{"id":100,"date":"2009-02-21T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/02\/alexander-mcall-smith-and-his-books.html"},"modified":"2009-02-21T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:37:00","slug":"alexander-mcall-smith-and-his-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/02\/alexander-mcall-smith-and-his-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Mcall Smith and his books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"no1 by amodini, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amodini\/3307779129\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"350\" alt=\"no1\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3361\/3307779129_0523225cdb_o.jpg\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>One of my favorite book series is the &#8220;No. 1 Ladies detective agency&#8221;, by Alexander Mcall Smith. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is located in Gaborone, Botswana. It\u2019s proprietor Precious Ramotswe is a lady of \u201ctraditional build\u201d and in her late thirties. She has an assistant Mma Makutsi (Mma is the equivalent of Madam in Setswana &#8211; the official language of Botswana), a graduate of the Secretarial School , passing out with an amazing 97% (the highest scored by any graduate of that school, we are told). And the series comprises of books which describe the life of Ms. Ramotswe both personal and professional.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of these books, is that they are mystery novels peppered by common-sense philosophy, and reflections on human behavior &#8211; more action and some philosophy make a nice mix. Now that I&#8217;m nearing the end of these series, I&#8217;ve started on another series by the same author &#8211; the Isabel Dalhousie series. Ms. Dalhousie is an older spinster (forty-ish), and the editor of the &#8220;Review of Applied ethics&#8221; . Thus the book (and I&#8217;m on the first of the series) weighs-in greatly on the ethics of our everyday actions &#8211; too much me thinks because there is very little going on otherwise. Ms. Dalhousie does not run a detective agency, but she has a penchant for solving problems not her own, and this leads her on some investigative adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Continued in next post . . .<a href=\"http:\/\/reviewroom.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sunday-philosophy-club.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-638113694846847510?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite book series is the &#8220;No. 1 Ladies detective agency&#8221;, by Alexander Mcall Smith. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is located in Gaborone, Botswana. It\u2019s proprietor Precious Ramotswe is a lady of \u201ctraditional build\u201d and in her late thirties. She has an assistant Mma Makutsi (Mma is the equivalent of Madam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-recommended"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"One of my favorite book series is the &#8220;No. 1 Ladies detective agency&#8221;, by Alexander Mcall Smith. 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