March Read - NO SPOILERS - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

I think I'll be reading this on ebook so I won't be ordering it from the library. What about you?

I read it years ago, but don't remember much, so I'll reread it. I do recall that I liked it a lot.

I'll try to join y'all.

Read it just last year--I'll be around. :)

It's been years, but I listened to it, and it seems to have stuck in my head better than most. So I'll be here!

OMIGOSH!  We have three copies of this in my bookstore!  Snagging now!

I've read it before. Such a wonderful book!

It's been in my tbr pile for at least 4 years, so I'll plan on reading it with you in March as well!

Love this whole series. I'll certainly eavesdrop.

Got it from the library, and so will ba able to join in.

Looking forward to this discussion. I really enjoyed this series, especially the audio version, the narrator is so wonderful. I'll be here.

I've tried listening to this a couple of times but I couldn't really get into it. I think mostly I wasn't in the right mood for it. But I'll be lurking and maybe you guys will get my enthusiasm up for it.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the whole series and congratulate those of you who are meeting Precious Ramotswe for the first time. It seems it's a love it or hate it series. Hope you all love it!

Man, I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Loved the setting and descriptions and the feel of love for her country, but really found Precious way too precious for me. Not one flaw? Really? Perfect and always right? Oh well. Glad I read it. Won't continue the series I'm afraid.

She seemed pretty human to me.

I'm glad you liked it Clam. If she'd have lost her temper, just once, I'd have liked her better.

She is rather calm about things, but I do know people like that. I rather envy them! :o)

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I thought her errors in judgement kept her from being too perfect. Things like believing the girl with the boyfriend, and using herself as evidence in the cheating husband case.

edit: Sorry! I just realised this was the "No Spoilers" thread.

#16 Please remember that many of us in Africa tend to be, or at least act, more placid about the things that matter than others might. The good people of Botswana, as it happens, are particularly good at that. Just don't ask what was going on under the surface.

Hah, Hugh! Yes, agreed, many things are cultural. Showing one's emotions is certainly one of them.

majkia, I mentioned in your thread, as the series goes on, you do see more depth to Mma Ramotswe. She struggles deeply with her past and herself. I think this was a light beginning book. It's not that the others become grim, but they certainly do deal with the many blemishes one stumbles on and deals with in life.

Thinking about it, MrsLee, I suppose the reason I'm so disappointed is that lack of depth. She was so complacent about everything she did, how she saw people, how she acted, how she understood the world so correctly.

I don't necessarily need grim, but I do like people who look into their own depths and try to overcome their own limitations, prejudices and assumptions. I got no sense at all that Mme Ramotswe was willing to do that, and none that she even recognized any of that. Perhaps that's why I was so disappointed with the book.

Especially during the last few pages. I'd hoped for some depth of feeling with regard to that, and it was all surface stuff, with nothing deep there either. Yes, she thought of her own child, but not much beyond that.

It's hard for me to put into words what I felt was missing, darn it.

I know what you're saying there. Even when she makes errors in judgement, like the ones I mentioned above, she doesn't acknowledge them as errors on her part. Except for the huge mistake she made in marrying.

ETA: I just noticed this was the "No spoilers" thread. I put a spoiler alert on my earlier post, and I think this one is OK.