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Alan Bradley’s “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”
During our February 2011 meeting, the Just Desserts mystery fiction group was scheduled to discuss the first Flavia de Luce mystery, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley. A sudden severe snowstorm in Lincoln caused the meeting to be cancelled.
For those who had finished the book and were looking forward to discussing it, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book (and series) in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
Join us next on March 31st, 2011, at South Branch Library (6:45 p.m.), as we discuss author Lee Child’s Worth Dying For, a Jack Reacher novel that’s actually set here in Nebraska. Additional titles for upcoming months’ discussions have also been posted to the Book Groups page on the libraries’ BookGuide web site.
And, for additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you’re logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts!
Mystery recommendations from Just Desserts members – January 2011
Hey, mystery fans! Looking for something good to read?
At the January Just Desserts meeting last week, after discussing our monthly “assigned” book, we did a round robin at the table, asking attendees to share what mysteries they’d been reading lately that they felt they could recommend. Here’s a list of the novels that were hot last month with this mystery-savvy crowd:
- The Tulip Virus by Danielle Hermans (via InterLibrary Loan)
- The Edge by Jeffery Deaver
- The Scumble River series by Denise Swanson
- Books by Stephen White
- Books by Harlan Coben
- Books by Gregory Iles
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (our February selection)
- The Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters
- Books by Peter Robinson
- Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen by Emily Brightwell
- The Judas Strain by James Rollins
- Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
- The Midsomer Murders series on DVD
- The Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton
- The Debutante Dropout series by Susan McBride
- The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant
- The Stiff and the Dead by Lori Avocato (not in library)
- The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White
- The City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
- What Happened at Midnight – The Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
- A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Cackleberry Club series by Laura Childs
- The Miss Zukas/Helma Zukas series by Jo Dereske
- The Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen
- I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
- The Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
- The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz
So, what mysteries have you been reading that you’d recommend?
Spencer Quinn’s “Dog On It”
During our January 2011 meeting, the Just Desserts mystery fiction group discussed Spencer Quinn’s first Chet & Bernie mystery, Dog On It.
This book was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on January 27th, 2011. Whether or not you attended the actual meeting, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book (and series) in a reply comment to this blog post, below.
Join us next on February 24th, 2011, at South Branch Library (6:45 p.m.), as we discuss author Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first in a popular new series that’s already seen three volumes released. Additional titles for upcoming months’ discussions have also been posted to the Book Groups page on the libraries’ BookGuide web site.
And, for additional reminders about upcoming Just Desserts meetings, don’t forget to sign up for the Just Desserts e-mail list. Or, if you’re logged into your account on Facebook, you can visit the Events page for the Lincoln City Libraries, and mark whether or not you plan to attend upcoming sessions of Just Desserts!
Book vs. Film: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
Mystery/Thriller fans…something you might be interested in:
Book vs. Film – Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy Discussion
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
313 N. 13th St.
402-472-5353
A screening of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the final film in the Millennium Trilogy, immediately followed by a discussion of all three books and films in the series!
Film begins at Noon. Movie talk begins at 2:30 p.m.
Admission to the movie/book talk is free, however admission to the screening is at the regular Ross prices.
For more info: www.theross.org
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mystery series
During the Nov/Dec 2010 hiatus between meetings of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, we encourage regular attendees to participate as a group in a virtual way. While we may not have an actual meeting scheduled during these two months, we want to use this blog to keep everyone active with their mystery reading and discussions.
We encourage Just Desserts participants to read any book, from any of the many generations of titles in the Hardy Boys (by Franklin Dixon) or Nancy Drew (by Carolyn Keene) mystery series for teens and youth, at some point in November or December 2010, then come back here and leave a comment about whichever Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew book they read, as a comment posted in response to this discussion topic.
As a bit of background, here are some links to The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew information:
There have also been a number of books published in the past 20 years talking about the origins of the Stratemeyer syndicate, which published both of these series, and the men and women responsible for the creation of these iconic characters.
We look forward to seeing your comments here over the course of the next two months!
Scott C. – Just Desserts coordinator