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01 November 2011
Must see before going to the Art Institute of Chicago
An upcoming trip to a family get-together in 'The Windy City' where I hope to visit the Art Institute prompted my purchase of this video and I was not disappointed.
Sister Wendy has a presetation style that is easy to follow and from which I learned a lot about some of the many holdings of the institute. 'SPOILER ALERT' Among the paintings she describes is a Picasso in which the artist initially painted himself along with his first wife Olga and their child into the painting. When the marriage started to fall apart, the artist literally cut himself out of the painting! The museum has both pieces hanging with a space between them!
A feature of this video that I enjoyed is that at times, Sister Wendy's remarks are interspersed with street scenes of Chicago.
04 October 2011
Get 'In Harm's Way'
What can I say, I'm a diehard Ridley Pearson fan, having read all of his Lou Boldt and now his Walt Fleming series. Not a bad story among them!
What's cool about In Harm's Way is having Lou and Walt work together, giving the reader insights to how their respective turfs influence their perspectives on crime solving. Along the way you see the mutual respect they have for each other and the uniqueness of their respective jurisdictions.
Not to be left out are the twists and turns that the story takes while you are reading it.
A real page turner. Can't wait to see if Ridley pairs them up again or even better (in my humble opinion) would be for Walt to team up with Daphne, using her profiling abilities in solving a case.
As long as he's created the characters, might as well put them to work as much as possible!
17 November 2011
Grisham's 'The Confession' Must Read!
Somewhere along the line I stopped reading Grisham's works, because they I longer found his lawyer characters or their situations to be of interest.
I decided to give him another chance with The Confession as I had the sense from reading descriptions of the story that it would not be so lawyer centered, and I was right.
I don't use this term lightly; the book was a real page-turner, right from the beginning. It's easy to become preachy when using a novel as a bully pulpit for expressing one's views on the death penalty, but Grisham easily avoides that pitfall.