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After a long stretch of so-so audiobooks, I'm about 30% into The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, and delightfully narrated by Jayne Entwistle. Perhaps it is primarily due to the audio performance, but Flavia du Luce is one of the most enjoyable fictional characters I have encountered. She is an 11-year-old girl who is obsessed with chemistry, especially poisons… and she launches her own investigation of a murder after finding a stranger's body in the garden at her home. She speaks like a grown up most of the time but then does some of the most childish things that I can't help but laugh. I am thrilled that there are another four books already written in the series after this one--and a sixth due in 2014. The book is lots of fun and loaded with classic literature and classical music references.
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