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Andra boken med den brådmogna elvaåriga Flavia de Luce som bor på ett förfallet gods i England under 1950-talet. En dag kommer en berömd dockteater ledd av tv-celibriteten Rupert Porson till byn. Mitt under en föreställning dör Porson i ett elektriskt haveri. Flavia förstår genast att det inte rör sig om en olyckshändelse.… (mer)
y2pk: Pre-teen girl investigating adult crimes, while putting up with her sometimes-strange family and home life. Emma Graham also appears in two other books, Cold Flat Junction and Belle Ruin. They should be read in order.
Usually not a fan of books with 11 or 12 year old narrators, but enjoyed this.A mild and amusing mystery with an entertaining and imperfect tween narrator ( )
Really enjoyed this mystery set in 1950 and told from the viewpoint of an eleven year old girl, Flavia de Luce. Flavia is the youngest of three sisters whose father is often withdrawn and absorbed in his stamp collection, and whose mother was killed in a climbing accident soon after Flavia was born. Intelligent, imaginative and precocious, she is a keen amateur chemist with a special interest in poisons. Flavia views the adults around her with a shrewd clear eyed understanding and is extremely adept at manipulating them when necessary, but is at the mercy of her cruel older sisters. Her one ally is the manservant at her family's stately home, Dogger, who has psychological issues due to wartime experiences, but is also very astute.
This is the second in a series which consists of seven books with an eighth due out this September. On the strength of this, I will definitely read the others. ( )
Again, as with the first book in the series, whilst I enjoyed this murder mystery written from the view of the 11 year old prodigy Flavia de Luce, I found the self consciously "English" eccentricity a little too overdone, almost as if we were in a post WWII theme park version of the UK. The anglophile POW was just a step too far for me. All in all a pleasant read but I won't be seeking out the rest of the series. ( )
The secret of the novel’s charm involves the way in which Flavia teeters on the border between precocity and childishness, spouting faux-cynical epithets that result from the fact that her intellectual gifts far outpace her emotional capacity.
All in all, it’s a perfectly detailed and credible English village in the Agatha Christie manner, inhabited by people you can believe in and sympathize with.
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Sir Walter Raleigh To His Son
Three things there be that prosper up apace, And flourish while they grow asunder far; But on a day, they meet all in a place, And when they meet, they one another mar.
And they be these; the Wood, the Weed, the Wag; The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree; the Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag; The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.
Now mark, dear boy -- while these assemble not, Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild; But when they meet, it makes the timber rot, It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.
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Again, for Shirley
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I was lying dead in the churchyard.
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"Children ought to be horsewhipped," she used to say, "unless they are going in for politics or the Bar, in which case they ought in addition to be drowned."
"Fetch my luggage, Clarence," she said, "and mind the alligator."
Seen from the air, the male mind must look rather like the canals of Europe, with ideas being towed along well-worn towpaths by heavy-footed dray horses. There is never any doubt that they will, despite wind and weather, reach their destination by following a simple series of connected lines.
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"if anyone wants me," I said, "I shall be upstairs, weeping at the bottom of my closet."
Andra boken med den brådmogna elvaåriga Flavia de Luce som bor på ett förfallet gods i England under 1950-talet. En dag kommer en berömd dockteater ledd av tv-celibriteten Rupert Porson till byn. Mitt under en föreställning dör Porson i ett elektriskt haveri. Flavia förstår genast att det inte rör sig om en olyckshändelse.
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