Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld returns in this fourth intallment of a seriously ironic take on German academic culture. Here's a good question: if Herr Prof Dr Dr honoris causa multi von Igelfeld wife's name is Frau Prof Dr Dr hcm Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld, what happens when the same Frau becom......more

Book 4 in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series by Alexander McCall Smith 'starring' the famous philologist Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld from Regensburg. The professor is amazingly naive allowing male and female students to share a room in a reading break in the Bavarian Alps, insulting a......more

I am writing a single review for all four books of the series here. These books have a very subtle humor to them, a humor that is likely under-appreciated by some readers. This humor is philosophical, certainly not the type of immediate humor that would be found on a sitcom or something. Perhaps I wo......more

I was surprised to see this book appear at our library since it has been nearly a decade since the original trilogy appeared. Fans of Alexander McCall Smith may or may not enjoy this series. It is a very quirky, in fact, off-the-wall zany humor. It is not everyone's cup of tea (or, ahem, stein of be......more

I love this series. I read it with a German accent.......more