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Title: A Superlatve Series
Review: I stumbled onto this series because of the title and have been richly rewarded.Thoughtful, quirky, gentle, evenly paced -- this is not a Jason Bourne novel. Each novel builds upon the one previous, and as each book is added to the next, the reader immerses him or herself further into Precious Ramotswe's Botswana, where red bush tea is ready any time of the day; where there is much to be learned by standing against the fence and contemplating cows; where Mma Makutsi talks to her shoes.In some ways, this is a 21st century African Jane Austen series -- McCall Smith through his characters muses on life and death and gladness and sorrow, and though the land is foreign to many of us, the thoughts and the experiences are universal.The "mysteries" are incidental to the story, providing impetus for the rich, rich telling of the lives of a series of funny, kind, intelligent, bizarre, thoroughly human people.Superlative!
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