A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

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I even tried witching from ebook to audio (the Lisette Lecat's voice was sooo soothing, I kinda want her to read me bedtime stories). The two ladies put their heads together and come up with clever and successful solutions to both issues. B. Matekoni would have replaced the van at the drop of a hat, but Mma Ramotswe was as loyal to machinery as she was to people, and steadfastly refused to countenance the purchase of a new vehicle. That was the problem, she reflected; that was the source of so much unhappiness - there were people who made it their business to stop other people from being themselves; who tried to make people be something they did not want to be.

He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. Of course, Grace cannot accept or credit Charlie's unorthodox methods of solving the case, now concluded with a happy ending. Mma Ramotswe continued to the side of the garage, where a white-painted door constituted the entrance to the agency office. He is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world's longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. Mma Makutsi asserts there's no difference in the jobs male and female nurses do, and Mma Ramotswe interjects: "Sometimes they have special jobs to do, Mma Makutsi.In this episode she and her colleague Grace Makutsi are concerned because Grace’s husband Phuti is experiencing a sudden downturn in his furniture business. Parking the van in its accustomed place under an acacia tree, Mma Ramotswe walked past the entrance to the garage. The traffic was light, as the morning rush was over, and she did not push her van beyond a stately fifteen miles an hour, a speed at which it seemed to be most comfortable and at which the fewest rattles and other worrying noises emerged from the engine compartment. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. My sister: it was a statement of solidarity: a proclaimed, public statement, intended for the ears of others, but a private pledge of support and understanding.

As they would sink into one of Phuti's large, overstuffed, extremely comfortable armchairs, so will readers delightedly immerse themselves in descriptions of the Botswana landscape; in Precious and Grace's conversations over mugs of red bush tea; and in the doings of the rest of the cast of comic characters. On such small sayings and customs are marriages built—comfortable familiarity; and that, Mma Ramotswe always felt, made a better basis for a marriage than any amount of novelty. Of course there were factors at work in the background, foremost of which was the word of mouth on which every business ultimately would succeed or fail.Mma Makutsi would open up the office and together they would tackle some of the administrative tasks that had been piling up and needed to be attended to. This is a different kind of cozy mystery where there isn’t necessarily a dead body, but there is plenty of detecting.

Exuding gentleness and a philosophy many of us could learn from, Precious Ramotswe and friends remind us of the more important things in life. It opens with Precious Ramotswe considering aspects of her colleague Grace Makutsi’s behaviour that seem to signal ambition. If you have a very traditionally built patient, for instance, and the nurses have to lift the patient out of the bed, then they may ask a male nurse to do that, because they are stronger and can lift heavier weights. This series won two major cross-media awards - Association of Online Publishers Digital Publishing Award 2009 for a Cross Media Project and the New Media Age award. She made her way towards her desk, but before she reached it, she noticed that something was different.Yes, I confess, it did seem a bit fluffy, especially compared to some of my other grittier reads, however if I pay attention in my daily walk of life I notice that I am surrounded by people who reach out to others through small gestures of care and consideration that make their day just a bit brighter and their hearts a little lighter. After that she was ready to prepare a sandwich for her lunch, have a final cup of tea, and then set off in her tiny white van for the short drive to the office. Throughout it all, the ladies (and their men) muse on many topics: unheeded parental wisdom, the benefits of occasional consumption of unhealthy food, the proliferation of extra features on any saleable item, the demise of dining tables and plates, and the curse of phased redundancy and planned obsolescence.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Grace and Mma Ramotswe meet Grace’s childhood friend Patience, who appears to be dealing with her own issues.

We all know the range and breadth of Alexander’s writing, not all of it comic but much of it SO comic it keeps us afloat through dark times. Patience and her 14-year-old-son Modise are now living with a nice man in Gaborone, but Modise's rebellious sullen behavior may get them ejected.