Two weeks before Christmas I was wishing I had a good read to sink in to. Something to keep my mind on track and semi away from the Holiday jumbo. As luck would have it I logged on to the library's website and typed in Alan Bradley, the Flavia de Luce creator and found a fourth book in the Flavia series! I was so tickled. The book name is I Am Half-Sick of Shadows and it is based at Christmas time. How ironic that was! I requested it and picked it up in a few short days. It feels so good to wrap my mind around a good story with twists and turns. Here are a few of my favorite lines from the book.
Flavia: Most chemists, whether they admit it or not, have a favorite corner of their craft in which they are forever tinkering, mine is poisons.
Phyllis Wyvern: Kitchens are the hot beds of scandal.
Flavia: Grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own.
Dogger: I believe a man named Aristotle once said that we delight to contemplate things such as dead bodies, which in themselves would give us pain, because in them, we experience a pleasure of learning which outweighs the pain.
I recited that last one to myself when I was helping my husband gut a deer shortly after I finished the book.
I currently have found myself hooked on another book to be reviewed soon. And also I found a cool website called Goodreads from a friends blog who uses it. I have desired to find a place to compile a list of books that I want to read and so forth without having to request them from the library before I am ready. This seems to be partly what this website is all about. I was hooked on it for over an hour last night. Once I have finished my lists I plan to post them under the Reading tab of my blog.
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