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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Berly's 2nd Thread, Aiming for 100 in 2009 | | 121 | mckait, Yesterday 1:29pm |  |
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| 999 Challenge : Ivy's 999 Addendum | | 74 | ivyd, Wednesday 12:46pm | |
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| 50 Book Challenge : nannybebette---the 4th inning | | 301 | nannybebette, October 28 | |
| Club Read 2009 : Medellia's 2009 Reading | | 245 | Medellia, October 27 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Sarah's 50 | | 93 | sarahelliot, October 16 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : @51: The TBR challenge | | 180 | Robertgreaves, October 2 | |
| 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Berly's 100 for 2009 | | 275 | Berly, September 13 | |
| 999 Challenge : Ivy's 999 | | 176 | ShaggyBag, September 10 | |
| Book talk : Password... | | 415 | AMQS, August 9 | |
| Book talk : A Silly Book Game - Part 7 | | 326 | SqueakyChu, June 18 | |
| Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4 | | 273 | alans, May 19 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Medellia's 2009 Books | | 10 | ChocolateMuse, March 26 | |
| Audiobooks : What are you listening to now? | | 239 | Sandydog1, February 6 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Clothing and fabric | | 16 | millwheel, January 6 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : akeela aims for 75 | | 222 | alcottacre, January 4 | |
| Reading Globally : Where in the World are You Now? December 2008 | | 126 | marietherese, January 4 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : The Blues | | 15 | mamalaz, January 1 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : digifish books in 2008 | | 130 | digifish_books, December 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 13 December 2008? | | 185 | mckait, December 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Are You Comfortable? | | 18 | varielle, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Momerath's challenge, 2008 | | 48 | momerath, November 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Iphigenie's 888 | | 12 | billiejean, November 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : One Thing Leads to Another | | 249 | Kasthu, October 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : I've lost the currently reading thread - so here's number errr lots | | 272 | Busifer, September 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Stacey42's challenge starting April 1 2008 | | 34 | Stacey42, September 2008 | |
| Book talk : Another silly game to play. | | 671 | LynnB, July 2008 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #2 | | 188 | karen5l, June 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Rosalind takes the plunge | | 9 | Rosalind, June 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : A coat of many colours | | 24 | lakingston, May 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : Please share us a few lines from something you are currently reading. | | 103 | LittleKnife, May 2008 | |
| Dormant: Audiobooks : What Are You Listening To Now? Part 2 | | 220 | teelgee, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : FAVORITE BOOK SERIES AND FAVORITE CHARACTER | | 68 | midnightrose, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have you bought and books lately? Do tell! | | 298 | AnnaClaire, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : nperrin 50 book challenge | | 46 | SaintSunniva, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top books read 2nd quarter 2007 April - June | | 60 | grkmwk, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : - Kimb May 2007 | | 5 | KimB, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - July 2007 | | 176 | kidzdoc, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part II | | 279 | readhead, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - May 2007 | | 142 | MrStevens, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came into Your Home Today? | | 249 | bluesalamanders, April 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 10 Feb 2007 | | 134 | dara85, February 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Feb 2007 | | 127 | neekeebee, February 2007 | |
... - Peter Blegvad (176)
414. Bigfoot: I Not Dead - Graham Roumieu (96)
415. Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem (480)
416. Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith (256)
417. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi (144)
418. Stop in the Name of Pants - Louise Rennison (336) ... Pargeter.
During the first few days of September, I finished my 999 Challenge:
~~ Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
~~ Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
~~ The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
Books in My House: (3/9)
1. Contemporary Fiction ... ... Husband of Zebra Drive, isn't in my local shops and is only available as an ebook in the US and Canada.
My review of Blue Shoes and Happiness:
Mma Ramotswe is back in full detective mode in this book with cases of blackmail, witchcraft, and medical malpractice to investigate.
Just ... ... Not romantic. Not sexy.
I added the other two to the TBR pile and am now starting Alexander McCall Smith's Blue Shoes and Happiness, taking the TBR pile to 60.
My review of In the Company of Cheerful Ladies:
Note Mokoti re-surfaces and demands money from Mma Ramotswe ... ... is the best advice you have to give: A Will And A Way
Thought for the day: Speak
How I would like to die: (With) Blue Shoes and Happiness
My soul’s present condition: Truth and Beauty
...
What is the best advice you have to give: A Will And A Way
Thought for the day: Speak
How I would like to die: (With) Blue Shoes and Happiness
My soul’s present condition: Truth and Beauty
...
42. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri **
41. Treasures, Nora Roberts **1/2
40. The Girls From Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow *
39. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith **
38. Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett ***1/2
Jan-April
37. Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4 ****
(I do read out loud ... 93. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies' #7), 3*
Category: Other Series / Favorite Authors
I liked this book less than any of the others in the series. The mysteries, if they can be called that, seemed incidental -- few details, no surprises, unsatisfactory ... ... carryovers from my 888 Challenge):
3. Other Series / Favorite Authors (need 2) -- completed 9-4-09
~~ Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith -- read 9-2-09
~~ The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith -- read 9-4-09
4 ... Mma Ramostowe had, in fact, thought about this but had reached no conclusion.
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
"And why would a lion prefer to eat me rather than you Rra? Why should that be?" "He is known all over the town," said Mma Makutsi laughing; "he is the best known messenger. Like Superman."
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
"You noticed?"
From Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith page 22
viper ... The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri **
41. Treasures, Nora Roberts **1/2
40. The Girls From Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow *
39. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith **
38. Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett ***1/2
Jan-April
37. Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4 ****
(I do read out loud ... ... or two to relax from my teaching load. I love the descriptions of Botswana and the complexities of the cases.
72nd book: Blue Shoes and Happiness Alexander McCall Smith so I've quickly moved onto the next in the series. I really wolf these stories down and should really alternate with ... I bought Alexander McCall Smith's The World According to Bertie, which didn't even touch the TBR pile, and Blue Shoes and Happiness, which is now bringing the TBR pile back up to 81.
My review of "The World According to Bertie":
Poor Bertie. Irene is getting more and more awful. Oli ... ... by Jeanne Birdsall
13. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
14. Virgin: a novel by Robin Maxwell
15. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Part of the ‘No 1 Ladies Detective Agency’ series. Set in Botswana about a woman who starts a detective agency ... ... ls
#5: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
#6: The Full Cupboard of Life
#7: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
#8: Blue Shoes and Happiness
#9: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
#10: Miracle at Speedy Motors
They're great fluff. I'm picky about my fluff, but sometimes I need it ( ... ... Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Miracle at Speedy Motors
They were the perfect "comfort books" for when I was sick--gentle, sweet, funny, ... ... a lot of the Susanna Gregory novels recently set in medieval Cambridge and have been loving them!
Recently started Blue shoes and happiness which is, like the others in this series, a sheer pleasure and joy to read.
I got Tolstoy's Anna Karenina from the library but not sure when I'll ... I never made it as far as Blue Shoes and Happiness (for once I was reading a series in order...); I really liked the first one and that made me read a couple of others, but I found the charm wore off quite quickly - why is is that so often these things get done to death? Like you, Akeela, I ... #82 Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith. A light-hearted trip into Botswana to spend some time in the office of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency with Precious Ramotswe and her associates (I use this term very lightly). I thought the story and “cases” very flat, but one gets ... I'm off to enjoy some African sunshine in Botswana with Precious Ramotswe and her friends in Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith. Hope I enjoy the trip! >117 Thank you, marise. I am inching ever closer....!
91. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith.
Really enjoyed this one, which had a goodly amount of 'mysteries' to be solved :) I listened to an unabridged audio version read by Hillary Neville.
92. A Pirate of Exquisite Min ... ... reading some of the earlier posts find it on my mind. I know that in listening to Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Blue Shoes and Happiness the reader enhanced my appreciation of that series. I also know that Dan Rather had to take elocution lessons in order to learn to speak with a ... ... 1 Ladies' #6) (July, 4*)
7. TailSpin by Catherine Coulter (FBI #12) (July, 3 1/2*)
8. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies' #7) (September, 3*)
9. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith< ... Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Happiness is a Warm Puppy by Charles Schulz
Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen
Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
... urphy
Spirit Sickness by Kirk Mitchell
No Certain Rest by Jim Lehrer
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Yes
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
At Ease with the Dead by Walter Satterthwait
A Place of Safety by Caro ... 69) Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham.
70) The Careful Use of Compliments, by Alexander McCall Smith.
71) Blue Shoes and Happiness, by Alexander McCall Smith.
