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Bezig met laden... The Right Attitude to Rain (editie 2006)door Alexander McCall Smith (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThe Right Attitude to Rain door Alexander McCall Smith
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Just a way to pass the time. I like his Ladies Detective stories better. ( ) I have read other books in this series, and in those books, Isabel was already with Jamie. After reading this, I finally knew how they got together. That's the most interesting bit for me. Otherwise, the book could be one-third shorter. Although McCall Smith explained why Isabel digresses so much, some of her thoughts and reflections are rather dull and drag the plot. 97 "'And the man with whom she had this affair...he dropped your mother when he heard she was ill. That wasn't his plan, you see. Your mother was very attractive, and it was fine to have an affair with a beautiful, engaging woman, even if she was someone else's wife - that made it exciting for him, I suppose. But it was quite another thing to have an affair with a woman who was dying...The sick are not romantic, despite of Rodolpho and my namesake in their garret. It's a different sort of love that puts up with illness. Old love." 174 "She remembered the poem that Yates had written to Anne Gregory about how only God would love somebody for herself and not her yellow hair. She knew she would not feel the way she did about Jamie if he were not good-looking. And that, she thought, was a dispiriting conclusion, for it meant that it was really a love of beauty that was at work; we love the beautiful, and we find it in a person." 180 "...the phrase your ordinary human beauty came into her mind, and it seemed to her to be so apt. Beauty was so ordinary because it required no ornament, no false enhancement; that was ordinary human beauty and it was superior to any other beauty." 201 "I sound petulant, and she thought: a philosopher in the countryside, where talking is not always necessary." 211 "Love paints the world,, she thought, enables us to see its beauty, it's vulnerability, its preciousness." 241 "two deep-seated male desires: to have secrets and to belong" I'm not sure I can even tag this as mystery, because ... there wasn't a mystery in it? In fact, it hardly had a plot, unless you count Jamie and Isabella's relationship, which was the only consistent thing throughout the book. Even so, I enjoyed it more than the last book in the series? There were some really nice moments, like with the old possibly lesbian lady who regretted not moving in with a girl earlier in her life. Such heartbreak and so on. Still, there are a bit too many similarities between this book and the 44 Scotland Street series that still bug me. The characters are little too much like each other, with not enough different jobs and so. But it's enjoyable and easy to read, so that's nice. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Isabel Dalhousie (3) Is opgenomen inOnderscheidingen
When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce, a bigwig at home in Texas, several confounding situations unfurl at once. Tom's young fiancée's roving eye leads Isabel to believe that money may be the root of her love for Tom. But what, Isabel wonders, is the root of the interest Tom begins to show for Isabel herself? And she can't forget about her niece, Cat, who's busy falling for a man whom Isabel suspects of being an incorrigible mama's boy. Of course Grace and Isabel's friend Jamie counsel Isabel to stay out of all of it, but there are irresistible philosophical issues at stake, when to tell the truth and when to keep one's mouth shut. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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