#alexander mccall smith

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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

~Alexander McCall Smith

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hello, can i request something about city living, if you haven't already done it yet? love your webs <3

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Ed Sheeran, The City

Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; ‘Return’

The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann

J. G. Ballard, High-Rise

Alexander McCall-Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City (via The Guardian)

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.'

'Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.'

'Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.'

'As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.'

'As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.'

Author Extraordinaire Alexander McCall Smith

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The Eternal Daughter (2022) by Joanna Hogg

Book title: The Full Cupboard of Life (2004) by Alexander McCall Smith

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Qualche volta è più facile essere felice se non sai tutto.

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Alexander Mccall Smith

Bonjour

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Fictional women to aspire to #2

Precious Ramotswe

From The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Puts people in their place without being unkind or unfair.

Gives Mma Makutsi a promotion even when the Agency isn’t doing well.

Gives people a second chance.

Accepts people who are different, like Puso.

Marries the kindest man in Gaborone.

Doesn’t blame Mr J. L. B Matekoni when he adopts the children without telling her.

Stands up for people who can’t stand up for themselves.

Is proud of her traditional build.

Prioritises tea time.

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Quotable – Alexander McCall Smith

Find out more about the author here

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in the company of cheerful ladies

The senior detective of No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Mma Ramotswe is many things; she is optimistic, traditional in her manners and her build, but she is never what you can call inefficient. She can plan better than everyone, she makes mistakes, but she tackles them in the cleverest way possible, which makes her who she is - a hero of the town. Her assistant, Mma Makutsi may have obtained a startling 97% in the final examinations of her Secretarial College, but she would obtain more than 100% when it came to her human skills, and also her aphorisms. Meanwhile, you have people being slightly self-deceptive, especially when it came to sharing the good things in life, but not to anyone's disadvantage:

'That is true', said Mma Potokwani sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.'

The men in Alexander McCall Smith's novel are undeniably present, some of them good too, and some who threaten (or, rather, try) to steal the spotlight, but ultimately it's the ladies who take their firm positions there on the stage. So, you have feminism, conservatism and empathy all rolled into one sweet book, as I sure hope his other works are too!

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Von Igelfeld sat down in the reception room and picked up the first magazine he saw on the table before him. He paged through it, noticing the pictures of food and clothes. How strange, he thought - what sort of Zeitschrift is this? Do people really read about these matters? He turned a page and began to read something called the Timely Help Column. Readers wrote in and asked advice about their problems. Von Igelfeld’s eyes opened wide. Did people discuss such things in open print? How could anybody talk about things like that? He read a letter from a woman in Hamburg which quite took his breath away. Why did she marry him in the first place, if she knew that was what he was like? Such men should be in prison, thought von Igelfeld, though that was not what the readers’ adviser suggested. She said that the woman should try to talk to her husband and persuade him to change his ways. Well! thought von Igelfeld. If I wrote that column I would give very different advice. In fact, I should pass such letters over to the police without delay.

Alexander McCall Smith, Portuguese Irregular Verbs

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Which British author wrote "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series of books?

"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" is a series of novels by the British author Alexander McCall Smith. The series began in 1998, and by 2021 there have been 22 novels. The stories are set in Botswana where the main character Mma Precious Ramotswe established a detective agency using the inheritance money from her father. In each book, Mma Precious Ramotswe has a new mystery or crime to solve, but the stories focus just as much on her life, adventures, and the foibles of other characters.

Alexander McCall Smith was born in 1948 and raised by his British parents in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). After working as a Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, McCall Smith became a fiction writer, starting with children's novels before moving on to "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". He has since written several series of books, such as the "44 Scotland Street" series (2005-present), "The Sunday Philosophy Club" series (2004-present), and the "Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainments" series (1997-present).

In 2004, McCall Smith published the sixth book in "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", which won him the Author of the Year award at the "British Book Awards". Later that year, McCall Smith began dramatising the series for radio, which ran until 2019. The first book was filmed for television in 2008, starring American actress Jill Scott (born 1972) as the main character.

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25.09.2022

A brief break from Tolkien with something for uni

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Hospitals were to her a memento mori in bricks and mortar; an awful reminder of the inevitable end that was coming to all of us but which she felt was best ignored while one got on with the business of life.

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (by Alexander McCall Smith)

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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, by Alexander McCall Smith

Book 13 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

The stakes are a bit higher for Mma Ramotswe and company in this book. The younger apprentice at the garage is arrested for being a party in the selling of stolen cars and the matron of the orphan farm is dismissed from her post. Fanwell is frightened and swears he's innocent, Mma Potokwani is devastated. Mma Ramotswe is determined to help her friends. Helping out with this is Mr. Clovis Anderson, a detective from Indiana visiting Botswana. He is something of a super star to Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi because he wrote The Principles of Private Detection, the book Mma Ramotswe learned her trade from and based her business on. Both ladies can quote the book chapter and verse.

Meanwhile, newlyweds Mma Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuiti are building their house. Mma Makutsi is getting used to having the money for the comforts that she couldn't afford before, but is distrustful of the builder that was hired to construct their home. Husband and wife end up having something of a mystery on their hands.

I sort of groaned when I read that we meet Clovis Anderson in this one. I expected it to be a story of "Never meet your heroes" where the man our detectives hold in such high regard is a jackass.

Instead, the opposite is true. Mr. Anderson just happened upon the detective agency and out of professional curiosity, stopped in. He is utterly shocked to find that he is so well known and his book so loved by Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi. He is very kind and down to earth and happily helps the two with Mma Potokwani's plight. I really liked this character and would be happy to see him pop up again.

Mma Potokwani's problem arrives in the form of a lovely blessing. This lady who does everything she can to make sure the orphans in her charge are well taken care of and feel loved is pushed out of her post when a member of the orphan farm's board and she disagree about what to do with a large sum of money given to the farm.

Mma Potokwani can be downright pushy and will beg, borrow, and manipulate to make sure the orphans get everything they need and are as happy as possible. To dismiss her from this calling made no sense to anyone, least of all our detectives. The same day that this happens, Fanwell is arrested. After a brief period of shock, the ladies and the Speedy Motors crew get to work.

Fanwell's trial sort of ends up being a comedy with Charlie finding a hilarious, if morally gray way of helping his friend.

The orphan farm and Mma Makutsi 's mystery takes a little longer and a little more patience, but they wrapped up in awesome ways.

I think my very favorite part was when Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi went on a road trip and started speculating how much tea they drink in a week. It's little sideboards like that that make these books feel like the definition of cozy.

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12esima: A. McCall Smith, Le lacrime della giraffa, Tea

Da Rosa Ghislandi riceviamo Le lacrime della giraffa di Alexander McCall Smith. A questo proposito Rosa ci scrive: “Un thriller etnico arguto e divertente. <<Con le avventure di Precious Romotswe la prima e unica detective del Botswana, terra di pace e di minimi reati, Alexander McCall Smith ha portato nella sterminata galassia del giallo un tocco delicato come una tazza di tè rosso sorteggiato…