The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith
Read for: Global Reading Challenge – Scotland
This is the 5th book in the 44 Scotland Street novels, which were originally written as a serial in The Scotsman newspaper. I absolutely love these books. I love the short little chapters and I love the characters. They are so entertaining to read about. I wouldn’t recommend reading this book before reading the first four though. It’s not that you’d have a hard time following the plot, but there is so much character development that goes on in the previous novels that you’d just be missing out on so much of the fun!
My favourite character is still Bertie – a six-year-old with an extremely overbearing and slightly crazy mother. He is constantly baffled by her behaviour but because she is his mother, he goes along with her strange ideas. But there are other familiar faces as well – Bruce, the narcissist, Domenica and Angus who begin to realize they are lonely, Matthew – newly married and Big Lou with her Jacobite boyfriend.
The book is, as always. light and fun and the characters get themselves into some pretty entertaining circumstances. Anyone who has enjoyed the previous four books will definitely like this one.
12/03/2010 at 12:14 pm Permalink
Every time I see that title, I just start laughing!
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