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Each of these story lines moves along at the measured pace of life in the near-desert of Botswana. Matekoni, and now works for him as a certified mechanic.

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In The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are confronted with a series of surprises: the completely unexpected visit of their idol, Clovis Andersen of Muncie, Indiana, author of The Principles of Private Detection the shocking dismissal of Mma Ramotswe’s good friend, Mma Potokwane, as matron of the orphan farm and the arrest of Fanwell, a young man who apprenticed with Mma Ramotswe’s husband (“the finest mechanic in Botswana”), Mr. The spirit in which it was made, though, was clear enough, and Mma Potokwane simply thanked her.” Definitely.” This remark was greeted with silence while Mma Ramotswe and Mma Potokwane had tried to work out what it meant. “Nobody is useless,” she said heatedly, “and you are less useless than nobody else, Mma. Here, for example, is a typical comment by Mma Makutsi on a statement by Mma Potokwane, Mma Ramotswe’s friend, who was despairing of her life at the time: An exceptional tale about remarkable women

Grace graduated from the local secretarial school with an unprecedented grade of 97 percent on her final exam - and she never lets anyone, and I mean anyone, walk into the office without learning about it. As always, the story revolves around the lives of Mma (“Ms.”) Precious Ramotswe, founder and proprietor of the agency, and her consistently exasperating assistant, Mma Grace Makutsi. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection is the 13th and latest in Smith’s best-known series of novels about the #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Gaborone, the capital of the small, land-locked nation of Botswana, bordering South Africa. By comparison, the sci-fi author I alluded to above has worked full-time as a writer ever since graduating from college.

In fact, Smith is renowned worldwide as an expert in the field of medical ethics. But, to give the guy a break, during most of his 64 years he was employed full-time as a teacher of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and other universities. After all, he has published a total of just 72 books: 36 novels, 21 children’s books, 3 short story collections, and 12 academic texts. Not a lot - just a little, just in the ease with which he manages to write. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #13) by Alexander McCall Smith ★★★★☆Īlexander McCall Smith must be a little like that sci-fi writer.

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Now, some four decades later, I’m inclined to believe that story, because he is credited with having published a total of more than 300 books, a fair number of them award-winners. At that point, he would recover the typewriter and leave for lunch and his afternoon classes. He rented an office near campus and would show up every weekday morning at 9, remove the cover of his typewriter, and begin typing - nonstop, and without hesitation - until precisely noon. Though he himself never admitted as much, I was told that he had worked himself through a prestigious college in the 1950s by turning out shelves-full of sci-fi novels at a penny a word. Many years ago, when I was pretending to be a science fiction writer, I got to know a famous figure in the genre.

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