false 97875 19 Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Domenica, is an eccentric and insightful widow. In the flat below are Irene and her appealing son Bertie, who is the victim of his mother&#8217;s desire for him to learn the saxophone and italian&#8211;all at the tender age of five. <br><br>Love triangles, a lost painting, intriguing new friends, and an encounter with a famous Scottish crime writer are just a few of the ingredients that add to this delightful and witty portrait of Edinburgh society, which was first published as a serial in<i> The Scotsman</i> newspaper. 2086052 14 6 2005 44 Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street, #1) total:2252|5:382|4:801|3:733|2:267|1:69| 2252 7916 2993 429 4 9 false false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 06:39:40 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 13:34:40 -0700 2008
When I finally closed the back cover, I realized that this is a book about nothing. It's Seinfeld in Edinburgh.

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44 Scotland Street is a gentle book, like murmured conversation about fascinating things. The characters are mor...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 06 17:41:36 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 16:37:39 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 17:41:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 12:57:37 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 13:01:19 -0700 2008 Tales of the City. 44 Scotland Street doesn't have Maupin's very sly wit, sense of zeitgeist and ability to define what i...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 03 07:32:28 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 07:38:32 -0800 2007
A saxaphone savant (if not...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 09:53:02 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 09:53:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 10 20:45:16 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 20:49:09 -0800 2009 Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of the City books, at a party in San Francisco; he lamented the demise of the se...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 07:10:38 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 10:17:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:45:34 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 16:24:30 -0700 2009 The World According to Bertie (#4), and followed that with Love Over Scotland (#3). Of course, I will be reading Espresso Tales (#2) on the plane ride back from Victoria, where I am hiding out this summer. (I hide out here every summer.)
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I loved the pace this novel - it is just about the pace of real life itself. It has some ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 18:01:22 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:04:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon May 25 20:27:15 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 09:55:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 16:34:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 11:09:35 -0700 2009 Mrs. Dalloway had wry Scottish humour, a lightness of touch and didn't take itself too seriously, it would be 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith gives us a diverse selection of the Edinburgh bourgeoisie, interconnecting and reacting to each other and to the trivial events of their ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:34:01 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:34:01 -0800 2009 Inspired by Armistead Maupin's serialized San Francisco-based Tales of the City, McCall Smith has successfully incorporated snippets of Bohemian Edinburgh life into 44 Scotland Street. He lends the same insights and sensibilities to these colorful vignettes as he does to his bestselling No. 1 Ladies...

more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Oct 07 08:28:53 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 08:31:09 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 21:06:31 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 22:23:40 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 18:33:49 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:38:17 -0700 2009 I don't think his style is for everyone, but I found the stories so gently human and revealing of those small day-to-day intrigues that are often overlooked. He originally wrote this as a weekly serial in a newspaper, published chapter by chapter. Not a lot happens, and he follows th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 10:51:28 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 20:05:38 -0700 2009
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