![]() I waited for a plot to reveal itself, reading impatiently until I realized that the fun was in the characters and their foibles and interactions. At first the story meandered along, describing the experiences of the residents of 44 Scotland Street as they went about their lives, with no particular direction apparent. ![]() So my imagined two stars has materialized as four, and this is why.Īlexander McCall Smith has the gifts of keen social observation and witty, dry delivery that trump the relative uneventfullness of the book's plot. And by three-quarters, magic happened and I couldn't put the book down. I'm not sure why I kept reading, but I did. And at one-quarter, I wasn't particularly enjoying this one. ![]() I can usually call a book by a quarter of the way in. ![]()
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