I'm guessing I haven't won many new W&C readers this week... three days of reality television followed by two days of books! At least no puppy update to send you totally over the edge! Anyhow, as a reality tv fan I often feel scorned for watching "trash" (I particularly love it when it comes from the "I don't watch reality, well except for..." folks)... but, on most nights, after my low-brow reality shows I am curl up with a book... well, maybe not curl... but anyhow...
This is another much delayed book recap. It looks like I finished this one over a week ago (you really don't want to know how I know that!). After the "big meal" of Ten Days in the Hills, it was time to for a light snack... and you know what that means, Alexander McCall Smith! He's my go-to guy when I need a quickie... well, ahem... a literary quickie. This is my second McCall Smith book of the year... not wanting to run out of books in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, I snuck over the Sunday Philosophy Club series earlier this year... but it was time to return to Botswana and my beloved Precious Ramotswe for the 4th book in the series, The Kalahari Typing School For Men.
As usual, there really not a whole lot to say about these books. Always enjoyable... but nothing to meditate or extract any kind of deep meaning from... which is exactly why I read them!
Heck, there really wasn't even much detective work going on in this installment. More character building as our plus-size leading lady struggles a bit ... learning it's not so easy being a foster mother, encouraging her assistant to start a new business of her very own particularly when a new detective agency opens up shop across town. Again, not exactly earth-shattering, soul-searching material... but Mma Ramotswe handles it all with all her trademark optimism and wit.
Coming full circle, while I might not get much respect for reading McCall Smith's books (even within my own household... haha!)... it's the whole "can't live on bread alone" theory... reality television and McCall Smith are, for sure, two of my favorite desserts.
2007 10K Reading Challenge: + 189 pages (Total Pages: 2743 pages)
Perhaps the books are all part of an overall plan to balance intellectual portrayal that may perchance have been damaged by said trash tv... ?
LOL! Just kidding, I'm still here and reading your postings, in between books, I'm getting there slowly... Oh, so slowly. More Rocky would be good though :)
Posted by: Craig | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 05:03 PM
Actually, the books are what keep me coming back so yay books!
Posted by: Brian F. | Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 05:48 AM