My friends, Donna and Carla, (yes, I have friends! even with that chip on the shoulder) persuaded me to start reading The No. 1 Ladies' Dectective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith recently and I am glad they did.

I don't read much fiction generally, unless it is presented as caselaw or science and I happen across it by accident, but I am glad I have started on this book. It has a lot of feminist and indigenous sensibilities and that has great appeal to me.

Here's a quote from page 35:

"The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought."