44 Scotland Street
Registered by 
Panzeranzi
of Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on 11/23/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
Panzeranzi of Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on 11/23/2008 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
"The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home city of Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street verges on the Bohemian, where haute bourgeoisie rub shoulders with students and the more colourful members of the intelligentsia." (adlibris.se)
I´ve read The Curdoroy Mansion books and they reminds of this novel, it´s told in the same way. It's cosy and fun and never gets dangerous. Sometimes I get a bit frustrated at the slow pace and some of the less sympathetic characters, but all in all I like reading mr McCall Smith.
I´m making a bookspiral out of this series:
Book 1
babelfisk
VictoriaWagtail
gunmarga
I´m making a bookspiral out of this series:
Book 1
babelfisk
VictoriaWagtail
gunmarga
Till babelfisk! Del två och tre kommer under våren!
I had completely forgotten about this book so it was a nice surprise to find it on the kitchentable when I got home. (My DH had picked it from the mail box.)
A lovely book! I like the slow pace, the characters, the setting - although I have never been to Edingburgh. But I'm a bit worried about Bertie, I must say!
I'll be sending it on to VictoriaWagtail in a couple of days.
I'll be sending it on to VictoriaWagtail in a couple of days.
Thanks for the book and bonus book Babelfisk, I'm looking forward to reading this one. I liked The no 1 Ladies Detective Agency-books, lets see what I think of this one :)
Jag har nu tvingat mig genom de 50 första sidorna, det här är inte en bok för mig. Det känns som om Alexander McCall Smith gör det alldeles för enkelt för sig, berättelsen är lite för tillrättalagd och det stör mig.
Till Gunmarga :)
Journal Entry 9 by gunmarga at ---- by post or by hand ----, Skåne Sweden on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The book was in my mailbox today. Thank you Victoria.
covertext: Alexander McCall Smith's Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh's New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself having to rub shoulders with students, poets and portraitists. And number 44 has more than its fair share of the street's eccentrics and failures.
When Pat - on her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents - is accepted as a new tenant at number 44, she isn't quite sure how long she'll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives the gloriously pretentious Irene, whose precocious five-year-old is in therapy efter setting fire to his father's copy of the Guardian. And then there is the shrewd, intellectual Domenica MacDonald, mysteriously employed a sharp-eyed observer of the house's activities in her spare time...
covertext: Alexander McCall Smith's Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh's New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself having to rub shoulders with students, poets and portraitists. And number 44 has more than its fair share of the street's eccentrics and failures.
When Pat - on her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents - is accepted as a new tenant at number 44, she isn't quite sure how long she'll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives the gloriously pretentious Irene, whose precocious five-year-old is in therapy efter setting fire to his father's copy of the Guardian. And then there is the shrewd, intellectual Domenica MacDonald, mysteriously employed a sharp-eyed observer of the house's activities in her spare time...
My opinion: The book is of type "Emmerdale Farm" (In Sweden : Hem till gården). It is a low-key story and it does'tt happen very much. In the beginning I found it very slow but gradually as I was captivated by the human types, I began to find it interesting.
Small humorous depictions cheer up. An example of this is when the young man "borrows" a pair of underpants, he had kilt, and is discovered by the host in the laundry room.
This reminds me of the picture of the current Queen of England surrounded by seated men in kilts. The man closest to her haven't arranged his kilt so his penis is shown up. So I can well understand that a young man who does not want to be naked under the kilt feel anxious.
So in summary, I think this was a charming book.
Small humorous depictions cheer up. An example of this is when the young man "borrows" a pair of underpants, he had kilt, and is discovered by the host in the laundry room.
This reminds me of the picture of the current Queen of England surrounded by seated men in kilts. The man closest to her haven't arranged his kilt so his penis is shown up. So I can well understand that a young man who does not want to be naked under the kilt feel anxious.
So in summary, I think this was a charming book.
Journal Entry 11 by gunmarga at Centralstationen in Hässleholm, Skåne Sweden on Saturday, May 19, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (5/19/2012 UTC) at Centralstationen in Hässleholm, Skåne Sweden
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På resecentrum. Där fanns en mycket snygg ung man som jag berättade om bookcrossing för. Jag hoppas att boken fick följa med på resan och att den hittar en ny läsare. Trevlig läsning
Om du blir medlem så kan jag rekommendera det skandinaviska forumet där vi inspirerar varandra till mer läsning. Det finns även internationella forum med tävlingar m.m där det ibland skickas böcker över hela världen.
Om du blir medlem så kan jag rekommendera det skandinaviska forumet där vi inspirerar varandra till mer läsning. Det finns även internationella forum med tävlingar m.m där det ibland skickas böcker över hela världen.
