On the way home after a wonderful visit last night, we stopped at Schuler Books.
On the road
A gentle madness
Recent acquisitions.
Saturday morning
Image captured on June 14 walk.
News of Alan Arkin’s death prompted me to set aside Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty yesterday and watch Glengarry Glen Ross (appreciation here) and Little Miss Sunshine. It had been a long time since I had last seen GGR, but LMS is one I have revisited; both, as they say, hold up. A friend recommended Arkin’s books for younger readers, so I read The Lemming Condition earlier this year (review here); I may pull the sequel from the shelf today.
It’s a gloomy, gray, humid morning here, the sort of morning during which one thinks about the many things one could do, then actually accomplishes little. I’d like to buck that trend. (Is anyone else chuckling?)
Novel
A few new books awaited me when I returned from adventuring on Saturday.
Roman
Seen at the Milwaukee Art Museum this weekend.
Milwaukee Public Museum
We enjoyed member appreciation hours on Saturday.
A few more books
Two gifts and one recommendation.
I’m halfway through My Murder and about 150 pages into Empire of Pain; music practice is going well; and I’m (slowly) developing a routine for studying Latin.
The drought continues, so I’m using weepers on the days permitted for our location to ensure the trees and bushes make it through another summer. The containers and raised beds are doing all right, but the finches have begun to shred the sedum despite my vigilant refilling of the bird bath.
Everything’s coming up…
More images from our Chicago Botanic Garden visit.
Blooms, butterflies
We arrived at the Chicago Botanic Garden for member hours and remained to see the butterflies. What a lovely morning.
And a few more
Reading Empire of Pain today.
Nerdishly 