I really enjoyed this book. Such a great exploration of life through the eyes of two old women who are arch rivals!

People are rotten everywhere you go. They‘re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let‘s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

I am in Paris for the weekend and the first thing i did was to locate this absolutely charming bookstore just opposite the Notre Dame... they have a cat in their reading room! 📚❤📚❤📚
#bookheaven

For this was a poisoner with forethought.

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window...

It was summer when I came home, and I wore sleeveless dresses, and I didn't realise I was so skinny. But I saw people look at me with fear...

In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.

Another year, and I still don't like old people. Their Zimmer-frame shuffle, their unreasonable impatience, their endless complaints, their tea and biscuits, their bellyaching.
Me? I am eighty-three years old. 😉😁😁

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking....
This should keep me busy for a couple of weeks!
Happy Reading 💚📚💚📚💚📚💚

And the adventures of Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi continue. I have loved this series from the very beginning!

I was solitary before, but nowmy solitariness becomes complete and awesome. Hence the dizziness, like vertigo. Like a statue on a plinth - that is how I live now.

I am an honest person, and so you should know from the start that in this story my intentions are not honorable.

Both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped.