It is a book that brings me peace when I read it. Learning about the life in Botswana and this bright woman that is achieving the things she believes in is just so inspiring and amusing! Great book!
It is a book that brings me peace when I read it. Learning about the life in Botswana and this bright woman that is achieving the things she believes in is just so inspiring and amusing! Great book!
I really liked the first book in this series, so I had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, I found it a bit dull until the last third. The solutions of each case felt too unrealistic, even for Mma. Ramotswe's standards and I felt the only interesting parts were the ending and the promotion of Mm...
I am enjoying this series very much. I enjoy Smith's characters and style and plan on take a look at his other series. They make for light and entertaining reads that still pack a punch.
After reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency a couple of years ago, I accumulated a few of these, and went through 6 in less than a month. They're very quick reads - I read 2 and part-of-a-third in one day.They're very entertaining, charming, and compulsively readable. Although marketed as myster...
The only thing with these books is that I read them and constantly think about the fact that an old white man is writing from the perspective of an African woman, and I can't wrap my head around that.
Better than the first in the series, or perhaps, now having been to Botswana, the images are more vivid and the relationships more culturally nuanced. The parallelism is a bit thick, but I was entertained. Audiobook narrator Lisette Lecat does a lovely job of differentiating characters not only by v...
Tears of the Giraffe picks up where The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency left off. Mma Ramotswe has just agreed to marry Rra Matekoni. Mr J.L.B. Matekoni is a plain, good man who is an auto mechanic. That is one thing I love about his character in particular. My father is also a mechanic who can t...
Some very unconventional sleuthing by a rather fascinating detective -- an African (Botswana) 'Miss Marple' -- in the first book of 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series! Deliciously engaging!
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