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Oct. 17th, 2024 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiBook Reviews: The Kalahari Typing School for Men; The Full Cupboard of Life; and In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, by Alexander McCall Smith
A second batch of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. With the main characters established, things seemed to be going off the boil detection-wise by the third book in the series, and that feeling continues in the next two books. Mma Makutsi is the focus of The Kalahari Typing School for Men, both in her entrepreneurial spirit, but also more darkly in her unconditional caring for her brother with "the sickness"; her own romantic life has its ups and downs, while Mma Ramotswe handles yet another case of Men Behaving Badly. The Full Cupboard of Life struggles through with its absurd plot lines, but In the Company of Cheerful Ladies the author reboots, and there's some serious and satisfyingly gripping developments and quandaries.
In other words, much as I thought earlier, here and here.
A second batch of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. With the main characters established, things seemed to be going off the boil detection-wise by the third book in the series, and that feeling continues in the next two books. Mma Makutsi is the focus of The Kalahari Typing School for Men, both in her entrepreneurial spirit, but also more darkly in her unconditional caring for her brother with "the sickness"; her own romantic life has its ups and downs, while Mma Ramotswe handles yet another case of Men Behaving Badly. The Full Cupboard of Life struggles through with its absurd plot lines, but In the Company of Cheerful Ladies the author reboots, and there's some serious and satisfyingly gripping developments and quandaries.
In other words, much as I thought earlier, here and here.