What makes this book especially satisfying is its sensory richness. The attention to detail is so precise you can practically smell the bread cooling on the racks, the sharpness of cheese, the damp stone after rain. It is comfort reading with substance: sunshine and laughter paired with the everyday complications life throws at us, and the quiet resilience required to meet them.
This is not a book about capital-H heroes. Instead, it centers on people who engage in small acts of service, kindness, and yes, heroism—not for recognition or glory, but because it was the right thing to do in the moment. These are stories of people showing up when it would have been easier not to.
The Locked Room is clever, cozy without being complacent, and deeply satisfying for puzzle-lovers. If you adore classic detective fiction but crave a fresh perspective, Harriet White deserves a place on your shelf—and very likely, in your reading rotation for a long while to come.
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There is also something deeply comforting about the cultural shorthand Spencer-Fleming uses. References to PBS, public radio–adjacent sensibilities, and a certain late-20th-century, educated-Northeast worldview made me feel instantly at home. It is clear the author lives in or very near my cultural zeitgeist, and those small, knowing touches add a layer of authenticity that is easy to underestimate and hard to fake.There is also something deeply comforting about the cultural shorthand Spencer-Fleming uses. References to PBS, public radio–adjacent sensibilities, and a certain late-20th-century, educated-Northeast worldview made me feel instantly at home. It is clear the author lives in or very near my cultural zeitgeist, and those small, knowing touches add a layer of authenticity that is easy to underestimate and hard to fake.
Diets are meant to be broken on horrible days. Hope it cheered you up! HappyWW!
looks delicious!!
MMMM…looks like potatoes and cheese, yummy!
that looks absolutely delicious!!
happy WW!
ps.love your template :)
ooppsss. I meant “theme”. :)
Oooh…looks good!! That is one of my comfort foods too!
Looks yummy! Happy WW!
I guess it tastes good if it is called comfort food.
oh my! that looks soooo tasty. enjoy a bowl for me. :)
happy ww!
Just said farewell to dinner guest, I am stuffed…but there is always a little room for macaroni and cheese.
I read your twitter and figured out what it was. I would have never guessed mac and cheese!
That looks tasty. I bet it was tasty too. Happy WW
Happy WW. I think Mac ‘n cheese is everyone’s comfort food!
Yummy! Can I join you and your family? Heheh
I used to eat mac and cheese but now I don’t like them. I think it’s the cheese – not very fond of cheese.
Hope it make you feel better.
Extra strong cheddar sounds and looks so good
I’m funny about foods, and this does not look good to me, hehe, but my husband and boys would be drooling!
I’d like to see a pic of the pooch and the tomato! LOL
mmm…mac ‘n’ cheese…it’s 8 AM here and yet I’m still drooling over it like Homer Simpson :-)
It looks great and I am sure it tasted heavenly! happy ww :)
Save some for me! It looks sooo good!
Oops silly me…I was so distracted by the comfort food that I forgot to mention that Michele sent me. Mea culpa :-)
Sometimes it just has to be about how it makes us feel to eat and not so much about how it looks
Yum
Yum! I think I could live on Mac n’ Cheese!
Happy WW!
Have never tried this–or even tasted anything like it.Would like to though!
Before I even clicked onto your blog, when I’d just seen the title of the post in my feedreader, I already thought MAC AND CHEESE! Great minds think alike.
that looks good. mac n´ cheese will be alright.
oh… I don´t know how it taste but if I look at the picture a have no hunger any more
I haven’t had mac and cheese in . . . oh, jeez, at least a year. Looks good, though.