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    <body><![CDATA[The Lost Art of Gratitude: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel by Alexander McCall Smith (Little Brown) ISBN: 9788-1-4087-0064-8 R190<br/><br/>Reading about Isabel Dalhousie and her family is a bit like dropping in on old friends to catch up on the latest news. <br/>Charlie, Isabel and Jamie’s son, is ei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79963183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Isabel Dalhousie books! For those who are not familiar with her, Isabel is an Edinburgh-based philosopher (editor of The Review of Applied Ethics) with a toddler named Charlie, whose father is her much-younger paramour Jamie. Isabel also has a reputation for sleuthing, though there are th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77281722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had Alexander McCall Smith on my list of authors to read for a long time.<br/>He is quite good.  I jumped in with the<br/>sixth book in a series on a female philosopher in Edinburgh (home of Smith).  Isobel is a thoughtful, kind woman and mother of an 18-month-old son.<br/>It was as much phi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75899538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I still love the way McCall Smith writes, I love the characters in this series, and I love the setting, I didn't find this most recent installment to be of the same caliber as the first 3 or 4.  <br/><br/>Part of the problem is that while the main character is always pondering ethical issues...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75086701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another pleasant and interesting book in this series! Alexander McCall Smith, who brought us Precious Ramotswe, also brings us the similarly-upright but more sophisticated Isabel Dalhousie, a philosopher, who edits a journal of the same, and lives in Edinburgh (as does the author). In this book, Isa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73654551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the 7th in McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie series.  Isabel, Jamie and their son Charlie have settled into a comfortable domestic routine.  They reluctantly accept an invitation from an acquaintance, Minty Auchterlonie, to attend her son’s birthday party.  Isabel is drawn into Minty’s s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77954591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure how Alexander McCall Smith cranks out the several series that he is juggling at the moment, but I'm enjoying them as they are published.  In this sixth edition of the Sunday Philosophy Club series, Isabel Dalhousie faces an intriguing series of events which she faces with her usual mora...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80092438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is a comfortable familiarity in the Isabel Dalhousie series, which always reminds me of Seinfeld and its 'show about nothing'. Because really, these books are NOT plot-heavy and sort of gently ramble their way through a series of not very exciting events and end in a mild, sputtering anti-clim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79540927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I randomly picked this up at the library after noticing the author's name (I haven't read any of the books in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but I memorized the author's name!).  It's the sixth in the Isabel Dalhousie series, which worried me before I started reading, but, fortunately, it stand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80903821">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so Isabel is a philosopher and while I occasionally enjoy her evaluation of various daily events, this time it started getting on my nerves.  I don't know how her fiance, Jamie, stands it.  Her mind is always wandering down tangents and wondering whether she should really be thinking what she is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74295522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's Alexander McCall Smith theory of literature (or - why write? why read?) &quot;Perhaps that was what adults really wanted, searched for and rarely found: a simple story in which good triumphs against cynicism and despair....one did not publicize the fact too widely, certainly not in sophistica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77055899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alexander McCall Smith is awfully special. I am continually amazed that there is so much of life in his calm stories, that there is so much for us to ruminate about and apply to our own lives. In this series, and in <em>The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency</em> McCall Smith channels older women. Perhaps they ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76855272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The literary equivalent of herbal tea and a cozy fire.&quot;<br/><br/><em>The New York Times</em> said it best. Yes, Alexander McCall Smith's <em>The Lost Art of Gratitude</em> is a mystery, but it's a mystery of the gentlest variety: no blood or chilling villains, just troublesome situations brought on by ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74111523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish catalogers would admit that McCall Smith's books are not mysteries.  Certainly there is little mysterious about the Isabel Dalhousie series.  Philosophy editor Dalhousie is the lover of Jamie, the mother of Charlie, the aunt of Cat.  She is introspective, more judgmental than she will admit, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76056798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this one.  I usually like McCall Smith's books and enjoy the variety of locale and story line - Africa, Scotland, etc.  This book is another in the Isabel Dalhousie series; I didn't think it measured up to earlier ones.  Too much philosophizing, digressions into the world of ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76927778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read the previous books in this series, I found this book to be somewhat less enjoyable than prior books in the series.  I still enjoyed the visit but found the story-line with Minty and the non-resolution of ***spoiler*** lying, forgery, threats etc. to be less than satisfactory.  Isabel's p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76087105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Isabel Dalhousie is living with her lover, Jamie, along with their young son, Charlie.  Once again, Isabel is drawn into the affairs of someone else, this time at the request of her acquaintance Minty Auchterlonie who draws her into an intrigue involving two other men.  At the same time, Isabel's re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75842786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always an entertaining and at times thought provoking read but I am afraid I tire of Isabel in a way I never do of Mma Ramtoswe. Perhaps because her world is always so unrealistically perfect with only a hint of the occasional irritation on the horizon. I do not know, but I suspect, that Mr McCal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70336714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this a 3 for the writing but a 2 for my interest in the content.  <br/><br/>This is the same author as the #1 Ladies Detective Agency books.  I didn't know that till the end.<br/><br/>I liked what Isabel learned about herself and other through the process of the story.  He used a lot of p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73512830">more...</a>]]></body>
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