Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another book from my “pile” last night – “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith. This is the first in a series of books about a lady detective in the country of Botswana. I knew McCall Smith was a Scottish writer, and I thought I was going to be starting a series about people in Scotland. I bought the wrong book though, as that is a different series. This book was good, not outstanding, but good and different. It was more like a series of short stories, as each chapter was devoted either to the main character, Precious Ramotswe, one of her friends or family members, or a case she was working on. Most of the chapters were short vignettes of cases in Botswana that she worked on. The books are filled with local color, words, places, and stories of life in that part of Africa (near South Africa and Namibia). It was different from the normal books I read, and therefore good for me to read, to break out of my norm. I think I will try to read some of the others in this series later, but I will try to get them from the library and not buy more of them. I also plan to start at least one or two of the other series by this author. In addition to all the other “series” type books I have either started or want to start by many other authors! 😀

For the record, that makes #55 for the year so far, with a total of 19,393 pages read. Up next is a book I picked up recently at a library sale, “Sullivan’s Island” by Dorothea Benton Frank. I read my first book by this Southern author recently (read the review here), and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a light, engrossing, very quick read, and I hope this one is very similar.

If you’re currently reading a book, or have one to recommend, be sure to leave me a comment! Not only do I love comments but I am always looking for good books or new authors to check out.