If you've talked to me, you know I like quirky things and quirky characters are included in that list. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley stars one of my all-time favorite quirky mystery characters, Flavia de Luce. Flavia is an 11-year girl in 1950s rural England. Her hobbies include being very nosy, annoying her

Because Helene-Marie Bertino, the author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, is visiting us next Wednesday evening (1/21 at 7 pm) to discuss her well-received debut novel, I’m feverishly making my way through it right now on my Google Nexus tablet. It is, in fact, my nighttime reading. Where once a stack of books rested on