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Oct 19, 2023gestr rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I have enjoyed the characters, musings & happenings. I am now reading the third book in the series “The Right Attitude to Rain” Oct 2023.
Sep 17, 2021
Currently numbering twelve in this series, The Sunday Philosophy Club features lovely descriptions of Edinburgh. With engaging, witty characters and a good story line show off McCall Smith's wonderful sense of irony and fun in highlighting…
Nov 16, 2018vkreads rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
1st book in the series; 12 in the series thru yr 2018. Good reading......I like turning the pages, wondering how Isabel's insights about behavior, ethics, people's attitudes, will continue to "inform" me, the reader, as significant…
Apr 16, 2018DanglingConversations rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This reads like Nance Drew all grown up. She is wealthy; She is an editor of an international ethics journal so is always making supercilious comments on submissions; she is an art connoisseur; she plays piano well and is a…
Mar 16, 2018Xoxolatl rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I'm so glad to have found a writer who has bucked the fiction that in order to be interesting, a story must increase your heart rate, raise your blood pressure, and make your innards quiver with nervous tension. I thoroughly enjoy…
Sep 19, 2017chilligal rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Like in all of McCall-Smith's books, the characters are the most important part of the story. You don't have to like them, but after a couple of books you will get to know them, almost like friends or acquaintances. Some are not so…
Jan 05, 2015WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Just as Precious Ramotswe was so much a part of Botswana’s distinctive African way of life in his earlier books, McCall Smith’s new female protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, is a perfect match for her Edinburgh setting. Rather smug and…
mrsgail5756
Jan 11, 2013mrsgail5756 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A very good read. I enjoyed this book. I would recommend this book for all to read.
Dec 04, 2012Silvermist rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Finally! A book with interesting questions! Readers whose top strengths do not include philosophy will be bored or impatient with this book. For anyone philosophically minded, though, this one is delightful! Isabel questions everything,…
Crickett
Jul 19, 2012Crickett rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I am hooked. Isabel Dalhousie is a complicated woman who questions everything and with interesting results.
Aug 20, 2011nontechmom rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed this book, although not as much as the Number One Ladies Detective Agency Series.
Aug 17, 2011Ireadalot2 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
No where near as good as his No1 Ladies Detective Agency series. This book just goes on and on about nothing to do with the plot.
hermlou
May 07, 2010hermlou rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
At a concert Isabel Dalhousie witnesses the fatal fall of a young man from the upper balcony. She interviews people whom he lived and worked with, and she finds the culprit. The setting is Scotland, and I enjoyed it almost as much as the…
Sep 10, 2009Eunice rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Sometimes, you just have to wait. The story did pick up with some interesting twists.
Oct 07, 2008randalljay rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
The only mystery about this book is why he got to write a second one. Half way through the book - when I stopped reading - nothing happened except details about the heroine's, and her niece's,love life!