Excellent book and this book is really three stories in one. As with all the “#1 Ladies Detective Agency” books, the setting is Botswana and the title story centers around finding a beauty contestant who is morally sound. Also, we see Mr. J.L. B. Matekoni struggle with a personal challenge, and Mma Makutsi does outstandingly well in a new role. To read these books and know these characters is to love them and Botswana.

What a great book! And what really make it interesting is the way it is set up. It starts out as the beginning of an MFA grad student’s dissertation but then evolves into the book itself. And while it starts off as third person narrative, at some point it becomes first person, which just adds a whole new layer to the story. And to say that the story is about a man cheating on his wife and the wife maybe cheating on her husband (you’ll have to read in order to make sense of that) does not begin to do it justice.

Diminutive towards women

This is a new author for me and I loved this book. The central character is a part-time college librarian who has a cat that goes everywhere with him. His college is hosting a librarian’s convention at which someone who is hated by everyone is murdered, making everyone at the convention a suspect. The central character has a knack for solving crimes and is instrumental in helping the police with this one. A good and interesting plot with good characters. I look forward to reading something else by this author.

While I’m not a sci-fi fan. I did enjoy this book. The book begins with a dramatic event and a creature who is part human but mostly robot saving the day. It is told from the Murder Bot’s, as he is referred to, perspective and that is what makes the story interesting. It is interesting to watch a creature who is mostly non-human struggle to deal with his humanity. And I enjoyed the surprise at the end. I will try another book from this author.

While I probably read this as a child, I am glad that I read it now as an adult as I am sure I can appreciate more of the aspects of the story now. I enjoyed how each group of animals had a dominant trait that allowed the story to progress. My favorite part was how the rules that were painted on the barn wall would gradually change to favor those who were in charge. A good but frightening tale.

This was my first book by Grisham, and at first I did not like it. It seemed like it was going to be a sad, dark story. But THEN it got going and you start to see how this new young lawyer who was being blackmailed is really going to turn the tables and have the upper hand. A really good read with an ending that will leave you thinking.

Since I really liked his book The Midnight Library, I was looking forward to this one. But I was disappointed when I started reading and saw that it was just a compilation of feel-good sayings and stores, many of which are just obvious like Only you can be you and It does not matter what other people think. And while each sentiment by itself could be helpful if they were, say, on a calendar where you got one idea a day and then spent the day thinking about that, here you are bombarded with one after another. It was just not for me.

did not enjoy this read. Far fetched RomCom where many parts of the story could have been left out.

Another fun pirate adventure