Fiction

This summer I'm trying to up my German reading to "comfortable" instead of painful. It was good enough to make my way through math papers or manuals, but I'm reading fiction now and that's a lot more fun

Finished last week the German translation of Hilary Davidson's _The Damage Done_ and yesterday, _Enders Spiel_. It still pisses me off the Card went so off the rails, because even in translation the construction of the book and the focus on the feelings of the child are really moving. Added bonus: this is my third time reading it and I'm turning 60 this year and I found myself really identifying with Colonel Graff this time around. I rarely re-read, but it is a pleasure, some times, to visit things decades apart.

Now I'm on to an older mystery, _Der Richter and sein Henker_ by Durenmatt. Not sure where I'll go from there, because my local libraries don't have fiction in German. Guess I'll go to the downtown Milwaukee library and see what they have. Went into B&N yesterday and the only foreign language fiction they had was in Spanish, which makes sense.

Not looking for classics--mysteries and SF and lighter novels are just fine. If I want serious stuff, I'll probably read it in English translation so I know I'm getting the right sense. But for entertainment, I'll be happy to peruse auf Deutsch.