She wrote about it so persuasively and wittily, in novels that swarmed with nosy in-laws, grasping landlords, Bollywood nawabs and whining beggars, that readers assumed she was Indian.However, she was not, and could never be.
Worst: Nosy log-in questions and banner ads.
Two of these are in the northern part of the country in the districts of Ambanja and Antsohihy; and the third is in Nosy Varika in the south, which has been struck by floods and also recurrent droughts.
There's something about the repetitive familiarity and the faux-proximity of nosying in on their lives from the comfort of your sofa, which makes it hard to disentangle the actor from the series, soap... or indeed Sopranos.
Tour participants also head in different directions, going to see the leaf-tailed gecko on Nosy Mongabe in the north or, perhaps, the spiny desert in the south.
Small Space panders to the nosy parker in us all, while bringing what happens in the play closer to our own lives.
Weaver learns that even his own identity has been stolen to serve the organization's sinister ends: a fellow Tourist, a cold-blooded assassin who derives "real pleasure in planning a murder," has employed it to eliminate a nosy reporter in Budapest.
In early July we spent two weeks on the island of Nosy Be in Madagascar, returning there for the first time since the contested presidential election of 2001 set off nationwide rioting.
Misery indeed loves company, and when we know that our friend's sister-in-law is an alcoholic, we feel better about our nosy, opinionated mother-in-law.
