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The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #11)
by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
Got the call from the Ellsworth City Library that it was in at 11, rode my bike down after my swim at 1, and had finished it by 7:30--a surefire pleasure! I don't think this was one of his best in the series. It could've been a tad longer and more developed, but it was a pleasant read.
There were three main (well, I started to say "two main plot threads," then upped it to three, and now I'm thinking four or five. . . . in about 200 pages? That's my point!) detective-related plots (she hedges, carefully) and they all could've been more thoroughly unpacked and unfolded. As it is, Mma Ramotswe is relying more and more on chance--or McCall Smith is!--rather than her research and observation, and I love seeing how she uses her intelligence to figure things out.
It's a little like the way Robert Parker's Spenser books went: from a two day read, to a one day read, to a "one shift in the bookstore on a quiet night" skim. . .. I hope McCall Smith slows down and goes back to "traditionally built" mysteries! His characters and his readers deserve the attention.
There were three main (well, I started to say "two main plot threads," then upped it to three, and now I'm thinking four or five. . . . in about 200 pages? That's my point!) detective-related plots (she hedges, carefully) and they all could've been more thoroughly unpacked and unfolded. As it is, Mma Ramotswe is relying more and more on chance--or McCall Smith is!--rather than her research and observation, and I love seeing how she uses her intelligence to figure things out.
It's a little like the way Robert Parker's Spenser books went: from a two day read, to a one day read, to a "one shift in the bookstore on a quiet night" skim. . .. I hope McCall Smith slows down and goes back to "traditionally built" mysteries! His characters and his readers deserve the attention.
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31 mag. 11:52
Tea for the Traditionally Built was similar - I heard it on iPod so the accents were great, but there was a lot of chance (but also the dreadful Violet - last name escapes me - who was FOILED most wonderfully in her efforts to displace Mma Mkutsi as Mr. Putti Raddiputti's fiancee) and a whole weird subplot about the tiny white van that seemed to go nowhere. But a lovely description of loving someone who has gone to another city to help someone else and is driving home late at night and one is worried...
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