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Fans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine of Canadian journalist Bradley's rollicking debut. In an early 1950s English village, Flavia is preoccupied with retaliating against her lofty older sisters when a rude, redheaded stranger arrives to confront her eccentric father, a philatelic devotee. Equally adept at quoting 18th-century works, listening at keyholes and picking locks, Flavia learns that her father, Colonel de Luce, may be involved in the suicide of his long-ago schoolmaster and the theft of a priceless stamp. The sudden expiration of the stranger in a cucumber bed, wacky village characters with ties to the schoolmaster, and a sharp inspector with doubts about the colonel and his enterprising young detective daughter mean complications for Flavia and enormous fun for the reader. Tantalizing hints about a gardener with a shady past and the mysterious death of Flavia's adventurous mother promise further intrigues ahead. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Series #1)by Alan Bradley
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It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable/i>/i>
BONUS: This edition contains a The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie discussion guide and an excerpt from Alan Bradley's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."
Editorial Reviews
An 11-year-old solving a dastardly murder in the English countryside in 1950 wouldn't seem to be everyone's cup of tea. But Flavia Sabina de Luce is no ordinary child: she's already an accomplished chemist, smart enough to escape being imprisoned by her older sisters and to exact revenge, forthright and fearless to the point of being foolhardy, and relentless in defending those she loves. When she spies on her father arguing heatedly with a strange man late at night and the next morning finds that man buried in the cucumber patch, she sets out, riding her bicycle named Gladys, to make sense of it all. And when her father-a philatelist and widower for a decade who still mourns his wife-is arrested, Flavia's efforts are intensified. She delves into the backstory, involving the death of her father's beloved teacher years earlier and the loss of a rare stamp, and puts together the pieces almost too late. The stiff-upper-lip de Luce family is somewhat stereotypically English, but precocious Flavia is unique. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award, this is a fresh, engaging first novel with appeal for cozy lovers and well beyond. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ1/09.]
Michele Leber
Adult/High School
When a stranger shows up dying in her family's cucumber patch in the middle of the night, 11-year-old Flavia de Luce expands her interests from chemistry and poisons to sleuthing and local history. The youngest of a reclusive widower's three daughters, Flavia is accustomed to independence and takes delight in puzzles and "what if's." She is well suited to uncovering the meaning of the dead snipe left at the kitchen door, the story behind the bright orange Victorian postage stamps, and-eventually-the identity of the murderer and his relationship to the dying man. Bradley sets the protagonist on a merry course that includes contaminating her oldest sister's lipstick with poison ivy, climbing the bell tower of the local boys' school, and sifting through old newspapers in the village library's outbuilding. Flavia is brave and true and hilarious, and the murder mystery is clever and satisfying. Set in 1950, the novel reads like a product of that time, when stories might include insouciance but relative innocence, pranks without swear words, and children who were not so overscheduled or frightened that they couldn't make their way quite nicely in chatting up the police or the battle-shocked family retainer. Mystery fans, Anglophiles, and science buffs will delight in this book and may come away with a slightly altered view of what is possible for a headstrong girl to achieve.-Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia
— Andrew Pyper, author of The Killing Circle
"A wickedly clever story, a dead true and original voice, and an English country house in the summer: Alexander McCall Smith meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Please, please, Mr. Bradley, tell me we'll be seeing Flavia again soon?"
— Laurie R. King, New York Times bestselling author of The Game
"One of the hottest reads of 2009."
— The Times (U.K.)
"Alan Bradley brews a bubbly beaker of fun in his devilishly clever, wickedly amusing debut mystery, launching an eleven-year-old heroine with a passion for chemistry — and revenge! What a delightful, original book!"
— Carolyn Hart, Anthony and Agatha award-winning author of Death Walked In
"Alan Bradley's marvelous book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, is a fantastic read, a winner. Flavia walks right off the page and follows me through my day. I can hardly wait for the next book. Bravo."
— Louise Penny, acclaimed author of Still Life
Praise from the CWA Dagger Award judges:
"The most original of the bunch, I think, with a deliciously deceptive opening which really sets the tone of macabre fun. Flavia is a wonderful creation, along with the rest of her eccentric family, and makes for a highly engaging sleuth. Think the Mitfords, as imagined by Dorothy L Sayers. The plot, with its intriguing philatelic elements, is nicely ingenious and delivers a very good end, with a fun twist. Would make very good Sunday night telly, I think."
"I adored this! Our heroine is refreshingly youthful, funny and sharp and the author creates such a strong sense of time and place. Flavia's eccentric family are delightful and I love seeing them interact within their crazy home. There are also interesting depths to the plot — the stamp collecting, the chemistry experiments, and the acknowledgement of past events and how they have affected these characters. The author's tone is very tongue-in-cheek and offers something quite different in this genre, and the story is cleverly structured and beautifully written. This doesn't read like a first novel. Assuming the mystery itself will be as enticing and smoothly handled as the opening, I can see Flavia solving crimes into adulthood. Great title too!"
"Really adored the voice of the characters in this — especially Flavia, the spirited main protagonist — and the sense of place is beautifully described, particularly when telling the history of the house and its inhabitants. The family unit, comprising of the taciturn, introspective Colonel and his three daughters is well written, humorous and the sibling relationships very realistic. The author should be praised for creating a work that has nostalgic interest as well as a murder mystery, in places this almost reads like an Enid Blyton novel for adults!"
