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The Sunday Philosophy Club

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1400077095
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few weeks ago
Isabel shares some traits with Mma Ramotswe. She is a single woman of independent means who values the cultural traditions that she sees being eroded all around her. "The Sunday Philosophy Club" is also like The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8) in being an unusual type of mystery story. However, that's only the similarities. There are many differences. Unlike any of...more
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few weeks ago
I have never read one of Smith's "Ladies Detective" stories, so I won't be using those works as a point of comparison. I got to know his writing through the very funny "Portuguese Irregular Verb" series, and the first two volumes of his serial fiction "44 Scotland Street." Smith creates likeable characters who live mostly ordinary lives in a mostly moral universe, but he uses them to satirize...more
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More serious than the Ladies Dectective Agency series, and the writing is a little more laboured. If you enjoy the Madame Ramotswe's rose-tinted view of Africa and old fashioned morality where everything ends happily then you should know that this book is written is a very different setting and style and may not be as enjoyable. It follows an older single woman living in Edinburgh.
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I heard an interview with Alexander McCall Smith in which he said that a psychiatrist told him he prescribes his books for his patients with depression. I am not surprised. His books are well-written, humourous, and carefully observant of life. Most of what can be called "literary" fiction tends to be terribly depressing. Without completely ignoring the ugly side of life, Alexander McCall...more
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Well, I don't much like philosophy, so it was probably kind of silly of me to buy this book. But I do love Alexander McCall Smith. In the end, it all worked out okay. I tired a little of Isabel's constant references to this or that philosophy, but I enjoyed that the character would think like that. I love the small off-hand conversations that he included. Usually, in most books, these would...more
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  • ISBN-10: 0375434267
  • ISBN-13: 9780375434266
  • ISBN-10: 0375422986
  • ISBN-13: 9780375422980
  • ISBN-10: 0316728179
  • ISBN-13: 9780316728171
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