72) Night Train to Rigel, by Timothy Zahn. 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
and just because it sounds the same The Cat Who Blew the Whistle by Lillian Jackson Braun 22. The Tao of Pooh
23. The Te of Piglet
24. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies and 25. Blue Shoes and Happiness. I love this series--always an interesting and pleasant read, with many acute observations on human nature. And then from a whole other universe:
25. Rant! 1. Kalahari Typing School for Men
2. Blue Shoes and Happiness
3. One for the Money
4. Looking for Class
5. Two for the Dough
6. Face Down Below the Banqueting House
7. Hot Six
8. Mistress of the Sun
9. Visions of Sugar Plums
10. Three to Get Deadly
11. Four to Score
... A Red Death by Walter Mosley
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Murder Under Blue Skies by Willard Scott
Deep Blue Good ... I've almost finished In the company of cheerful ladies and am about to start blue shoes and happiness both of which are appropriately titled books for GD! ... The last one I didn't like very much. I don't think it was very well thought out or written (the end).
I will start Blue Shoes and Happiness next. I have loved this series on audio. I ordered this from Amazon. The box was okay on the outside but the audio book looked like they had run ... These are mostly to track some other books too, above 888, in the same place
BONUS top LT books that I own and haven't read (or soo long ago)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Slaughterhouse 5 *
American Gods
Fahrenheit 451 *
Ender's Game *
The Lovely Bones
Du ... 26. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Not many books I can finish in one evening after having worked the whole day. Having a job that involves such serious reading makes me appreciate fluff so much sometimes! Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith ... but looks good
Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - looks interesting
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith - never read any, worth giving it a shot
The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader - pure curiosity
And ... Read the secret river
Reading The search for delicious
blue shoes and happiness
Dark places kate Grenville
the sultans harem
wishlist
half a yellow sun
water for elephants
year of wonders ... Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
3. Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen
4. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
5. The beautiful cigar girl by Daniel Stashower ... Dress: tales of growing up groovy by Susan Jane Gilman
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Blue Shoes and happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
A Sarong in My Backpack by Ayun Halliday
I've finished Guards! Guards! and The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen by Lloyd Alexander, think I'll read Blue Shoes and Happiness now. Still poking through Francis Schaeffer and David Livingstone's journal. Along with my herb encyclopedia.
I weeded out my groups, so now you ... ... little bit. Two yesterday, they are my daughter's. I also bought two Tom Clancy for my son, one book for a friend and Blue Shoes and Happiness for myself. Oh, and a hardcover of The Count of Monte Cristo, unabridged. It's for my daughter. SO big and heavy. I have a two volume version ... ... as a hardcover unabridged Count of Monte Cristo for her. A copy of The Quilter's Apprentice for my friend. For myself, Blue Shoes and Happiness. The set? of how many? He's still writing them, I've just picked up blue shoes and happiness, and I know there's another just released over here in hardback. ... he signed books for her.
I listen to them on audio (I love Lisette Lecat's voice, it's so melodical), I'm listening to Blue Shoes and Happiness these days, and I've read the books too.
I like the Sunday Philosophy Club series too, they take place in Scotland. ... and with more consistant internal logic.
I'm re-reading No. 1 Ladies detective agency as a run-up to the latest Blue Shoes and Happiness which I bought recently. I recoomend them to anyone who hasn't tried them, a gentle and charming crime series set in Botswana. Full of the joy of ... ... and the observations of traditional African life, according to Mma Ramotswe. I have one more book after this one, Blue Shoes and Happiness, and then the next one comes out in late April. I do enjoy looking forward to sequels in series that I love.
Has anybody else read these books? I ... ... Days, what Joyful news - I found Pretender (Foreigner) on the US import shelf, and then Hard Way was 3 for 2 along with Blue shoes and Happiness.
So glad that my TBR pile is down to 2 and I can buy books again, and here are books to buy. I was very pleased because I've been waiting for Ha ... #20 there's at least three more in the series
the full cupboard of life
in the company of cheerful ladies
blue shoes and happiness
I've not read Blue Shoes yet, but I agree Precious is a good character. ... than I ultimately felt it was. I didn't hate it - but I didn't love it either. Fussy? Quite possibly.
I also finished Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith which was light and cheerful, as the series always is. I followed that up by reading A man without a country by K ... ... in the last 24 hours: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (for at home reading as I hate to lug around big hardbacks), and Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (for lunchtime and travel reading). ... sale...
Emma by Jane Austen
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Man without Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri ... Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything by John D. MacDonald
via bookcrossing.com
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
second-hand:
The Road to Wellville by T.Coraghessan Boyle
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Th ... ... Rosenblat is a delight.
I just downloaded The Professor and the Madman as well as the next Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness, so when I'm finished with Harry Potter I have some good listening to look forward to while knitting.
Just for interest sake, a womens group ...
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