Product Details
- 9780440338468
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 04/28/2009
- Series:
- Flavia de Luce Series , #1
- Sold by:
- Random House
- Format:
- NOOK Book
- Pages:
- 384
- Sales rank:
- 11,901
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It was as black in the closet as old blood. They had shoved me in and locked the door. I breathed heavily through my nose, fighting desperately to remain calm. I tried counting to ten on every intake of breath, and to eight as I released each one slowly into the darkness. Luckily for me, they had pulled the gag so tightly into my open mouth that my nostrils were left unobstructed, and I was able to draw in one slow lungful after another of the stale, musty air.
I tried hooking my fingernails under the silk scarf that bound my hands behind me but, since I always bit them to the quick, there was nothing to catch. Jolly good luck then that I'd remembered to put my fingertips together, using them as ten firm little bases to press my palms apart as they had pulled the knots tight.
Now I rotated my wrists, squeezing them together until I felt a bit of slack, using my thumbs to work the silk down until the knots were between my palms — then between my fingers. If they had been bright enough to think of tying my thumbs together, I should never have escaped. What utter morons they were.
With my hands free at last, I made short work of the gag.
Now for the door. But first, to be sure they were not lying in wait for me, I squatted and peered out through the keyhole at the attic. Thank heavens they had taken the key away with them. There was no one in sight: save for its perpetual tangle of shadows, junk and sad bric-a-brac, the long attic was empty. The coast was clear.
Reaching above my head at the back of the closet, I unscrewed one of the wire coat-hooks from its mounting board. By sticking its curved wing into the keyhole and levering the other end, I was able to form an L-shaped hook, which I poked into the depths of the ancient lock. A bit of judicious fishing and fiddling yielded a gratifying click. It was almost too easy. The door swung open and I was free.
I skipped down the broad stone staircase into the hall, pausing at the door of the dining room just long enough to toss my pigtails back over my shoulders and into their regulation position.
Father still insisted on dinner being served as the clock struck the hour and eaten at the massive oak refectory table, just as it had been when mother was alive.
'Ophelia and Daphne not down yet, Flavia?' he asked peevishly, looking up from the latest issue of The British Philatelist, which lay open beside his meat and potatoes.
'I haven't seen them in ages,' I said.
It was true. I hadn't seen them — not since they had gagged and blindfolded me, then lugged me hogtied up the attic stairs and locked me in the closet.
Father glared at me over his spectacles for the statutory four seconds before he went back to mumbling over his sticky treasures.
I shot him a broad smile: a smile wide enough to present him with a good view of the wire braces that caged my teeth. Although they gave me the look of a dirigible with the skin off, Father always liked being reminded that he was getting his money's worth. But this time he was too preoccupied to notice.
I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand-painted butterflies and raspberries, spooned out a generous helping of peas. Using my knife as a ruler and my fork as a prod, I marshalled the peas so that they formed meticulous rows and columns across my plate: rank upon rank of little green spheres, spaced with a precision that would have delighted the heart of the most exacting Swiss watchmaker. Then, beginning at the bottom left, I speared the first pea with my fork and ate it.
It was all Ophelia's fault. She was, after all, seventeen, and therefore expected to possess at least a modicum of the maturity she should come into as an adult. That she should gang up with Daphne, who was thirteen, simply wasn't fair. Their combined ages totalled thirty years. Thirty years! — against my eleven. It was not only unsporting, it was downright rotten. And it simply screamed out for revenge.
Next morning I was busy among the flasks and flagons of my chemical laboratory on the top floor of the east wing when Ophelia barged in without so much as a la-di-dah.
'Where's my pearl necklace?'
I shrugged. 'I'm not the keeper of your trinkets.'
'I know you took it. The Mint Imperials that were in my lingerie drawer are gone too, and I've observed that missing mints in this household seem always to wind up in the same grubby little mouth.'
I adjusted the flame on a spirit lamp that was heating a beaker of red liquid. 'If you're insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my galoshes.'
'Well, you can. I'm sick and tired of being blamed for everything, Feely.'
But my righteous indignation was cut short as Ophelia peered short-sightedly into the ruby flask, which was just coming to the boil.
'What's that sticky mass in the bottom?' Her long, manicured fingernail tapped at the glass.
'It's an experiment. Careful, Feely, it's acid!'
Ophelia's face went white. 'Those are my pearls! They belonged to Mummy!'
Ophelia was the only one of Harriet's daughters who referred to her as 'Mummy'; the only one of us old enough to have any real memories of the flesh-and-blood woman who had carried us in her body, a fact that Ophelia never tired of reminding us. Harriet had been killed in a mountaineering accident when I was just a year old, and she was not often spoken of at Buckshaw.
Was I jealous of Ophelia's memories? Did I resent them? I don't believe I did; it ran far deeper than that. In rather an odd way, I despised Ophelia's memories of our mother.
I looked up slowly from my work so that the round lenses of my spectacles would flash blank white semaphores of light at her. I knew that whenever I did this, Ophelia had the horrid impression that she was in the presence of some mad black-and-white German scientist in a film at the Gaumont.
'Hag!' I retorted. But not until Ophelia had spun round on her heel — quite neatly, I thought — and stormed out the door.
Retribution was not long in coming, but then with Ophelia, it never was. Ophelia was not, as I was, a long-range planner who believed in letting the soup of revenge simmer to perfection.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of many short stories, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, andAs Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust.
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The narrator is an extremely intelligent 11 yr. old girl named Flavia in the 1950's England. She lives in an old English estate, Buckshaw, in an unusual, strange, dysfunctional family. Her brilliant mind and wisdom beyond her years drives her to solve local muders and does a better job than the authorities. Well worth your time... Other books I've really enjoyed were, EXPLOSION IN PARIS, FIREFLY LANE, THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN.
