A wild ride through my reading list

It's time for football (soccer) and the guys are glued to the European matches on TV. I'm even learning to recognize names, and I have to admit a shared delight in those goals where skill takes precedence over failure to defend. Yes, there really is something about football--it even distracts me from reading books sometimes.

But here are last week's book reviews, just to prove football can't distract me all the time. One of them's even a translation from the German, which proves I might try to...