The Diary of a Madman (& other stories), Nikolai Gogol, though I've read "The Overcoat" prior...high school maybe...will probably read it again with the other four stories. That collection I had been reading, Idiots First, Malamud, is nice, a slice of immigrant life in the U.S. One story takes place just before Hitler began chewing on Europe.
The American cemetery in the Netherlands. On my IP's homepage for today, different pic each days...or pics. Have another collection waiting after this one...Fire in the Hole, from Leonard. In Malamud's collection, there is one called "The Jewbird" and this story is a hoot. Check it out. A crow visits a family on the East Coast. Heh! Too...in "The German Refugee" last story in his collection, there's a tad of German. I was reading a paperback from 1966 a 75-cent Dell that managed to hold together long enough to get to the end...but one thing that always drove me crazy with stories was the inclusion of a language other than English. Yeah, go ahead and jump on your high horse about Americans and language. Seems like the photo above indicates a good many of us had no problem not speaking the language. Anyway...had I been reading this one on the kindle, there's that handy tool that you can use to highlight/translate, although even with the kindle I've come across phrases not in some data-base. Here's the phrase: "Ich bin dir siebenundzwanzig Jahre treu gewesen."