This book was such an easy read. Every night I would read before bed, I would keep telling myself "just a few more pages". Flavia is the most extrordinary 11 year old ever created. Most of the time when I was reading this book I forgot that she was only a child. Bradley kept finding things to bring me back to think "holy crap, she is only 11". Things like her braces, her mode of transportation and her older sisters. Even though Flavia is so well developed, I don't hink that any of the others are at all under-developed. I think that they are developed useing Flavia as their vehicle, but developed well all the same. Once I finished this book I was thirsty for more, I wanted to know more about Flavia. When I found that Bradley has created a new Flavia book, I couldn't have been more excited. I have the new book pre-ordered, and being shipped on it's release date.
Flavia de Luce is the little girl I would have liked to be. She's brainy, headstrong and a little bit wicked. She's an independent child growing up in a motherless, eccentric household lacking in discipline and regular hours. Being the youngest child she's shirked and overlooked and has to make her own entertainment. Flavia is adventurous and concocts poisonous brews in a remote chemistry lab in the ancestral manse and doesn't hestitate to dive right in investigating a murder that takes place in the kitchen garden. This book has it all, a quirky heroine, good storytelling and a deft author. I think it will appeal especially to teenage girls and women who will identify with, cheer for and accompany Flavia on her adventure.
f there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie". When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poisons, and come to "Cyanide", I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.' " - Flavia de Luce Flavia, eleven and the youngest of three sisters, discovers a body in the cucumber patch at her family's estate, Buckshaw in the town of Bishop's Lacey. Just before he dies he utter the word "Vale". Precocious and wise beyond her years, Flavia does not tell all to the police and is determined to solve the murder herself. That was the truth: I didn't know his name. But I did know, and knew it all too well, that the body in the garden-the body with the red hair, the body in the gray suit- was that of the man I'd spied through the sturdy keyhole. The man Father had- But I could hardly tell them that. my review: I LOVED this book. Flavia is a brilliant character. Living in the English countryside in 1950, she spends her time in her chemistry lab that belonged to her now deceased mother, chemistry being her true love, and finding ways to keep up with her older sisters Ophelia and Daphne. She also has a fascination with poisons. It is charming and delightful, fun and engaging. The novel is full of interesting and colorful characters. The writing is excellent and the plot; revenge, boyhood secrets, and rare stamps, kept me hooked throughout. Flavia was really the best part and I am glad to learn that Bradley has written another Flavia mystery, due in March of 2010. I highly recommend this book! my rating 5/5
Alan Bradley has ingeniously written a witty, enthralling murder mystery starring precocious Flavia Sabina de Luce. An 11-year-old chemistry whiz, she loves experimenting in her fully equipped lab, especially concocting poisons to use in tormenting her older sisters! Living on an estate with her father and sisters in 1950's rural England, Flavia enjoys riding her bike "Gladys" in the village and countryside. One morning, she finds a dying stranger in their cucumber patch. When her father is arrested for the murder, she sets out to solve the murder, by delving into her father's mysterious years as a schoolboy. As I read, I found myself completely drawn into an engaging atmospheric mystery. Mr. Bradley is a talented storyteller. He has skillfully created an intriguing and captivating plot with a wonderful cast of compelling, well-developed characters. The story is cleverly written in first person using Flavia's unique voice. While experiencing how her mind worked, I truly enjoyed solving the mystery with her every step of the way. Also, Mr. Bradley has brilliantly intertwined very interesting chemistry trivia into the storyline. I really loved this entertaining book and I highly recommend it for everyone! I'm really looking forward to reading the second book in this series, "The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mystery". It's due out in March 2010.
I loved the entire novel, from beginning to end. Not often does a title so catch you eye that you pick up the book and then the writing gets you in a choke hold so you so can't put it down. The main character, Flavia de Luce, is a matter-of-fact, 11-year-old girl with a Machiavellian brain and the heart of poisoner. Absolutely witty and yet, very natural writing. Perhaps a bit pendantic for the character's age, but the setting in 1950s England can account for her erudition. There is a realness to the work and a quirky no-where-else-in time quality that sets the girl sleuth genre on its ear. This is not your mother's Nancy Drew. This precocious darling could make Sherlock Holmes blink in suprise and awe!
Even though this story is written in a child's voice, you find youself thinking that this child is very savy! Flavia de Luce is a very clever child and she is able to uncover secrets that have been left undiscovered for many many years. Sometimes, she does some things that are very childlike, but, for the most part, she is so cunning that she seems like a little Sherlock Holmes! She has incredible deductive reasoning and her knowledge of chemistry was much better than mine. Even though she is young, she gets around town in what I thought of as a motorized scooter. She is very mobile. Her sleuthing is not deminished by her age. She sometimes does show her childishness, and these times make the book all the more delightful! I laughed out loud when she put poison ivy in her sister's lipstick! This is a thoroughly enjoyable read, and I would recommend it to anyone, but especially mystery readers.
