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  <title><![CDATA[The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #8)]]></title>
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  <default_description>In the life of Precious Ramotswe&amp;#8211;a woman duly proud of her fine traditional build&amp;#8211;there is rarely a dull moment, and in the latest installment in the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies&amp;#8217; Detective Agency series there is much happening on Zebra Drive and Tlokweng Road. Mma Ramotswe is experiencing staffing difficulties. First Mr. J.L.B. Mate-koni asks to be put in charge of a case involving an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as successfully as the number one lady detective can? Then she has a minor falling-out with her assistant, Mma Makutsi, who decides to leave the agency, taking the 97 percent she received on her typing final from the Botswana Secretarial College with her.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Along the way, Mma Ramotswe is asked to investigate a couple of tricky cases. Will she be able to explain an unexpected series of deaths at the hospital in Mochudi? And what about the missing office supplies at a local printing company? These are the types of questions that she is uniquely well suited to answer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the end, whatever happens, Mma Ramotswe knows she can count on Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, who stands for all that is solid and true in a shifting world. And there is always her love for Botswana, a country of which she is justifiably proud.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alexander McCall Smith]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[	This was a surprise eighth installment to a series that was supposed to end with seven.  While I am a big fan of the series, I found this particular book to be disappointing for a number of reasons, most of them related to the plot. <br/>	As is his usual set-up, McCall Smith starts a series of min...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2204533">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 18 16:40:52 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the first few books in this series but lost interest after the Full Cupboard of Life.  Something about this book's cover appealed to me and I looked forward to immersing myself in Mma Ramotswe's African world again.  <br/><br/>I didn't really enjoy the book very much, it was an effort to f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26388643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49860864">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After quite a few years of living it, I've come to the conclusion that life is made of two things: time and attention. What I love about the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is the way the author, Alexander McCall Smith, handles both.<br/><br/>In <em>The Good Husband of Zebra Drive</em>, as in all the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49860864">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very good book.  I chose it for Book Group because Deborah, one of my colleagues, used to live in Botswana.  She is bringing pictures and artifacts to Book Group and to Coffee Club.  According to Deborah, McCall Smith does an excellent job of capturing the spirit of Botswana.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45179754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42736928">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, by Alexander McCall Smith.  A.<br/>Downloaded from audible.com.<br/>Publisher’s Note:<br/>In the life of Precious Ramotswe, a woman duly proud of her fine traditional build, there is rarely a dull moment, and in the latest installment in the<br/>universally bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42736928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77552771">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 12 09:49:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 12 09:49:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mma Remotswe and her friends and family get a chance to test the waters as they are all thrown in opportunities for change. Mma Makutsi is the one facing the biggest amount of change. As she starts to finalize preparations for getting married, tensions start to bubble up between herself and her boss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77552771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59905717">
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  <read_at>Wed May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a little different from the previous ones and I think I felt a little threatened when Mma Mkutsi left the agency.  I could almost hear myself saying, &quot;Oh, no, this is my island of security!  This is the wonderful, enduring, changeless land in Botswana that speaks to me through the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59905717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57985798">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series.  I did not love this book, which makes me kind of sad.  I had two major problems with this particular volume.  First, the overarching theme appeared to be &quot;people are who they are, and there's no point trying to change who you are,&quot; which I find defeatist and unappealin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57985798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75280677">
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    <body><![CDATA[Mma Ramotswe is solving mysteries again. This time her husband Mr.JLB Matekoni believes that he too may have the skills to be a detective, afterall how hard can it be? So begins the lastest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Ladies Dective Agency Series. As usual McCall Smith's warm writin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75280677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57844767">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy this eighth book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series as much as I had the previous books.  I was ready to quit in the middle of the book, but I'm glad I saw it through to the end, because the story threads were tidied up nicely and I was satisfied by the final page.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57844767">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another opportunity to catch up with Mma Ramotswe and her various associates in Gaborone. There's not a huge amount of detecting going on, apart from something to do with a hospital, but the characters all get an opportunity to do something different.<br/><br/>I had hoped that when Mma Makutsi res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71368836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47526408">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nothing much happens in Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and that's part of their charm. Another appeal is the unflapple character of Mma Ramotswe, a woman of &quot;traditional size,&quot; who goes about her detective business with competence and self-assurance. This tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47526408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67979701">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book in the series is done. That's how I feel after reading this one. Although the book can stand on it's own, it's much better in a series. I found myself feeling for the characters at times, and other times wanting to throw something at them. <br/><br/>[Spoiler:]For example, the time Mma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67979701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;He expressed his relief in tears, which he mopped at, embarrassed, with a handkerchief that she supplied, wordlessly.  There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41098074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45976481">
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    <body><![CDATA[Precious Ramotswe finds herself in the middle of an investigation at the hospital when several patients have died under strange circumstances.  As is often the case, things are not always what they seem and so this investigation takes that turn.<br/><br/>Meanwhile Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni decides he wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45976481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned something about Botswana and how people relate to one another in this particular area of AFrica.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As light reading series go, Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Series never disappoints. These books are especially fun to bring on trips, because you can count on them to have predictable characters and setting, multiple and unpredictable sub-plots, and resolution. They explore human ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60503924">more...</a>]]></body>
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