by Alexander McCall Smith
Aargh! I typed out a review and it obviously didn't save - darn you, Goodreads app!Anyway, 3.5 stars, blah blah, pleasantly surprised, blah blah, will read more in the series. Bah!
Made me want to go to Edinburgh! Unlike the Number 1 Ladies' Detective series, this series of books aren't mysteries at all. But that's OK. No one reads McCall Smith to find out "who dunnit." This book was written in short segments that were serialized in a Scottish newspaper, so it's perfect for re...
Im glad I persevered... but by the time I got to the end, my initial impressions seem to have been confirmed.
Own HB but back away in horror at it. Will Auntie save the day?hah!A dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's acclaimed series based on the residents of a fictitious tenement building in a real Edinburgh New Town street, inspired by Maupin's Tales of The City.Blurb - Anthropologist Domenica MacDona...
There's really not a lot I can say about this. It was a vaguely entertaining, vaguely amusing read. I wouldn't rule out reading more Alexander McCall Smith but I certainly won't be rushing out to buy the others.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Reading 44 Scotland Street after some pretty tough books was pretty much the literary equivalent of comfort eating. Alexander McCall Smith, probably best known for his No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, has a way of writing that is funny, strangely comforting and keeps you engaged, despite not very much ...
While "44 Scotland Street" was generally a good book, I just could not enjoy it. In fact, I was unable to finish reading the book. I stopped around chapter 54. The chapters were extremely short (about 1 to 2 pages) and would generally switch between several different story threads. These threads w...
Listened to on tape (unabridged.)Review from AudioFileAlexander McCall Smith modeled this book on the evergreen hit TALES OF THE CITY, by Armistead Maupin, which were published serially in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Smith's appeared in an Edinburgh daily; the title refers to an address in Edinburg...
This was mostly okay - not his best, because his best is class and not his worst because his worst is clearly written by someone else, someone boring and published under his name.
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