(You can catch up on what my Reading Challenge is all about here.)

Book: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.

Verdict: Again, I'm way behind on updating my reading challenge... I actually finished this book back on April 19. My friends and I recently started a Sunday Brunch Book Club, where we meet once a month to discuss a book we've all read over yummy food and adult beverages. I finished the book the morning of book club.

It was an easy, quick read, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I had expected to. No one in our book club was a real fan, which is surprising because everyone outside the book club, as well as a lot of people online, all seemed to really like it. Maybe you need to read more than just the first book, but I don't really want to spend my time on that. If you can't hook me in your first book, you won't get me for the series. I was kind of hoping it would be a little more like an adult Nancy Drew book, but not so much. The mysteries weren't even interesting and were solved in about two seconds. I just really didn't get the point. Plus the writing was just... odd. Somewhat overly simplified.

Next up on the Reading Challenge: Still going off list. Next up for the book club is what I keep calling "the potato peel book." Just got the book today. Our next book club meeting is May 31... hopefully it's easy to read in small pieces, because my next few weekends are looking to be pretty busy.