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  • Indeed I had a moral lesson learned in addition to the entertainment I enjoyed through reading the book. The concept of moral proximity is enlightening and inspiring. Trying your best to be decent to whomever come across your path and not to fidget over not being able to make the world visibly bette ... Continue

    Indeed I had a moral lesson learned in addition to the entertainment I enjoyed through reading the book. The concept of moral proximity is enlightening and inspiring. Trying your best to be decent to whomever come across your path and not to fidget over not being able to make the world visibly better: how assuring! I believe there is something similar mentioned in the 4th or 5th book of the NO.1 Lady's Detective Agency series.

    

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  • He was familiar with that. Something terrible happened and people began to shake. It was the reminder that frightened them; the reminder of just how close to the edge we are in life, always, at every moment.

    I would like to give this book 5 stars. :D

    

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With The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the best-selling and beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels, begins a wonderful new series starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie.

Isabel is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. This may be the case when Isabel sees a young man plunge to his death from the upper circle of a concert hall in Edinburgh. Despite the advice of her housekeeper, Grace, who has been raised in the values of traditional Edinburgh, and her niece, Cat, who, if you ask Isabel, is dating the wrong man, Isabel is determined to find the truth–if indeed there is one–behind the man’s death. The resulting moral labyrinth might have stymied even Kant. And then there is the unsatisfactory turn of events in Cat’s love life that must be attended to.

Filled with thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as thick as a highland mist, The Sunday Philosophy Club is irresistible, and Isabel Dalhousie is the most delightful literary sleuth since Precious Ramotswe.

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