The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie:
A Flavia de Luce Novel
by Alan Bradley
This is one I picked up from the library a couple of days ago. It's the first in this mystery series, and I put it on reserve after seeing the series in Juhli's post about her book store wish list recently. It is a hoot. A mystery whose main character and sleuth is a precocious eleven years old who is a chemistry whiz.
I'm scheduling this post on Friday night (for posting on Wednesday) and I'm only about 1/4 of the way into it. I'm not sure if I will have much time to read while I'm away at the quilt retreat, so finishing it is up in the air at this point.
Since I cancelled my Audible subscription after the first month (and my garage clean out), the company has been emailing me 'special' deals. Today (Friday 11/1) they sent one I was totally on board with.
In case there is election talk at the retreat that I want to tune out, I have charged my ear buds and downloaded this Audible book:
Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth
I believe it is about a megastar author who is behind getting her next book finished, and is hiding the fact that she is starting to suffer the onset of dementia. She enlists the help of a superfan of her previous work to keep her on point with past story details.
Quilting by hand is something that doesn't take a lot of concentration for the most part, so there is nothing I love more than being read to while I do it!
Those are my books for this week. I'm not sure how much time I will have to spend with either of them until I get home, but surely some, even if it's only in the car. The Audible way...I don't read while I'm driving! :)
My mother used to turn on the TV and quilt right in front of it, mainly just to listen while she spent hours working on her latest project! You reminded me that I need some new books to read...
ReplyDeleteI've never had my frame in a room where the TVs are/were, so rely on audiobooks, podcasts, and NPR (I love their author interviews). I now have a smaller frame made from PVC pipe, but haven't hand quilted at home in ages, because I don't want Rudy laying on the edges of the quilt that pool on the floor under it.
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