Robert’s Reviews > Broken Homes > Status Update

Struggling a bit with concentration at the moment - too many work things going on at the same time. It's affecting my ability to keep my head in the story...

"I made the usual squirmy excuses and promises of the fully grown man faced with his mum's uncanny ability to knock ten years of his age at will." Great line. But: only ten years?

Wondering whether the badly translated German book title is a fiendishly clever in-joke (as the very next sentence mocks the use of Google Translate) or just really lazy editing. For the record, it should be "Über die Grundlagen die der Praxis der Magie zugrunde liegen" which means "About the basics that practicing magic is based on"... which is quite naff / repetitive / a bit of a Bushism.