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It's all good! And I'm looking forward to reading these books

Thanks, Weave!! I think you'd really like it .

'Most exciting' most exciting?? Or just regular 'most exciting' ifyouknowwhatimeanandithinkyoudo

Yes! We clearly rock

Great review, Charm! It looks like the Women of the Otherworld series just keeps getting better and better . Can't wait to read more!

*Hugh sigh* I'm 38...

Baseball on the radio, of course . We're playing Cleveland and it's tied 1-1 right now.

Finally posted my thoughts on the Alan Bradley book, and have started the next Sookie book, Dead to the World .

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Synopsis via Waterstones: It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia -when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past. Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity. Well, I'll just say first off that I have nothing negative to say about this book. It's my favorite kind of mystery, and Flavia de Luce is my favorite kind of heroine! It's funny, not convoluted, easy to follow yet hard to solve, and Flavia is smart, clever, sassy and very wise beyond her years. I laughed a lot, and loved the way Bradley told the story from this fiesty little 11 year old's point of view. He seemed to paint perfectly a little English village that hung on tightly to its past, with all it's quirky neighbors and dark secrets. The thread of philately and chemistry throughout the story really fit with the mysterious death as well as the somewhat disfunctional family dynamic. Flavia's theories about the murder were wildly imaginative yet she was intelligent enough to deduce realistically what could have happened. I honestly can't recommend this one enough, you guys . I'm hoping to get my hands on Bradley's next book in the series ASAP!

Last night I finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and will hopefully be posting my thoughts later tonight! I thoroughly enjoyed it . I think I'll be moving on to the next Sookie book next, but I'll see what my mood is.

Bought loads of fresh veggies at the farmer's market today, so I'll soon be sautee-ing them to my hearts content, along with some tasty spinach and feta chicken sausages .

I'm trying not to watch the painful ending to a baseball game this afternoon where we're down 6-2. Sad

Welcome to BCF, Poshrottie! Happy you've joined us .

Excellent, Lucy!! I so loved that book - I hope you enjoy it too! I've got about 100 pages left of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and am honestly thinking of going out and getting it's sequel this week. If not, I'll probably start the next Sookie book - #4 in the series.

I finally saw Zombieland! (Weave will be proud of me ) It was hilarious, although I had to close my eyes a few times since I just can't stomach all that squishy bloody stuff I think my fave stuff in it was seeing all the tips about fighting zombies come up on the screen - the 'double tap' and 'cardio.' Good times!

Hello there and welcome to BCF, Kelly! Glad you joined us .

Baseball on the AM dial...

I took some chicken out of the freezer this morning, so I'll have it tonight with some sauteed zucchini, mushrooms and red onion. Yummm-O .

Morning talk radio - listening to the pundits dissect last nights political primary election races.

Glad I could help get your days off on the right foot, guys!

Yes, I do find it quite hard to concentrate on things with that desktop...

I haven't read as much as I've wanted the past few days, but I'm just a page or two past the halfway point of Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I'm loving it and am in awe of Mr. Bradley that's for sure!

Okay, but be forewarned that it's kinda steamy, ladies! Hmm, maybe I should use the spoiler tag...

We had a big potluck at work today so I wasn't much up for eating when I got home tonight. I did have some chips and my homemade salsa though, which was tasty .

Hey there and welcome to BCF, Colleen!