As charmingly ridiculous as Bavarian television often is, I have found reading in the evenings to be more stimulating for my imagination than "watching distantly" (or "fernsehen", in German). I recently picked up The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason, at a thrift store and it has proved to be an exquisite find. An unusual tale of a man who travels to Burma during the British occupation to repair a piano, at the behest of a very curious general who believes in bringing peace through music, the novel is one tremendous adventure interwoven with many other mystical small stories and lovely observations of natural beauty. The book isn't long, so I'm trying to ration myself, and not read too far ahead any one night....
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