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Amazon Editorial Review

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the condesc...

This is on its way to my partner in kiki66's Candy Exchange, hope you ynjoy it :-)

thank you so much for this wishlist-book :)
I really love McCall Smith books, especially the Scotland Street and the von Igelfeld stories!

FORGOT the journal entry: enjoyed this book but not so much as the earlier Igelfeld stories!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Thank you so much for this wish list book - a great birthday surprise!! I'm also a fan of the books by McCall Smith. Thank you very much for the BC-labels and the card, too.

EDIT:
TBR and reserved for kirjakko as a part of the Finnish wislist-tag-game (Hippa)

I enjoyed this part of the series, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and the Librarian are just lovable characters :)

Next to Kirjakko, I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I did! Wishing you Merry Christmas!

I'll take part in the Scotland-themed release challenge of AspenYard with this controlled release as McCall Smith is a Scottish writer.

KTMC 2014 # 112

Oh, the saga of the German Professor Doktors continues...
And it's always nice to see some familiar names among the previous readers, hello yorkshire-lass and Releanna (and lukutuoli, of course)! Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and a happy year 2015, filled with good books, good friends and - in Frasier's words - good mental health!

Just here to comment while reading: The librarian telling the story of the two Ingas is just like some of our clients when making an appointment. They begin from Adam and tell every twist and turn of their pet's life in general and health in particular and you listen and try to stay sharp as you think that all this links to the current issue - but in the end they say: "But today I'd like to make an appointment for his booster vaccination" and on a good day you feel like hitting them on the head 😈. And don't get me wrong, I do love a good story and some of our clients have become good friends of mine. Once I've been treated for a long weekend in Paris and another time I attended a birthday party in Moulin Rouge + Paris by night in a 40-year-old Renault -sight-seeing tour, so I must be doing something right ☺. That reminds me, Releanne, are you doing your homework 😊? Edit: I never get it right the first time; It's Releanna, of course. See you soooooon.

Olive oil appeared in the very last chapter. Prof. Dr. stayed true to his style to the end.
I will send this next to one of the winners of my 5-year-bookiversary on the Finnish forum. She has several McCall Smiths on her wishlist.

Olive oil has left the building. Hope the receiver likes it.

What a surprise :) Ganz wunderbar, vielen, vielen dank kirjakko! I know for sure I'm going to enjoy professors doings a lot.

I did enjoy this hilarious book a lot :)

Some of my favourite lines were these:

"... it's almost always the dull and boring ones who have hidden depths." (p.78)

And when Prinzel is talking about marriage ... "I am proposing to read a bit more about it." (p49)

"And I wouldn't necessarily say that I fell. I descended rapidly. There is a distinction, you know." (p. 165)

Enjoyable time with Professor Dr von Igelfeld!

Thank you so much!

Best one of this series so far - gently amusing, interesting. Makes me wonder if German professors are really like this :)

Sending to Ronya next!

Thanks Chania, looking forward to read this.