Morality for Beautiful Girls

by Alexander McCall Smith

Saccharine description of life in a rose tinted Botswana. Occassionally funny and readable. Literary equivalent of watching an episode of Friends - light, airy and inconsequential.

Tears of the Giraffe

This was probably the most interesting of the three I've read. He makes a few points about Africa being neither like the famine stricken hell hole depicted in the news nor the picture postcard view shown in safari brochures and wildlife documentaries, but instead a lively, slow paced rural continent with local people full of life. In this respect he is accurate and I suppose he deserves credit for presenting another facet of life in Africa to a mass audience.