Cool. Have fun with the burgers.

With a File in it?

It would be useful.

Ah, thank you. Yes, it's weird. I never bought any book in Spanish.

Double post:
I forgot, that I wanted to write something about the German titles of the Dresden Files. By the way, my husband is still stuck in the middle of Storm Front. He doesn't read much. But he says he likes the book. OK. He's been reading it for almost a year now. Sigh. This is something we don't have in common. If I like a book, I don't stop reading for weeks, and I read at every opportunity. Even sometimes during cooking. If it wasn't considered impolite, I would even take books to parent's meetings, to have something interesting with me, when the conversation gets boring. 
I always carry some book around with me.

OK, now to the titles.

Storm Front → Sturmnacht
That would translate as Storm Night. To be honest, not a bad title but the German phrasing Sturmfront does also exist and means the same, so why not take that? Whatever *shrugs*

Fool Moon → Wolfsjagd
=Wolf hunt. It's OK.

Grave Peril → Grabesruh
= the quiet or stillness of the grave
Not quite the meaning. The people translating the title either didn't understand the pun or they had no idea how to put that into the title.

Summer Knight → Feenzorn
= the wrath of the fae
That's OK. Referring to the content. There is no way to write a sound alike Summer Knight and Summer Night. The exact translation would be "Sommerritter", but I wouldn't buy a book with a title like that. That sounds like Rosamunde Pilcher doing middle ages. LOL

Death Masks → Silberlinge
referring to the silver coins. I'm not sure about the translation: maybe silverlings?
That title sounds pretty harmless, compared to the content if the book.

Blood Rites → Bluthunger
=blood thirst or more exactly hunger (funny, it's the same word)
I would have called it Blutritual.

Dead Beat → Erlkönig
OK. Someone has read the book and chose the title representing another aspect of the content. The Erlking.

Funny, when I try to describe the books using only one word or one sentence, Dead Beat is "zombie dinosaur" for me. It took me a while to remember the Erlking was in there, too.

Proven Guilty → Schuldig
= guilty. This is the only title I like better in German, because it's only one short and precise word.

White Night → Weiße Nächte
= White nights, plural. Why plural? No idea. A title translated almost exactly, except for the plural.

Small Favor → Kleine Gefallen
The same, also plural.

Turn Coat → Verrat
= treachery, a turncoat would be "Überläufer/ Verräter"

Changes → Wandel
Exact translation even in the context oft the book. Another word would be "Veränderungen", but this doesn't sound quite so fitting as a book title.

Ghost Story → Geistergeschichten
Another word for word translation only set in plural again. It seems, the title creator seemed to like plural.

Cold Days → Eiskalt
=freezing / cold as ice

Skin Game → Blendwerk
Hm, a bit archaic version of "deception". But fitting as a title for this book.

Peace Talks →Friedensgespräche
Word for word and this time the plural is even in the English title.

Battle Ground → ?
I can't find it yet on amazon, but I predict it will be called "Schlachtfeld" or "Schlachtfelder", as the title creator likes plural, LOL


OK. I admit, some of them are not so bad, considering you can't possibly do every pun or wordplay in another language.


Also the Dresden Files are called "Die dunklen Fälle des Harry Dresden"= the dark files/cases of Harry Dresden.

I would either avoid him or if I were Mab, I would use him. 

About your first paragraph: I think that is why Mab wants Lara around Harry (at events and such). The mantle influence may affect her the way Lea affected Molly.

About the second: Lara become the WL freeing Molly in the process (don't know details). They rescue Justine, that keeps being her secretary and spends time with her because of the baby. Then, in the BAT Mab dies, Lara become Mab, Justine become the WL and Thomas, to stay with her, became the WK (thus releasing Harry of his obligations). All planned by Mab, of course.

This would be cool. I was thinking of Justine as the Lady, too.

The only part of all this I don't like is Mab dying. But this is something personal, because she is my favourite character. I try to prepare myself for the possibility though.

I don't mean to argue with anyone who does experience Murphy fatigue! Different personalities, different character resonances! I think part of what's happening for me--I do like to "plug myself in" as a character, and (being a woman) once a character is gorgeous, BAM! up goes the wall.  I'm never going to be able to imagine myself *as* Molly, or *as* Lara.  Like, every time they're described, I kinda feel badly about myself.  Without Murphy, I go from being *in* the story, to a spectator.  (I'm literally a short blond disaffected Catholic 35-year-old . . . named Karen.)

I really like the poetry y'all.   

I also do that sometimes, I unconsciously choose a character to identify myself with. At first it is mostly the main character, even if he or she is nothing like me, even if I wouldn't like to be like him or her, but not always. I only start to feel "at home" in a book, after I have found that person. The characters can change during reading and sometimes during a reread.
When I was reading the first book of GOT about a few hundred years ago, I chose Eddard Stark as my "anchor" to the book. Yeah. Well done. LOL
After that it was Jon Snow. I loved that in the TV series I could feel the same.

In the DF I do love Mab. I would be terribly upset, if Mab died. She is by far my favourite character ever since Summer Knight. If I had to choose, which character of the books I had to cosplay, it would be Mab. Though I fear I would end up looking more like Charity. 

But I mourned Murphy too. OK, I admit I didn't really mourn Murphy but more Harry's loss. I don't have any particular feelings for or against Murphy, but I like what she means to Harry. I always disliked Susan and didn't believe she was the reason for his true love protection. I always thought it must have been Murphy. In my head she always was and Harry just believed it was Susan.

So I can totally understand and feel with you, what it means to loose a "chosen" character.