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Morality for Beautiful Girls

Morality for Beautiful Girls is written by Alexander McCall Smith. The book is a detective story and it has been published in 2004. It’s third volume of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and it’s protagonist is Mma Ramotswe who lives in Botswana.

The book tells about a woman called Mma Ramotswe who is the founder and owner of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Africa. Ramotswe is a patient and clever woman who works with her cousin called Mma Makutsi. Relationship between Ramotswe and Makutsi are very close and they face puzzling cases together. Ramotswe deside to share detective agency with Mr J.L.B. Maketoni who owner the Road Speedy Motors garage and he is Ramotswe’s upcoming husband. Later in the book Mr J.L.B. Maketoni suffer from depression and Ramotswe faces comlicated case where in the forest found a strange young boy who smelling of lion.

The book’s narrator is third person omniscient who tells protagonist and also the other characters thinks and feels. Narrator describes even characters facial expressions and I think that it cheer up the story of the book. In my opinion narrator describes characters well and makes them more interesting.

My favourite part of the book is the end of story because there everything turned out for the best and puzzling cases get resolved.

In my opinion it was nice to read the book in English and it was a new experience for me. Even though I thought that the book was at first a little bit confused because it was full of new names and characters. But later when I came along the book’s plot I thought that it was all in all exciting and successful story of Mma Ramotswe who faced supreme problems at home and work in Africa. I would recommend this book to everyone who like exciting adventure stories.

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The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) is both comedy and drama film directed by David Frankel. In leading roles of the film are Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep).

The movie tells about a young girl called Andy Sachs. She is a journalist who got the second assistant job in New York’s the most biggest fashion magazine, Runway. Miranda Priestly is stylish Runway’s editor in chief who demand the impossible from her employees. Andy’s assistant job in Runway takes a lot of time and it is very challenging. Her phone rings continuously and that’s why her relationship between boyfriend suffer. Later in the movie when Andy’s private life is almost broken she succeed in her job and get promoted.

When I watched the movie I thought that it was a beautiful story of young girl who wanted to be great journalist in New York City. Even though the end of movie surprised me I think that the movie is all in all successful.

In my opinion Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep are both great actors and they fit in their leading roles very well because their characters are believable. Also the other actors of the movie fit to their role perfectly.

I think that Anne Hathaway’s character Andy change a little bit when she started assistant job in Runway because before assistant job Andy was a young girl who didn’t follow fashion and she wore horrible clothes. But later when she worked in Runway she started to use trendy clothes and follow fashion.

The end of the movie was interesting because there happened surprising scene when everything turned out for the best. In my opinion the movie’s camerawork and script were wonderful. The movie includes a lot of well-known actors who perform in different scenes. All in all the movie was action-packed, funny and compelling. I like this movie a lot and it is absolutely worth watching.

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