘s journey of solving the murder, she begins to try and connect the dots. The first thing on her agenda is to visit the library in Bishop‘s Lacey in an attempt to find some newspapers explaining the events of her father‘s past. While there, she learns that her father‘s headmaster mysteriously died in an incident due to the very stamp found on the snipe‘s beak. She also learns that the headmaster was the librarian‘s uncle.

🤞🏻🤞🏻I broke my reading slump with the current gem recently rescued in a mini #bookhaul. #quotescreator #currentlyreading #missingLitsy #hellospring 🥰🙏🏻🐱😻

I am about 100 pages from the end and I am mostly annoyed and uninterested. So I am reading the end and moving on. The author lays the clues out point by point and it takes are main character who is supposed to be incredibly intelligent way too long to piece things together. All of the characters are very surface level, while we are learning a lot about the dad's back story it isn't really about him so I feel no connection to anyone here.

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie follows Flavia, an 11-year girl with pigtails, braces, and an uttermost hatred for her two sisters. However, we soon find out that she is a brilliant chemist with a passion for everything poisonous. At the beginning of the novel, Flavia “stumbles” upon a most interesting problem; a dead redhead man in the garden. Flavia then begins to try and solve the murder, in which her father is the prime suspect.

An impulse re-read. I‘ve read the whole series and felt like starting back at the beginning. This made a grreat comfort read. Apparently some of the things that irritated me on first read (mentioned in my LibraryThing review) did not bother me at all this time through.
#ShutdownReadathon round 2 book 5

Flavia reminded me of a young Sherlock Holmes. And her love of chemistry was intriguing. But the scene-setting was borderline historical fiction at times. The history of buildings and characters filled the pages with unnecessary information. This drew away from the feeling of a mystery and dragged the story out. #mytsery #fiction
Full review https://www.behindthepages.org/post/sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie-by-alan-b...

Ohhhh my @thegirlwiththelibrarybag thank you!!!! That chocolate looks divine (why did I have so much Christmas fettuccini??!) And I'm excited to own a physical Flavia! I love this series and own the audio, so it's lovely to have the first book (and now know which covers to continue buying!!) #christmaseve #Jólabókaflóðswap @MaleficentBookDragon #JolabokaflodSwap ##Jolabokaflod
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I was tempted so many times, but glad I waited!!

This week, on the Unabridged Podcast, we're sharing our picks for Cozy Reads. After our Bookish Check-ins, we chat about what the phrase "Cozy Reads" means, and then we share some other cozy comforts in our Give Me One segment.⠀
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What are some of your favorite cozy reads?

I enjoyed this one. It started out a little slow but I really liked the way it was written and I have to give applause to the translation because it was so good. I enjoyed figuring things out a little before Flavia but overall it wasn‘t as phenomenal as I thought it would be. Then again I‘m very new to reading detective novels so that might also figure into things. Nevertheless a solid mystery and an amazing translation! #translatedbooks

Getting some reading time in before my lecture! I started this book a long while ago but abandoned it quite quickly and thought I‘d give it another go to get it off from my currently reading pile😄🕵🏻‍♀️

This was a good novel about a little girl who solves a murder mystery.

Okay so I got behind on this, but still want to finish my #20series20days #top20series

Day 14: Flavia de Luce. Mysteries solved by a precocious girl who truly believes that her older sisters are trying to murder her. Flavia uses science and deduction to solve her crimes. I love these stories and Flavia.

Sunday snuggles with the latest library ebook

I‘ve really been missing my yearly fix of a new Flavia mystery...

#Top20Series #20Series20Days
Day11: Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley
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#Top20Series #20Series20Days #day5

I still need to read the most recent Flavia de Luce mystery, but I will soon. Most of these I‘ve borrowed my son and DIL‘s collection, so I just have a couple on my Kindle. Flavia is one of my favorite characters of all time. These books are a great combination of mystery, humor, and nerdiness. I really enjoy the chemistry references, probably because my dad was a chemist and I married my chemistry teacher😊

#Top20Series #20Series20Days - TWO:

I have discovered an awful truth while participating in this challenge and this is only post Number Two -> there seems to be a distinct disorganization amongst my bookshelves! Books that belong together are not gathered together and not occupying a harmonious grouped presentation.🙁 I believe I have all but the last book for this series, but where they are residing is a mystery.👇🏽

Current audiobook. 🎧

#boundtogetherjune #sweet

Day 5 - #Sweet #BoundTogetherJune
#SweetnessAtTheBottomOfThePie #AlanBradley

I found this whole series very entertaining.

I don‘t read mysteries terribly often, but this read was recommended by two dear friends, and it was a ton of fun. I love Flavia as a character—she‘s brilliant and quirky, but also makes mistakes in a realistic, 11-year-old sort of way. I‘m looking forward to reading more of this series!

Precocious young Flavia de Luce, amateur sleuth, rides her bike around Bishop's Lacey, a little village, in 1950s England. Her love of chemistry and a rather morbid imagination aid her in solving local murders. An excellent series for fans of period cozies and wicked British humor. Books in this series have won numerous prizes, including the Agatha Award.
-Erin
Find it on Libby as an eBook and eAudiobook!
#recommendsday #cozycrime

I loved this story....no reason it was just very well told

I was having a hard time picking a book the last few weeks. I started and stopped a few trying to find something light but entertaining and this fit the bill. It‘s a fun mystery and Flavia is a precocious but not annoying child protagonist. It‘s not super complicated but also not incredibly obvious. I‘m going to check out the rest of the series

I thoroughly enjoyed this historical murder mystery but will admit it is eleven year old Flavia de Luce that I fell in love with. What a clever, witty, tenacious science loving, eccentric, young genius she is. I adored how her love of potions and Sherlock Holmes-like deduction approach to solving crime was full of humor and wit. The audio was wonderful and I look forward to following young Flavia

The colorfulness of this series makes me really happy! 😄📚💕

Thank you @KristenDuck for sharing.
1. Blueberry💙
2. Strawberry Rhubarb 🍓
3. Pumpkin 🎃

Heaven must be a pkace where the library is open 24 hours 7 days a week no maybe 8

I thought Flavia was a precocious and adorable little girl. I feel like she could be inspirational to little girls who like science but maybe others in their class do not.
#beatthebacklist book 6 #theborrowers
#booked2020 eccentric main character @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Just started thus audio book this morning!

Finished the first book in my reread of the Flavia de Luce mystery series. I forgot what a delight it to get to know Flavia! She‘s such a precocious little thing, thinking she‘s so smart & that she knows everything going on but mostly is just blundering around. Love it!