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... Far better, IMO, to get The SUnday Philosophy Club out of the library and see how that grabs you. If that's a go, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate will keep you sweet on Miss Dalhousie, and then subject yourself to The Right Attitude to Rain only after the magic has clicked. It isn't his ... oops.. and I finished Friends, Lovers, Chocolate and enjoyed it. Now reading The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency ...and 1941 1491 by Charles S Mann and Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
I typically do not read more than one book at a time, but there it is. ... of Congress is amazing! Just AMAZING! I am always astonished at how much information they keep track of on every book.
Friends, lovers, chocolate was a delightful read, though I can't say I was ever puzzled or even engaged by the mystery. I just love Isabel Dalhousie, and want her to be MY ... the years of rice and salt
I guess fast food nation is probably disallowed.
friends lovers chocolate
espresso tales
the finer points of sausage dogs
harriet bean there's a few different ones
Max Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery
the perfect hamburger
bubblegum tree
... Huevos Verdes Con Jamon pokes touchstones
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Terminal Cafe
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Naked Lunch
... week. I needed something non demanding and relaxing this week, and so I am in London England eating lots of chocolate in The chocolate lovers club by Carole Matthews. ... week. I needed something non demanding and relaxing this week, and so I am in London England eating lots of chocolate in The chocolate lovers club by Carole Matthews. >#33, virginiahomeschooler: It sounds like Friends, Lovers, Chocolate is very different from The No. 1 Detective Agency series. This was very much one cohesive novel. The events all focussed on one woman and her neice, and while there was a slight mystery involved, it was just something she ... ... I don't sleep, and yet I'm still wallowing in book #7. It is still January, right?
By the way, I had a question about Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. Did you find it was like reading several short stories rather than one cohesive novel? I've only read the first of The No. 1 Ladies Detective ... ... and a bunch of books that don't fit in anywhere else.
Book #13 finished yesterday in my new category, non-US authors: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith.
Love, love, loved this book! I don't know why I have never read any of his books before. This book was truly ... ... by C.S. Lewis
8. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
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Authors Who Are New To Me
1. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (completed 1/24/2008)
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan (completed 1/29/2008)
3. Changes ... ... Bird - UNFINISHED
23. Vicki Iovine - The Best Friends' Guide to Pregnancy - 7/10
24. Carole Matthews - The Chocolate Lovers' Club - 7/10
Michael Ellison - Invisible Man - UNFINISHED
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25. Jerry Bayne - The Gatherer - 6/10
26. Paul Stewart and Chri ... ... No. 16. Starting:
No. 17 Alexander McCall Smith's Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, which is not from the TBR pile, but I like reading my way through whole series. This means I went out and bought The Right Attitude to Rain, ... ... McCall Smith's The Sunday Philosophy Club
I bought this a while ago after reading Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, which my sister gave me for Christmas 2005.
TBR pile = 56 ... Gress
The Necklace of Death by Henry Holt
Psychology: an Empirical Study of Behavior} by Frederick H. Lund
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Life is Painful, Nasty and Short... by Hank O'Neal
Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Hudson
Art and Soul by P ... Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood
I've already used Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith previously Friends, lovers, chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith 16. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Who will help me with my McCall Smith addiction? Will I ever break out of it or will I read only cozy mysteries for the rest of my life? It is starting to make me feel like some kind of lonely spinster. With cats. Maybe I should just ... ... Alexander McCall Smith books:
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Espresso tales
The Sunday philosophy club
Friends, lovers, chocolate
I've never read any of his stuff, so I thought I'd try a variety. ... place in Edinburgh, and there are only brief mentions of the city. Still, I have borrowed the second one to read as well Friends, Lovers, Chocolate.
Will look into John Buchan's book... thanks! I'm coming in a little late, so I'll just list without comment the books I've read so far this year to start:
1) Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
2) Midwives by Christ Bohjalian
3) Wicked by Gregory Maguire
4) The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
5) Tot ... ... passed since I read it. What about it made you scratch and ponder?
>56, BoPeep, well...I hope you love the hell out of Friends, Lovers, Chocolate and think we're all wet, since you've gone and bought it! Convince me, if that's the case, to pick it up and read the last 45pp, and you'll have ... >50, neekeebee, I was completely fascinated by Friends, Lovers, Chocolate until the last 45pp...and then, sensing the disappointment to come, I left it on the donations pile. So frustrating, isn't it? A wonderful storyteller just downs tools almost at the end. I'm led to wonder if there isn't ... After staying up to finish Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith last night and being thoroughly disappointed by the ending, I thought of this thread and had to post.
Most of the book was great, probably my favorite in the 5 I've read by the author thus far. I was so ... ... prose, but it was compelling enough that I was able to finish it only on bus rides.
I've picked up a signed copy of Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith, and am reading that. Of course it';s not bus reading, but I love Isabel Dalhousie as a narratrix (a locution I ... ... McCall Smith last week. A nice book following Isabel Dalhousie on from The Sunday Philosophy Club, and apparently Friends, Lovers, Chocolate too, which I must have missed. There were some lovely touches, and it is a nice relaxing before bed read, but somewhat insubstantial. I kept ... ... one of my favourite authors, and one of the few I've managed to get my husband interested in too.
I've just finished Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith, a quick, light read, made more enjoyable by a recent visit to Edinburgh, where the book is set.
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