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Title: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 1-4000-3135-4 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fun, Fabulous Book!
Comment: Last week I finished reading the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and just last night I finished reading the next one, Tears of the Giraffe.
I am so tickled to have discovered another author whose work I just love. My entire family is now reading these books by Alexander McCall Smith and everyone is loving them.
It isn't often you come on a book quite so fun, so interesting, so well constructed, or one that really moves you. These books are doing it to me, in spades. Tears of the Giraffe follows the lady detective, Precious, and it expands, introducing more characters, all ones that feel real, ones that are easy to care about. These books take place in Africa, in Botswana, a place that this author is putting on the map. I write too...and I am always looking for authors who can write books that are fun to read, books where I have to keep turning pages, but especially books with characters that I give a damn about. Tears of the Giraffe has it all but I would recommend that you start with the first one, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and take it from there. Best bunch of new novels for the Summer of 2003!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Return of Mma Ramotswe
Comment: Here is the second in Smith's acclaimed new series about the only female private investigator in Botswana. Although more episodic than his debut volume, it maintains the latter's quality with its lyrical style, careful pace, and rich evocation of culture, country, and characters. (I am inevitably reminded of my all-time favorite detective writer, Dell Shannon, who invariably kept one major-case thread running throughout each book while cleaning up assorted smaller ones--sometimes humorous, sometimes grave-- along the way.)
We find Precious Ramotswe newly engaged to her longtime friend, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, owner of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, and in the process of promoting to assistant detective her loyal secretary Mma Makutsi. The emphasis is more on the couple's domestic affairs--the search for an engagement ring, the decision as to which house they will live in, and Mr. Matekoni's thoroughly unexpected acquisition (his bachelorhood notwithstanding) of two foster children--than on casework, but there is still a wife's faithlessness to expose, the fate of a long-missing young American to determine, and Mr. Matekoni's vindictively jealous housemaid to deal with.
Like Shannon, Smith skillfully blends the humanizing details of his characters' private lives with the work they do, and although the New York Times called Mma Ramotswe "the Miss Marple of Africa," to me she seems more like Mrs. Pollifax (another old favorite). At least two further titles are in the wings. If they're as good as this one, they'll be well worth the reader's time.
Rating: 3
Summary: Another Installment of Joy
Comment: After reading Alexander McCall Smith's first book in this series "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency" I felt I had to read the following books as well because they are so enjoyable.
"The Tears of the Giraffe" reads almost like a fable allowing us to determine whether or not lying for good or bad reasons can be wrong. It is an interesting delimma. I absolutely enjoy the way that Smith writes his characers. Precious Ramotswe, her secretary/assistant Mma Makutsi and her fiance Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are immediately likable and often shyly funny in the way that they interact with one another. This book brings two orphan children into Mma Ramotswe's life and leaves a door open for the next installment.
The ending of the book is left with a wonderful fable-like suggestion about baskets being woven from the tears of a giraffe because that is all they have to give us. We can all give something no matter how small or insignificant it may seem and Alexander McCall Smith has given us a true treasure here.
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Title: Morality for Beautiful Girls by ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ISBN: 1400031362 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8) by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 1400034779 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Kalahari Typing School for Men : More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 037542217X Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Full Cupboard of Life: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 0375422188 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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