StartseiteGruppenForumMehrZeitgeist
Web-Site durchsuchen
Diese Seite verwendet Cookies für unsere Dienste, zur Verbesserung unserer Leistungen, für Analytik und (falls Sie nicht eingeloggt sind) für Werbung. Indem Sie LibraryThing nutzen, erklären Sie dass Sie unsere Nutzungsbedingungen und Datenschutzrichtlinie gelesen und verstanden haben. Die Nutzung unserer Webseite und Dienste unterliegt diesen Richtlinien und Geschäftsbedingungen.

Ergebnisse von Google Books

Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café von…
Lädt ...

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café (2015. Auflage)

von Alexander McCall Smith (Autor)

MitgliederRezensionenBeliebtheitDurchschnittliche BewertungDiskussionen
8904923,839 (3.85)54
"The newest installment in the beloved and best-selling series. In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes on her building. Eventually, she'll have to accept all the help she can get--even if it comes from a completely unexpected source"--… (mehr)
Mitglied:MASP
Titel:The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café
Autoren:Alexander McCall Smith (Autor)
Info:Anchor (2015), Edition: Reprint, 256 pages
Sammlungen:Deine Bibliothek
Bewertung:
Tags:No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Werk-Informationen

The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café von Alexander McCall Smith

Kürzlich hinzugefügt vonprivate Bibliothek, Stephensames, alo1224, alanac50, Shugsdite, asendor, robwithers, EaglesTraceLibrary, OlgaRossi
Lädt ...

Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest.

I always love visiting the characters of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and enjoyed this outing. ( )
  secondhandrose | Oct 31, 2023 |
In this installment, Mma Ramotswe seems to be nearly at the end of her rope with Mma Makutsi, and with good reason. I know it's not in the nature of these books to have anything really terrible happen, and the characters are meant to be nice people fundamentally, but sometimes I just want to shake some sense into Precious. Why does she let Mma Makutsi practically torpedo her client meetings? She doesn't seem to be too concerned that her business isn't really booming, which is not to say it's all because of Mma Makutsi, but it seems like a point of annoyance that is unnecessary. The red flags about Mma Makutsi's new enterprise go up all over the place and a disaster comes to pass, though of course it all comes right in the end. Which is why I keep reading these novels-- they make me believe in the innate goodness of people, despite their flaws. ( )
  karenchase | Jun 14, 2023 |
Charlie gets fired and Grace opens an restaurant that Violet undermines. ( )
  Castinet | Dec 11, 2022 |
Book number 15 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

It had been some time since I read the previous book in this series, and it was a bit disconcerting to come back to Alexander McCall Smith's somewhat odd writing style and realize that I'd almost forgotten what to expect from it and how to sit back and enjoy it. For a brief moment, I was even worried. I hadn't somehow lost my taste for it, had I? But, nope, well before the end of chapter 2, I'd settled right back in as if I'd never left, a feeling rather like slipping into an old, familiar, comfortable pair of shoes.

And what we get here is, indeed, very much like what we've gotten for the first fourteen books. Well, there is a mystery set up that feels especially intriguing this time. There's a woman with amnesia! Who is she, and where has she come from? But that mystery gets largely ignored for much of the novel while we deal with the personal lives of the characters (one of them starts a new business venture while another has to change jobs) and frequently pause for little digressions full of homespun philosophy and lots of warm, low-key humor. In the end, the mystery gets solved almost off-handedly, with the most interesting thing being a little ethical dilemma the solution leads to. But -- and I really don't think this counts as a spoiler for anyone with even the vaguest familiarity with the tone of these books -- everything nevertheless works out nicely in the end for all of these nice people.

I really, really do not understand how this author was able to make a novel like that work once, let alone consistently making it work over and over and over again. But somehow, he pulls it off. I cannot read these and not smile at least a little, and this one was no exception. ( )
  bragan | Aug 10, 2022 |
Exactly what fans of this series would expect. Beautiful, simple, poignant writing. Alexander McCall Smith crafts compelling characters you cannot help but care about. They live real lives in a real, but to me, exotic place - Botswana.
In this outing, several characters’ lives undergo significant changes with all the stresses and strains this involves. Of course, there is also a job for the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to investigate. Who is this woman who has lost her memory? All, of course, is not what it seems!
Satisfying, heart-warming, life-affirming escapism into an entirely charming world peopled by everyman characters trying to live their lives as well as they can. ( )
  GarethWilliamsauthor | Feb 25, 2022 |
The tale is vintage McCall Smith, and you don’t get any better than that for fluffy philosophy and fun. There is little unkindness in his characters and almost none in his plots and yet much of what he writes makes remarkable sense despite the fact that most of these are people you will never meet because they are too nice. If Mr. McCall Smith did not exist, we would probably have to invent him as a tranquilizer with a built-in sense of humor.

 

» Andere Autoren hinzufügen

AutorennameRolleArt des AutorsWerk?Status
Alexander McCall SmithHauptautoralle Ausgabenberechnet
Kern, ÉlisabethÜbersetzerCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
Du musst dich einloggen, um "Wissenswertes" zu bearbeiten.
Weitere Hilfe gibt es auf der "Wissenswertes"-Hilfe-Seite.
Gebräuchlichster Titel
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Originaltitel
Alternative Titel
Ursprüngliches Erscheinungsdatum
Figuren/Charaktere
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Wichtige Schauplätze
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Wichtige Ereignisse
Zugehörige Filme
Epigraph (Motto/Zitat)
Widmung
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
This book is for Alan and Sally Merry
Erste Worte
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Precious Ramotswe, creator and owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, friend of those who needed help with the problems in their lives, and wife of that great garagiste Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, felt that there were, broadly speaking, two sorts of days.
Zitate
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
...she was the only woman in Botswana who could be struck by lightning and make the lightning blow a fuse.
Letzte Worte
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
"Originally published in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette U.K. Company, London" --Title page verso.
Verlagslektoren
Werbezitate von
Originalsprache
Anerkannter DDC/MDS
Anerkannter LCC

Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen.

Wikipedia auf Englisch

Keine

"The newest installment in the beloved and best-selling series. In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes on her building. Eventually, she'll have to accept all the help she can get--even if it comes from a completely unexpected source"--

Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden.

Buchbeschreibung
Zusammenfassung in Haiku-Form

Aktuelle Diskussionen

Keine

Beliebte Umschlagbilder

Gespeicherte Links

Bewertung

Durchschnitt: (3.85)
0.5
1 1
1.5
2 6
2.5 3
3 47
3.5 26
4 100
4.5 8
5 40

Bist das du?

Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor.

 

Über uns | Kontakt/Impressum | LibraryThing.com | Datenschutz/Nutzungsbedingungen | Hilfe/FAQs | Blog | LT-Shop | APIs | TinyCat | Nachlassbibliotheken | Vorab-Rezensenten | Wissenswertes | 203,186,078 Bücher! | Menüleiste: Immer sichtbar