I cant' believe this is the author's first work, in short it's really amazing, I mean a gloriously adorable kaleidoscope of words and textures and emotions, pure bliss to read! Set in 1950's England, the mystery has a rustic feel to it but is very easy to read and enjoy. It's not often that the protagonist is an eleven year old little girl, who's as feisty and cunning as it gets. Flava de Luce has a love affair with chemistry. Glass flasks and potions are more fun than hanging out and doing kid stuff so when a murder takes place in her very own garden she's not scared, instead she challenges the world to stop her from solving it, and most important from trying to find her sweet old dad guilty. Sprinkled with clues and obstacles the story is a must read for anyone who likes something a little different and it's delicious to curl up with on a cold and dreary night. Flavia compares chemistry to witchcraft, there's something very organic and cozy about the building elements of life and how they surround us in all forms. She is a wiz at tricking her sisters and playing games on them. What kid would melt her sister's lipstick and melt it back into shape using a .45 caliber slug mold with an interesting addition mixed in, one that would teach her sister respect for the quirky youngster. Even though their mom has passed away, her spirit lives on in all the precious things she left her name on all around the house. The tale is a mystery with some really special characterization and lot's of heart, I think the author has really left his mark on the world with this novel. The mystery wasn't the hardest thing to solve, I mean it wasn't as complex as an Agatha Christie one but still a fun to read, and Flavia's brave escapades were a joy to read. At one point in the story the author lets us know that Flavia started her love for chemistry with one book that fell on her head, well I had one of those books too as a kid, I was obsessed with it, I was never as good as her at it but I know what it feels like to be spellbound by a whole new philosophy and world of unknown wonders. - Kasia S.
more interesting than many of the people I run into in the grocery store. I enjoyed this book immensely and have recommended it to several people. The plot was fine but it was the writing style, the use of language, and Miss Flavia herself that made me fall in love with this book.
I loved this book! This delightful, clever and funny murder mystery, set in 1950, is narrated by a brilliant, resourceful 11-year-old protagonist named Flavia Sabina de Luce, who lives in an English country home and whose passions are chemistry, with an emphasis on poisons, and deduction. A lot of historical charm adds dimension to this wonderful, unique storyline!
A dead man is found in Flavia de Luce's yard and her dad is arrested for his murder. She tries to solve the mystery herself, but it gets more complicated at every turn.
I loved this book! I read mystery novels almost exclusively and have found myself getting bored with the genre lately. This was a welcome change - a unique protagonist, an entertaining plot, and a great writing style. I even learned a little! A must read for mystery fans who want something fresh and light.
Just finished reading the book today, and it was great the whole way through. I absolutely could not put the book down. I took the day off from work just to finish it (sad, but true). I was just so caught up in the mystery of it all. Flavia is a wonderful heroine/protagonist. Being a bit of a nerd myself, I loved that she was so into chemistry, and just really had a great deal of knowledge, in general. Most of all, I enjoyed the relationship she had with her two older sisters,Daffy and Feely. Clearly, she was the runt of the family, and she used that to her advantage a lot in this story. All said, I recommend this book. It's fabulous :)
This is a wonderful, escapist English mystery with a quirky and hilarious main character, Flavia, who has her own chemistry lab on the 3rd floor of their English manse. When a dead body is found in the cucumber garden, Flavia is determined to solve the crime, like a young Miss Marple. I loved it..down to it's green cover!
The Real Mystery? How a 70-year old man created such a believably compelling and insightful little girl and why it took him so long to introduce her to us! Flavia de Luce is a precocious eleven year old with an obsession for chemistry and a proclivity for poisons. When she discovers a dead man in their cucumber patch, she's not scared at all. Deliciously morbid intrigue drives her to study the evidence in her fully-stocked chemistry lab at the family estate in the English countryside. In spite of two older sisters and a distant, philatelist father, Flavia uses some science, her bicycle named Gladys and a lot of logical reasoning to the aid of the police that so obviously need her expertise. It was a delightfully fresh new take on a tried and true theme. This book has a lot going on; it's in a historical setting, the narrator is a little girl, and I've never learned so much about stamp-collecting. Flavia holds it all together beautifully as she fearlessly investigates the most exciting event in her young memory, uncovering clues and motives that will send chills down even the most mature spine. I'm eager to see how the young ingenue grows into a young lady in the coming books!
"Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?" pg. 419 Flavia is an eleven year old girl with a huge imagination, a gift for chemistry, and a love of "solving." She lives at Buckshaw with her father and two sisters (Ophelia - 17 y.o., and Daphne - 13 y.o.). After a dead bird is found by their door and a dead body in the garden, Flavia sets out to solve the crime. Did someone in her own house do this? If so, who? If not, who acted unnoticed around them? Flavia calls on all of her knowledge to puzzle out pieces to the puzzle. But, will she figure it out in time? Will she be found out? I really enjoyed this book and had a hard time putting it down. While it was hard to think of an eleven year old working through some of these scientific puzzles, it was also intriguing to step into her mind. It was fun to read about her process for extracting poisons from plants. The characters are fun, and the story drew me in. If you haven't read a fun mystery lately, this is the book for you! I hope it becomes a series so that I can follow her exploits!
What a breath of fresh air! There are jewels on nearly every page of this delightful mystery. I'm always drawn to adult books written about children, and Flavia certainly did not disappoint. I was hooked from the first page, and am so glad that this is only the first book in the series!
This was a fantastic book, depending largely on the charms of its protagonist (the titular 11 year old chemistry prodigy). It's well-written and clever, and while the mystery isn't terribly difficult to figure out, the writing and the characters keep you invested anyway.
I've been writing a lot of reviews lately and they have all been mostly negative. I'm so happy to say that this book is a great read. I really like Flavia, the 11 yr old protagonist. She is sassy and too smart for her own good. I love that she decides she is going to solve the crime herself (in fact, she solves two)and persists despite all the obstacles in her way. Along with her faithful steed Gladys, Flavia is tireless in her pursuit of the truth, even if it means climbing ontop of a roof or confronting the Bad Guy. This is an unusual mystery with an unusual detective. Long live Flavia.
