{"id":642,"date":"2004-04-15T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/04\/the_kalahari_ty\/"},"modified":"2004-04-15T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T12:02:57","slug":"the_kalahari_ty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/the_kalahari_ty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kalahari Typing School for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell that I&#8217;ve been away with very little to do? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349117047\">The Kalahari Typing School for Men<\/a> is the fourth in the No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency series.<br \/>\nYou either like these books or you don&#8217;t &#8211; they&#8217;re slight, and inoffensive, but they take you away to another world. And although AIDS doesn&#8217;t really raise it&#8217;s head in a country (Botswana) that&#8217;s ravaged by it, it&#8217;s inferred.<br \/>\nMma Ramotswe has a particularly slight case to deal with this time, although she faces a competitor who&#8217;s worked for the Jo&#8217;burg CID and has once visited New York. This impresses a lot of people. Meanwhile her assistant, Mma Makutsi, has started a typing school for men who are embarrassed about their lack of skills, and may have found love.<br \/>\nIf I say that I read this on the train from Norwich to Liverpool Street, and the train wasn&#8217;t delayed, you&#8217;ll get an idea of how long a book like this really delays you.<br \/>\nAs an aside, isn&#8217;t it annoying when ask for a single from Norwich to London and it&#8217;s GBP30.30. Then you ask the cost of an off-peak return and it&#8217;s GBP31.30? I payed the extra pound even though I&#8217;m not sure how I can use the ticket. It can get me one way to somewhere like Colchester, Ipswich or Diss I guess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell that I&#8217;ve been away with very little to do? The Kalahari Typing School for Men is the fourth in the No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency series. You either like these books or you don&#8217;t &#8211; they&#8217;re slight, and inoffensive, but they take you away to another world. And although AIDS doesn&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}