Jobonga's review
The Sunday Philosophy Club (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
I wasn't crazy about the narrator. I couldn't help but read it in the voice of that lady from The Splendid Table on NPR - it was uncanny. I like her on NPR where it's okay to over-annunciate and pretend to connect with the hoi polloi by knowing everything about the history of corndogs (but in fact only eat them ironically), but she's too airy to narrate a whodunit. The protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, is the editor of an ethics magazine and the asides about ethics and philosophy are as dry as they sound - the ethical quandaries she finds herself in aren't engaging. And she needs a flaw - committing ethical hypocrisy, farting in an elevator, something. It's no wonder she can't get the Sunday Philosophy Club together because she's so boring! (Why is that the name of the book when they never actually meet?)
And I hated the ending. Huge disappointment. This book does get points for giving my a nightmare because I fell asleep reading the one mildly scary part. I rated it "okay" bec...more
And I hated the ending. Huge disappointment. This book does get points for giving my a nightmare because I fell asleep reading the one mildly scary part. I rated it "okay" bec...more
Its more than a bit predictable, so i must agree. She is also so boring that she has to meddle in other people's lives. But, if you want mysteries set in england read the maisie dobbs series. She is a kickass chick.
