I recently read Alexander McCall Smith's 'The Right Attitude to Rain'. A beautiful book, describing a beautiful world. This was after I had read a book from the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by the same guy.
I particularly liked The Right Attitude to Rain's protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, and the world she inhabits. Her problem (if it could be called that!) is that she thinks too much, and is a philosopher. A very gentle, benign, warm and moral person, in a world inhabited by similar such people, she often has deep and honest conversations with other people, and in the process discovers something new about herself or the world we live in. As a reader of these books, one often has epiphanies into one's own life and times.
At the end of the book, one cannot but feel a bit wistful about the world we inhabit vs. the world we could have inhabited! Here is to a lot more books by Alexander McCall Smith!
I particularly liked The Right Attitude to Rain's protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, and the world she inhabits. Her problem (if it could be called that!) is that she thinks too much, and is a philosopher. A very gentle, benign, warm and moral person, in a world inhabited by similar such people, she often has deep and honest conversations with other people, and in the process discovers something new about herself or the world we live in. As a reader of these books, one often has epiphanies into one's own life and times.
At the end of the book, one cannot but feel a bit wistful about the world we inhabit vs. the world we could have inhabited! Here is to a lot more books by Alexander McCall Smith!
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