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  <title><![CDATA[In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6)]]></title>
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  <default_description>In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies&amp;#8217; Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her concerns are a strange intruder in her house on Zebra Drive and the baffling appearance of a pumpkin. And then there is Mma Makutsi, who decides to treat herself to dance lessons, only to be partnered with a man who seems to have two left feet. Nor are things running quite as smoothly as they usually do at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotswe&amp;#8217;s husband, the estimable Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is overburdened with work even before one of his apprentices runs off with a wealthy woman. But what finally rattles Mma Ramotswe&amp;#8217;s normally unshakable composure is a visitor who forces her to confront a secret from her past. . . . &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All this unfolds against the sunlit background of Mma Ramotswe&amp;#8217;s beloved homeland, Botswana&amp;#8211;a land of empty spaces, echoing skies, and an endless supply of soothing bush tea.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alexander McCall Smith]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 19 11:03:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 06 08:54:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a most enjoyable little novel about a large african lady who uses her inheritance to set up a detective agency.  she solves small, human, mysteries in a clever way.  warm, funny and thoroughly enjoyable stuff. the 6th in the series.  humane, whimsical, and humorous as always.  in this one, m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3273556">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 08 07:07:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 08 07:07:30 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this one to be more entertaining than some of the books in the series. I wouldn't recommend the &quot;No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency&quot; series to just anyone, but I admit I have enjoyed it. The landscape of Botswana is depicted beautifully, lovingly throughout. <br/>I think some folks mig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11956872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24512758">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laurel]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 14 18:38:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 16 17:34:29 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is something so comforting about this series.  Even though life in Botswana is most likely very different than life in Canada, there is something about the tone or writing style that reminds me of life at my grandparent's house.  I love the traditional values, the respect for people/property/m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24512758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2752336">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marie]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 26 15:50:55 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 05 17:28:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 05 17:32:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The entire #1 Ladies Detective Agency series is the most unique set of books I have ever read.  I really believe McCall deserves all of the hype he gets for this series, as it has universal appeal.<br/>Mma Ramoswe ponders the questions in life that so many of us do, (or would, if we would just slow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2752336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40587347">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 21 07:59:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 21 08:00:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightful!The more I read McCall Smith, the more I look forward to reading more.]]></body>
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    <review id="48952088">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 11 13:49:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 11 13:58:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even as I was reading this Alexander McCall Smith No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency book, I wondered why I like reading these books so much. Nothing much every happens in them and often mysteries get left unsolved. But what I do find myself caught up in the slow pace and mannered relationships of the ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48952088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75022174">
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    <body><![CDATA[Precious Ramotswe is confronted with a balance of business and personal challenges. The latter involves the arrival of her former husband. He has heard that she is remarried and wants to remind her that they had never gotten a legal divorce. While he is a successful musician, he is always willing to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75022174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59898636">
    <user id="2393446">
    <name><![CDATA[Anne Hawn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 10:38:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 20:07:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since so many people are writing reviews about these wonderful books and discussing the plot, I think I will talk about Africa and especially the way Mma Ramotswe feels about her home and her people.  Reading these books has given me the same feeling I got from the beginning of <u>Out of Africa</u> and <u>Cry...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59898636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78168700">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 17 23:10:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sebelum membaca buku keenam ini aku sudah membaca buku ketujuh. Tanpa sadar aku loncat dari buku lima ke buku tujuh. Akibatnya aku bingung waktu itu karena ada dua karakter yang tiba-tiba muncul: Mr. Polopetsi, seorang pekerja teladan dan Mr. Phuti Radiphuti, tunangan Mma Makutsi.<br/>Seri yang kee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78168700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45460278">
    <user id="1008236">
    <name><![CDATA[Bookmarks Magazine]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 09:32:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>There is more sitting around than solving mysteries in the <em>No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency</em> series, but no matter__little detracts from its popularity. Each installment (soon to be a TV series) features the traditionally built, strong-willed, but rather cool-headed Mma Ramotswe (though some compelling...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45460278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52470381">
    <user id="2214498">
    <name><![CDATA[Purplycookie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 13 01:57:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 26 04:25:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this sixth entry in McCall Smith's consistently delightful series, Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe, the traditionally built—and newly married—owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is saddled with a surfeit of challenging cases and personal crises. <br/><br/><em>&quot;One might have ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52470381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56271474">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anne Sue]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 16 07:09:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 16 07:17:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[On page 110 and 111 I was very much able to relate to the issue Mma Ramotswe and Mma Potekwane discussed, I wrote the quotes from those pages down, for your entertainment:)<br/><br/>&quot;Mma Ramotswe sighed. &quot;We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.&quot; &quot;That...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56271474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49764560">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 22 20:37:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm easing through the series and found this one to be absolutely riveting. I don't recommend beginning with this book if you're starting out because it is a little out of the norm for the series. The stories of Mma Ramotswe are gentle, almost mythical in their unfolding. Nothing alarming happens, g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49764560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9551873">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the characters of Mma Precious Ramatswe, Mma Grace Makutsi and Mr J.L.B. Matekoni and have gained appreciation for Botswana and the respectful attitudes of its traditional way of life. The books in this series have brightened my evenings.]]></body>
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    <review id="52278309">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 6 is much more a character driven plot than a mystery driven story. We are invited inside the lives of the characters and take a journey that is both fun and scary. Alexander McCall Smith even push one of his character into a corner, digged a hole and found a way for the character to bring hims...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52278309">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 08:51:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was first book from this series that I picked in the library trully randomly They had this one on CDs. Sounded like a good thing to listen to on our long drive back from east coast. It truly was a pleasure. Incredibly beautiful full of good will and funny. If you ever need something to lift you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42458747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whenever I am stressed, have too many deadlines, or simply have been reading too much heavy, sad stuff, I look for another in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.  It is just relaxing, pleasant reading to imagine myself sitting under an acacia tree in the hot Botswana sun drinking bush tea... ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41106030">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know whether the books are getting better as the series continues, or if I have simply slid into the comfort zone they create for me, with all their repetition and rambling and familiarity, but it seems to me that they are becoming more thematically focused and cohesive.  This book's intertw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52900486">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like how in this particular book of the series, that detective work and Mma Ramotswe’s personal life are merging.  Last time I complained that there is not enough mystery in the novel. Now, many things happen to her that are actual mysteries!  I also liked how she got sentimental with her &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37158823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alexander McCall Smith is now officially my hero. I'd read about three of his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, but for some reason I didn't quite realise how brilliant they were until I listened to the audio book version of In the Company of Cheerful Ladies.<br/><br/>No doubt, much credit mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30961985">more...</a>]]></body>
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