Flavia de Luce is a confident, gifted 11 year old that dapples in chemistry, her specialty is poison. She is determined to solve a mystery (the dead man she found in the cucumbers) and manages to get herself into quite a few tight spots, a little like Nancy Drew would but with much more character. This is the first of the series and it was a fun read.
The perfect murder mystery for someone who doesn't like creepy, sadistic murder mysteries. Flavia's quick wit and perspective on the world make this novel a winner.
Both author Bradley and his main girl Flavia are whip smart, concocting stories that are wickedly entertaining. A must read.
Ok ... I love the terribly precocious and insurmountable Flavia: her fascination with science in general, and her extensive knowledge of chemistry especially poisons, her vengeful relationship with her sisters, her wistful longing for her mother, her protective attitude of her father and Dogger. It's a Brit detective story set in the countryside with a good dose of dark humor. Can't wait to read the rest of the series.
This is a great book for young adult readers. The character is unique, funny and memorable. I give it high marks and well worth your time and effort, especially younger readers
Could not finish it. Kept hoping the characters would devleop more but gave up about 1/2 way through. Don't understand what the attraction was.


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As chair of the House Select Committee on Water Policy, I, along with other members of the committee, have been charged with looking at Florida's water policy, including changes to federal policy that may significantly impact Florida's ability to manage its own resources. An example of such federal policy is the numeric nutrient criteria mandate that the Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized for Florida.
As it stands, the EPA singled out Florida as the only state subject to these federal standards -- despite the fact that Florida has been a national leader in aggressively enforcing water-quality standards to protect our streams, lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Our state has invested millions of dollars over the past three decades through an EPA-approved Total Maximum Daily Load program, which has helped achieve substantial progress in reducing phosphorous levels in Florida waters. If any state should be hit with intrusive, invasive and indefensible water regulations, it shouldn't be Florida.
In fact, a recent report showed that the water quality in Sarasota Bay continues to improve because of the work being done by the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program. Among the improvements were an addition of 3,000 artificial reefs, the restoration of more than 650 acres of saltwater wetlands and a 64 percent reduction in nitrogen pollution since 1988.
Another example of proven water quality is in Tampa Bay. According to the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium, "The adaptive nutrient management strategy developed for the Tampa Bay estuary through this stakeholder-initiated process has led to documented water quality improvements and the protection of full aquatic life support in Tampa Bay."
This is why I recently filed legislation to keep Florida's water rules in the hands of Florida's government. Our current state programs are working. House Bill 239, titled Numeric Nutrient Water Quality Criteria, will make sure that the EPA's flawed nutrient standards do not derail the state's successful water quality programs. This legislation directs the state to stay on track with sound science and only promulgate standards tailored to the needs of Florida water bodies, not rubber-stamp the EPA's scientifically invalid nutrient rules.
The state, local governments, water treatment officials and others have all recently sued the EPA for its overreach on Florida's water policy -- a policy that is expected to cost Florida's employers and families billions to implement. That means if the EPA and environmental groups that forced this policy through a lawsuit get their way, much higher utility bills are coming for all Floridians.
I applaud Florida's congressional delegation for standing up for Florida in a bipartisan manner, and I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on this important legislation. Water quality in our state is a Florida issue. The EPA's mandates are unprecedented, unworkable and unscientific, and we must work together to ensure that Florida's destiny stays in our hands and will not be subject to a takeover by the federal government.
State Rep. Trudi K. Williams is a professional engineer who serves District 75 in Lee and Collier counties. E-mail: email@example.com
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Yes! This is a good networking event, and a chance to get real experience if you pursue volunteering. Also, clients and jobs bubble up.
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Participants can introduce themselves to the entire group and followup at the restaurant to talk with potential prospects and community investors at the restaurant and also at the Conference Room above the restaurant. A fun way to expand one's awareness and circle of support!
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Medford becomes Deadford... Let's go watch as the town is taken over by zombies. There's music, face painting, a costume contest... should be interesting.
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All the members posting photos...We're you at the same event as me? The only thing that was dead there was that place. Maybe I was expecting more out of that zombie crawl, I was expecting something more like what you see in the movies I guess. I thought it would be like an over the top display.
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Why not meet in the parking lot behind the Municipal Center on Main Street?
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Welsh local authorities criticised for failing to record anti-gay school bullying
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It should by now be a legal obligation to keep these statistics.
I think if they were kept people would be surprised how much homophobic bullying there is. In my experience it doesn't even need to be overtly homophobic as it is difference that singles out the victims and many kids who haven't even identified as gay are already showing that difference that marks them out. They may then go on later to identify as gay.
This does make it difficult to identify but a start must be made.
Well said, twitless, and as someone who was bullied throughout school for being trans (including by some of the teachers) I'd like to second that. The abuse I got was often both homophobic, sexist and misogynistic in nature as bullies often aren't sensitive or intelligent enough to know what 'transgender' means let alone understand.
As you say, the problem is more widespread than schools or society at large seems to want to let on: LGBT pupils and those perceived as LGBT are often subject to severe bullying which often has a tendency to become sexually abusive in nature by the time we reach our early teens. Schools often sweep student-on-student sexual harassment under the carpet too. Unfortunately, I speak from personal experience and I know that I'm not the only one. Local authorities need to realise that kids are still going through this right now – and ending their torment (and sometimes even saving their lives) should be a priority right now!
