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Title: Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 1-4000-3136-2 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Fascinating Book
Comment: I really enjoy this series of "mysteries"...although they are much more than mysteries. In this entry, Precious Ramotswe has some difficulties to deal with, both professional and personal. The agency is not making any money; there is an "important Government man" that wants her to investigate his brother's poisoning; her fiancé, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni is harboring secrets. Meanwhile, her assistant, Mma Makutsi, must help a beauty pageant organizer determine if any of the four finalists are worthy of the title, hence the title, "Morality for Beautiful Girls."
There is one small detail that I find a little irritating - the author refers to Mma Ramotswe's auto as the "tiny white van"...never "the van" or "her van" but always the "tiny white van"...for some reason, after about 40 times, that was starting to rankle me.
All in all, another great enjoyable read and I am really looking forward to the next book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another good comfort read
Comment: This is the third book I've read in Mr. Smith's series about Botswana and, in my opinion, it's the best so far. His writing style is beautiful, with great descriptions that take the imagination soaring. I especially like the character development of Mme. Makutsi, newly promoted to Acting Manager of the garage as well as the detective agency. She truly shines.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Precious Ramotswe's life grows more complicated
Comment: Mma Precious Ramotswe, the only lady private investigator in the nation of Botswana, finds that being engaged isn't all it's cracked up to be in this third installment in Smith's series (you definitely need to have read the first two in order to understand the references). Her fiance, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the heretofore devoted and successful owner of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors and foster father to two Bushman orphans, proves to be suffering from depression and must be subtly tricked into seeking medical help. Meanwhile, her assistant, Mma Makutsi, discovers unsuspected talents when they move the Agency offices to share the garage premises and she finds herself riding herd on Mr. Matekoni's notoriously lazy and inept apprentices. Mystery is provided by the possible ongoing poisoning of the brother of an important Government official, who suspects his sister-in-law, and the discovery in the bush of a naked boy who "smells of lions" (anyone who has read Kipling's Mowgli stories will immediately guess at his past, though nothing canonical is established about it). The title arises from Mma Makutsi's efforts to learn which (if any) of four finalists in the Miss Glamorous Botswana contest are morally suited to the title. Smith, as always, conveys much of the spirit, flavor, and customs of the African nation he knows so well, and leaves us wanting to know how the cases of Mr. Maketoni's depression and the mysterious bush boy will turn out. Highly recommended for readers of the series.
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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 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: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, Lisette Lecar ISBN: 1402541775 Publisher: Recorded Books Unabridged Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations by Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 1841954667 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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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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