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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (FLAVIA DE LUCE MYSTERY) (edition 2011)

by Alan Bradley

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Some comments are with the first book. I have high expectations that they're not going to change through the series. Can't wait for the third. I would have finished this nearly a week earlier but into the second half I decided to read the next book on my list and saved this for the very end of each day so it wouldn't end. These were so much fun. ( )
  Yona | May 2, 2013 |
Some comments are with the first book. I have high expectations that they're not going to change through the series. Can't wait for the third. I would have finished this nearly a week earlier but into the second half I decided to read the next book on my list and saved this for the very end of each day so it wouldn't end. These were so much fun. ( )
  timtest0005 | May 1, 2013 |
I enjoyed this second book in the series as much as I enjoyed the first except, of course, that I wasn't as surprised this time about how much I enjoyed it. I prefer historicals and would not normally go in search of books set in 1950 and I generally avoid books with a teenage main character. I only read the first one because a friend recommended it. ( )
  R0BIN | Apr 27, 2013 |
I enjoyed this second book in the series as much as I enjoyed the first except, of course, that I wasn't as surprised this time about how much I enjoyed it. I prefer historicals and would not normally go in search of books set in 1950 and I generally avoid books with a teenage main character. I only read the first one because a friend recommended it. ( )
  R0BIN | Apr 27, 2013 |
Excellent! Flavia DeLuce is wonderful, witty, and as smart as a whip in this sequel. While the story did not pick up as quickly as the first one, Bradley makes up for that with all the juicy gossip, affairs, and murder among the citizens of Bishop's Lacey. Feely and Daphne are still extremely annoying older sisters and it's just as much fun the second time around to watch Flavia exact her revenge upon them. Her father is still completely consumed by his stamp collection and Dogger is still...Dogger. We do get to meet Flavia's Aunt Felicity, however, and she is a force to be reckoned with. You won't be disappointed as you travel Bishop's Lacey with Flavia and her trusty sidekick Gladys, meeting new and very interesting characters. I can't wait to pick up A Red Herring Without Mustard. How great are the titles in this series! ( )
  russell.alynn | Apr 16, 2013 |
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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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Epigraph
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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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.… (more)

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