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Today, I woke up to the sounds of birds singing, the smell of butter pancakes in the air and thought to myself "Wow, today is going to be great day. I can feel it!" Excited, I jumped out of my bed and threw open the door to see my 58 year old mother doing her morning stretches in the nude. FML
by MrMagicMan000 / 08/25/2009 at 2:47am / United States (Illinois) / Animals
Today, I was flirting with this guy that had been forced to be my lab partner for class. He was really funny and attractive, too. In the middle of our conversation he said "You're so cute! You remind me of my boyfriend!" FML
by NotCuteEnough / 08/24/2009 at 5:27pm / United States (Illinois) / Love
Today, I got my first period. My dad bought me a card and had everyone in my family sign it. FML
by embarassed_chick / 08/24/2009 at 3:59pm / United States (Illinois) / Miscellaneous
Today, my son hit my husband's shop-vac while pulling into the garage too fast. He was grounded for 3 days. Later, while trying to demonstrate how to park safely, I hit my husband in his happy sacks with the mirror. FML
by Anonymous / 08/23/2009 at 7:00pm / United States (Illinois) / Transportation
Today, my husband decided to drain his motorcycle oil into an empty bottle of laundry detergent. Also today, I decided to lift a stain out of my white comforter with some detergent I found in the garage. FML
by Anonymous / 08/22/2009 at 3:48pm / United States (Illinois) / Miscellaneous
Today, I gathered the courage to ask my crush on a date. As I called her, she quickly answered and said "Can't talk right now, I'm in a movie theater." and then hung up. I'd called her home phone. FML
by sophistication / 08/21/2009 at 11:36am / United States (Illinois) / Love
Today, everyone in my department got a raise except for me. Last week, I had been the one who asked for a raise for me and my fellow department members. FML
by Anonymous / 08/21/2009 at 12:52am / United States (Illinois) / Work
Today, I was at a local chinese restaurant with two of my friends. We were laughing hysterically when my friend tells me to stop making her laugh because she was going to puke, naturally I kept egging it on. She puked all over the table and I was laughing so hard that I peed my pants. FML
by Anonymous / 08/20/2009 at 1:30am / United States (Illinois) / Miscellaneous
Today, and for quite some time, my girlfriend has been telling me that she needs to go home each night to take care of her cat. Taking care of her cat is, it seems, an euphemism for having it off with her neighbor Tom since her cat died three months ago. FML
by catguy / 08/19/2009 at 5:08am / United States (Illinois) / Love
Today, I was calling my cable company to tell me how to fix my internet. I stayed on hold for almost half an hour, and then when someone finally picked up, my phone died. FML
by stuff / 08/16/2009 at 12:36am / United States (Illinois) / Miscellaneous
Today, while working as a parking booth attendant I decided to be nice and offer a woman free parking. I said, "give me a high five and I'll give you free parking since I already did the paper work." She said, "I'd rather pay," with a really disgusted look. I also had to redo the paper work. FML
by ParkingGuy / 08/14/2009 at 8:19pm / United States (Illinois) / Work
Today, my parents decided to visit me. When I first got my apartment I gave them a key "just in case" and today they used this key to enter when I didn't answer their knocking. I didn't answer because I was having sex with my boyfriend. My parents saw everything. They didn't know I was gay. FML
by gorgeousrenthead / 08/10/2009 at 7:41pm / United States (Illinois) / Intimacy
Today, I found why exactly my clothes always seemed more stretched out after about a week of owning them. My mom steals and wears them when she goes clubbing. My mom is 46, twice my size, and gets out more than me. FML
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Sample Mediterranean dishes from land and sea at our Cannes restaurants
Enjoy your meal with a side of ocean breeze at the rooftop restaurant and bar Le 360°, or complement your trip to the spa with a healthy dish from Restaurant Le Bio, known for its signature O'Bento Boxes. No matter which of our Cannes restaurants you choose, you're sure to leave satisfied.
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Our chef, Reynald Thivet, has created 6 menus for this event. Our lounge bar is also open for enjoying a cocktail and the fireworks.
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I'll be playing at Port Cape Girardeau this Thursday evening. Love to see you there.
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I'll be playing at Port Cape Girardeau this Thursday evening. Love to see you there.
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I'll be playing at Port Cape Girardeau this Thursday evening. Love to see you there.
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I'm playing the 1st & 3rd Thursdays in November & December at Port Cape Girardeau. So if you think you might forget; mark a teeny, red checkmark or one of those "smiley face" things in the upper right-hand corner of those upcoming Thursday's on your social calendar, as a reminder. I'm pretty darn sure it will be my usual hodge-podge of original tunes, mixed quite tastefully, if I do say so myself, with old folk classics and my esoteric musical "stylizations" of some favorite artists from yesterday & today. Mostly yesterday. Hopefully you'll recognize a few of them. Hopefully I'll remember some of the chords. Hopefully everyone will start throwing back shots of Patrón tequila and not really notice I've forgotten most of the lyrics to the 2nd verse... and part of the chorus... and the chords during the bridge section... and what I did last Tuesday... and my dog's name... Sparky, I think?
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Wow... is that a Thursday I see stuck right in-between Wednesday and Friday on this week's calendar? Can that be correct? Why yes, I believe it is... and you know what that means, right? Uh-huh, I'll be strumming around on a guitar and singing them good ole numbers you've come to know and tolerate. Why not make your way on down to Water St., check out the flood-wall murals and then, take advantage of Port Cape's $2.50 PROJECT - special pricing on your favorite libations - and appetizer discounts too. I'll wait until you get there to play all the songs you'll hear after you arrive... promise. Maybe we'll do a group sing of every verse to "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall"... or maybe we'll do that at a later date... You won't know if you don't show!
Sounds Like: Chris David Moore, Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, John Prine
. I started out playing classical violin in grade school... then I heard my first Bob Dylan record, immediately lost interest in J.S. Bach and got my hands on a 6-string acoustic guitar. I eventually focused on electric bass; which I played for much of my musical life.
