false 97877 14 Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie's father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel's insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons. 5913230 7 8 2007 The Careful Use of Compliments (Sunday Philosophy Club, #4) total:1197|5:210|4:505|3:393|2:74|1:15| 1197 4412 1622 193 4 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 19:13:43 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 19:15:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 11:52:03 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 12:06:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 09 18:44:09 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 19:55:58 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 18:44:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 19:05:35 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 19:10:00 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 18:28:17 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 18:33:25 -0700 2008
This book is the 4th in his 'Scottish' series starring a philosopher named Isabel Dalhousie who can't help interferin...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 15:35:27 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 15:36:56 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sat Oct 17 20:20:24 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 20:37:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:22:51 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:24:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 16:48:05 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 11:13:29 -0800 2009 "Our possessing of our world is a temporary matter: we stamp our ownership upon our surroundings, give familiar names to the land about us, erect statues of ourselves, but all of this is swept away, so quickly, so ea...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 11 09:00:32 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:02:37 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 12 11:48:14 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:55:20 -0700 2009
It could have been my mood...but as lovely as Isabel, Jaime, Kat and other of the wonderful Scottish characters are...Isabel's primness and her uptight obsession with minutiae got under my skin ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 06:56:59 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:03:21 -0800 2009 I do enjoy these books for a pleasant, not too demanding but rewarding read.
This one bugged me for what may seem a funny reason. The main character has a baby but does not breastfeed because it hurts for the first three days and she is afraid her bond with the baby will b...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 08 09:32:37 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 09:43:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Dec 04 11:36:06 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 11:44:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 08:12:26 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 11:01:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:19:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:21:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 14:10:34 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 12:47:31 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:16:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 19:50:05 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 19:54:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 19:07:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 19:08:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=97877