LISTENING: Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

Second novel of the 44 Scottland Street series; audio book performed by Robert Ian MacKenzie.

For the most part it is as funny as the first book, with majority of the same characters, but a bit sad in places too.

See the real Scotland Street, kindly posted by Linda on her Occasional Scotland blog.

LISTENING: Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

Read by Erin Moon. (An excellent reader.)
Recorded Books, 2009 (Book published by Turnstone Press, Canada, 1996.)

"Toews's first novel, The Summer of My Amazing Luck, finds humour and poignancy in unexpected locales. The protagonist is a teenaged single mother, on welfare, who moves to a low-income housing project in Winnipeg to escape the emotional trauma left in the wake of her own mother's death. Toews invokes, ridicules, and defies class-based stereotypes in her portrayal of these lively characters' daily struggles, from cheap strollers to lost love, and joys. This book won the 1996 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and was adapted into an award winning drama by playwright Chris Craddock." - The Canadian Encyclopedia

LISTENING: 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith

Read by Robert Ian Mackenzie; first book of the 44 Scotland St. series.

An absolutely delightful series of vignettes about the characters occupying 44 Scotland St.