{"id":3109,"date":"2022-12-20T20:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:53:09","slug":"the-1st-ladies-detective-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"The 1st Ladie&#8217;s Detective Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Alexander McCall Smith, 2003, Audiobook narrated by Lisette Lecat, Recorded Books <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4.0 stars\"\/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This novel is the first in a series of books about a lady who started a detective agency in Botswana. Since we traveled to Africa this last summer and briefly visited Botswana, I decided to check it out.  The characters are wonderful, the stories are charming, and the narration is superb.  In fact, because of our travel to Africa, I can just picture the main character, Mma \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Precious\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ramotswe as if she were in my presence.  This is the sixth book I have read this year that is set in Africa, so I feel somewhat immersed in those countries through reading and listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am rating the book as four stars as I enjoyed it so much.  I probably won&#8217;t read another in the series, however, as I expect that they would be pretty much the same and I do like a lot of variety in my readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alexander McCall Smith, 2003, Audiobook narrated by Lisette Lecat, Recorded Books &nbsp; This novel is the first in a series of books about a lady who started a detective agency in Botswana. Since we traveled to Africa this last <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3109\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}