Just found a new reader review on the German Amazon...

The money quote, with the helpful attention of Babelfish, would be this:

"It is altogether seen a very beautiful, calm book, with which one should have a package of handkerchiefs in the proximity, because it is also very sad."

Thanks, German reader!

(Oh, and on a not totally unrelated note - those of you who have responded to the "do you want books for review" post - the comments ARE screened, nobody will see it, but I DO need an address to which the review books need to go - so go back and make sure you've left me one, or else email it to me with REVIEW COPIES in the subjectline of the email - and thanks for all the interest!)

Critter alert!

Outside my window, right now: Mama Deer with two tiny, tiny, exquisite spotted baby fawns.

I love my office.