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"As if an afternoon spent at the winery isn't enjoyable enough, Hunter Valley Winery has booked Chris Moore to play for Cape Girardeau oenophiles... Relax with a bottle of their original, award-winning wines, a dish from the new menu and tunes from Moore and his guitar."


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How Van Halen Jumped Over the Edge With Their Third Album, 'Women and Children First'
Van Halen released 'Women and Children First' in March 1980.
Van Halen released 'Women and Children First' in March 1980.
Sammy Hagar says his first departure from Van Halen was a big mistake on the band's part.
The future of Van Halen might have appeared to be in doubt after David Lee Roth left the band in 1985, but they quickly rebounded with new singer Sammy Hagar.
"The '80s are coming and we're going to be the soundtrack. We're here to blow the bugles and jump on the horns and whistle it all in and usher it down the road and round the stretch and across the finish line."
Sammy Hagar adds two new songs to a solo-career greatest hits collection, leading to a dispute with his Van Halen bandmates.
Early 1995 found Van Halen heading back out on the road with a No. 1 album on the chart — but trouble was brewing.
Described as Richard Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to 'Dazed and Confused,' this new film follows a group of friends through their college adventures.
Excerpts from the book 'Van Halen Rising' show how the group won over fans across the world, while also impressing peers such as Journey and the Rolling Stones.
Tucked away inside the latest episode of David Lee Roth's 'Roth Show' was a mournful new song – and it's resulted in some ruminating among Van Halen fans.
Hard rock hadn't really hatched a band like Van Halen before 1978.
Van Halen are going to the Super Bowl! Sort of.


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Dodge Viper highway showoff goes predictably wrong in crash video
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There's a scene in the James Bond movie, Casino Royale, where Daniel Craig's Agent 007 is captured by villain Le Chiffre, played by Mads Mikkelsen. Le Chiffre tortures Bond in a scene that is rather difficult to watch (especially for blokes) and impossible to describe on these digital pages (Google at your own risk). This video is the automotive equivalent of the Casino Royale torture scene.
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This Week's Housing Headlines
It's been a low-key week on the housing front, but we've still managed to dig through the headlines and find stories that matter. Check out our weekly summary. More
Discussions on owning or renting a home, the housing market and housing finance.
It's been a low-key week on the housing front, but we've still managed to dig through the headlines and find stories that matter. Check out our weekly summary. More
House prices are up, but some big cities still have a good supply of affordable homes. Click through for that story and more in our weekly roundup. More
During the crisis, we learned there were 5 major factors for successful loss mitigation. More
Mortgage rates drop again and approach their all-time lows. Read on for more noteworthy headlines in our weekly roundup. More
July 4th is a holiday to spend with family and friends, enjoying backyard barbecues, and, of course, watching fireworks. It's also the day we celebrate our nation's birthday and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. More
The last time the homeownership rate in the U.S. hit 50% was in the 1940s. Could it happen again? That story and more in our weekly news roundup. More
Credit risk transfer is changing the way a significant portion of the U.S. single-family housing market is funded. Learn about it's 3 main benefits. More
We've waded through the week's housing news so you don't have to. Here are just some of the interesting headlines we came across. More
Congratulations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development on its Single-Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program's 25th anniversary! Freddie Mac looks forward to working together even more closely over the next 25. More
We're celebrating an important corporate milestone – the transfer of a significant amount of mortgage credit risk on $650 billion in unpaid principal balance of single-family and multifamily loans. More


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On the Morality of Eating Sentient Beings vs. Veganism.
I posted this funny bit, and the following discussion (that every philosophically, morally-oriented college kid ever has had) ensued:
David: The soil itself is teeming with animal life. Eating any food harvested by turning the soil kills billions of sentient beings. Eating one larger animal causes less suffering that eating a carrot or a potato or anything where one has to dig into the ground.
Waylon Lewis You think harvesting chickens doesn't impact the earth? You think bugs the size of dust mites have the same intelligence or feeling as a sentient being? That goes against science, or Buddhist thought for that matter.
Still, you make an interesting point..!
Of course harvesting chickens impacts the earth! And I am very much pro growing our own food, esp; through gardening.
But we must realize that all eating, all life involves death to those we consume and destroy their habitat. Also all an…imal life is considered sentient in Buddhist thought. All have equal right to life and freedom from suffering. Furthermore I didn't equate one chicken to one dust mite. I equated one chicken to billions of tiny creatures. And I also realize that each chicken also eats and destroys millions of smaller beings.
My point is that we need to expand our awareness of the life and death consequences of our actions and not just accept easy answers.
Waylon Lewis Actually, in Buddhism, they'd side with you…Buddhists urge eating one cow vs. 100 shrimp, for example.
On other hand, Buddhists say that human life is more precious because there's more ability to wake up, more inherent intelligence…and extending that logic to animals, we might say that it's preferable to eat plants and bugs and simpler forms of life rather than those, like pigs or cows, that clearly evidence feeling and intelligence.
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THEATER; In Bali, All the Post-9/11 World's a Stage
By RON JENKINS
Published: October 12, 2003
DENPASAR, Bali— ''WHERE is my leg?'' moaned a disembodied head in a temple courtyard a few miles from the site of last year's terrorist bombings in Bali. ''Where is my arm?''
This past August, the memory of the carnage was still vivid to the audience, but the actor playing a victim of the bombings turned the mood of hushed dread into one of comedy, evoking sudden peals of laughter by quoting the tagline of a popular Indonesian television show about the undead: ''Don't watch me! I'm not here!''
