DH and I went on a mega shopping trip yesterday in a larger city two 1/2 hours away. We go to Costco and get 3-month supplies of detergent, feta cheese, olive oil, etc. The book table always draws me in and the latest Mma Romatswe book beckoned! Blue Shoes and Happiness. I so much enjoy these stories of Botswana – the culture, the simplicity, the humor, human nature. IMHO, Blue Shoes isn’t up to par with some of the earlier books. I’m getting weary of the apprentices’ immaturity, and a certain je n’est sais quoi is missing.
However, it’s still worth a couple of belly laughs:
But he could not put to the back of his mind the extraordinary news which Mma Ramotswe had so casually imparted to him and which he would breathlessly pass on to Mma Makutsi the moment he saw her. It was news of the very greatest import: if Mma Ramotswe, stern and articulate defender of the rights of the fuller-figured as she was, could contemplate going on a diet, then what would happen to the ranks of the traditionally built? They would be thinned, he decided.
A Living Pencil 
I wondered where you were…..had a horrible panic when I saw Donna’s *gone fishin* sign and posted at Janet’s…..just needed to know, if I needed to brace myself for a *quietless* week. lol
To date I have read any No 1 Detective Agency, although I did buy one, which I ended up giving it to my sister. I think it is something I would enjoy.