I am currently listening to one of Alexander McCall Smith’s mystery books on tape, and am enjoying it so much that I\u00a0cannot wait to find more time to listen to it. I am “reading” the second book in the Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency series which features Precious Ramotswe, as she goes through life, solving other people’s problems. I love this series! Mma Ramotswe is a very independent woman, and through her, we see\u00a0Botswana, and the daily conditions that these African people experience. Truly a wonderful series.<\/p>\n
Alexander\u00a0McCall Smith has written many<\/span> books, of which I\u00a0am just being introduced to… The other series that I follow is his series revolving around Isabel Dalhousie, who happens to be a\u00a0philosopher, thus the series name: the Sunday Philosophy Club.\u00a0Isabel is another very strong and independent woman.\u00a0 Although both women are intelligent, strong and self-reliant, the environments that they find themselves in couldn’t be any more different than they are.<\/p>\n When trying to find the chronological listings for these two series, I stumbled across a trilogy that Alexander McCall Smith has written\u00a0concerning Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. I cannot wait to track these books down! They are not mysteries, but are reviewed as being full of very dry humor, which I happen to enjoy.\u00a0I have read some reviews about this trilogy \u00a0that liken it with my very favorite author’s Lucia series (E. F. Benson).\u00a0 And as if that isn’t a big enough endorsement, I have also read that Alexander McCall Smith is\u00a0an E. F. Benson fan.<\/p>\n No wonder I am\u00a0an Alexander McCall Smith fan!<\/p>\n