''The audience laughed out of relief,'' said Gusti Ngurah Windia, a well-known Balinese actor, as he recalled his performance a few days later. He was sitting on the porch of his home in the village of Carang Sari, several miles from the southern town of Kuta, where the bombings took place. ''For a moment, the horror of their memories was transformed into fiction, a dream from a television melodrama, as if it never really happened.''
A year ago today, more than 200 people were killed in the terrorist attack by Islamic radicals. In other parts of the globe a similar assault might have led to ethnic retaliation, but the Balinese, living on the only Hindu island in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, answered with art.
During the last 12 months, performers in temple courtyards, village halls and on television frequently have used traditional Balinese theater forms -- masked comedies, shadow plays and folk operas -- to refer to the attack and its aftermath, which has shattered the island's tourist-driven economy.
Another response took place on Nov. 15, 2002, when purification ceremonies, accompanied by theater, music and dance performances, were staged in every village across the island.
This grassroots event stretched as far as New York, where, on the same day, Balinese musicians in sarongs and flowered head-dresses led a ceremonial procession from the World Trade Center site to the Battery Park Esplanade. Among the hundreds of Americans and Indonesians who participated were family members of the American victims of the Bali bombing. They joined a masked Balinese performer in throwing flowers into the Hudson River, a Hindu ritual symbolizing the release of the soul to heaven.
Wearing the sacred mask of Sidha Karya, a mythological Balinese figure representing death and renewal, Nyoman Catra, the performer, surveyed the scarred skyline of Manhattan and said, ''People are trying to destroy our world, our country, our village.'' In keeping with Balinese tradition, he was playing a character in a 15th-century story, but he was also speaking of contemporary events as he connected the terror victims of the two islands -- Bali and Manhattan -- by turning them into inhabitants of one town.
''Maybe the bombers wanted to create chaos and fighting between Hindus and Muslims,'' said Made Sumadi, an official in Bali's ministry of religion, during an interview in August near the island's capital, Denpasar. ''But we did not respond the way the bombers expected. In Bali we responded to violence with peace. The bomb had a great impact on everyone, but it could not stop our performances.''
The anthropologist Clifford Geertz called 19th-century Bali a theater-state, where performances were inextricably linked to politics, religion and the problems of everyday life. Similar theatrical impulses exist in 21st-century Balinese society, where almost every village temple ceremony includes some form of theatrical event, with clown narrators serving as mediators between the invisible world of gods and ancestors and the tangible one of current events. In improvised dialogues, the clowns grapple with issues like globalization and overdevelopment that endanger the island's Hindu-animist traditions.
In traditional Balinese mythology, an era marked by death and violence is referred to as ''Kali Yuga'' or ''the time of Kali,'' a reference to the Hindu deity of destruction. Many Balinese performers have invoked Kali Yuga as a metaphor for the chaos brought on by the bombings. This context has encouraged the Balinese to forgo violent acts of revenge and respond instead with religious offerings designed to restore spiritual harmony to the universe.
In August, shortly after the trial that condemned a mechanic, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, known as Amrozi, to death for his role in the Bali bombings, a troupe of actors assembled in the village of Kerobokan, a few miles north of Kuta, to put on a play in a temple courtyard. The plot was based on an ancient legend, but the clown narrators made numerous references to Amrozi, including a slapstick gag in which one character jumped in fright at the sound of a slamming door because he thought it was a terrorist attack. Anxiety of this type is a recurring source of comedy in Bali. ''Every time somebody burps, I think it's a bomb,'' joked another clown.
Later, an actor in a buck-toothed mask ran aggressively into the audience. ''Don't worry!'' he shouted. ''I'm not Amrozi.'' He then told a story about a black magic curse that had left shops without customers. As the characters in the play overcame the curse by performing ritual offerings, spectators staged similar ceremonies of renewal to exorcise evil and invoke prosperity. A procession of elderly women in sarongs snaked through the courtyard between the actors and the audience, while a white-bearded priest chanted mantras on a flower-covered shrine. The boundaries between the play and the audience dissolved further when a woman in the crowd began sobbing and flailing her arms.


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Disc 1
- Salvation Is Here
- Tell the World
- Look to You
- All I Need Is You
- All for Love
- Shout Unto God
- There Is Nothing Like
- What the World Will Never Take
- Only One
- Deeper
- Til I See You
- Rest in You
- Awesome God
Disc 2
- Bonus Material
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Look to You, Hillsong United's sixth live album, was the album that defined the career of the maturing Australian ensemble. Before that, these modern worshipers were merely a more rocking, youth-oriented extension of their grown-up Hillsong counterparts, exchanging songs and ideas with them but never quite nailing an entire album with their own distinctive stamp. Look to You was different. The disc marked the beginning of a new era for them: it saw them moving beyond stock pop
ock musicianship and vertical sentiments into something more genuinely heartfelt, more passionate, more substantive than their collective talents and their annualized concert recordings. Previous outings were hit and miss -- overlong, meandering worship marathons long on repetition and youthful praise workouts. By contrast, every moment on Look to You is nearly indispensable, each an essential component of a bigger whole, whether it's a melodic post-punk romp ("Tell the World," "What the World Will Never Take"), a hair-raising battle cry ("Shout Unto God"), or a take-no-prisoners corporate ballad ("All for Love," "There Is Nothing Like"). That's only a small sampling; it's ineffectual to pick favorites from an album where every song contributes significantly to the overall dynamic. Look to You is an early pinnacle in the still adolescent trajectory of Hillsong United.
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