Crime Novels
Two books for you to consider: The first, and best, is In the Woods, by Tana French. Set in Ireland, it's an engrossing detective story with a good narrator and lots of interesting sub-plots. There's a sequel to it, The Likeness, which I haven't read, but very much intend to. The next book is a true crime novel, The Monster of Florence, about a serial killer in Florence during the 70s and 80s. It's interesting and scary at the beginning. It is less good as it begins to focus on the absurd police response. That part is definitely interesting, but Read more…
Titlow Lodge Opening this weekend!
This weekend Metro Parks is celebrating the centennial of Titlow Lodge and also it's grand re-opening. Things start Saturday around 11 am and go until 3, with tours, low tide walks, and complimentary chowder from Steamers. More here at Metro Parks site. Hope to see you there!
Three movies
Midnight in Paris, Super 8, and The Hangover Part II Midnight in Paris is a Woody Allen comedy. It's his best movie since Match Point, and his best comedy since the mid-90s. Owen Wilson is great, and the supporting cast is too. This was a summer charmer. Super 8 was good. It's exciting, it's funny, it's touching, and the kid actors are really great. This was a fun movie. It's directed by JJ Abrams, and produced by Spielberg, and it's definitely got flavors of both of them. It's not 100%–there's some stuff that doesn't quite work, but a lot that Read more…
Pictures from our week in New York City
I've fallen in love with the iPhone app Instagram, which is where I shared a lot of these pictures over the last week (and gave them that vintage look). So my apologies for not getting them on here. Here's what we saw. These first two are from the Highline, a long park that goes along Manhattan from about 14th to 30th streets. This part is on the new part that opened while we were there. This was our first breakfast spot, The Paris Commune. Loved their frontage. This is outside Schiller's, a French bistro on the Lower East Side. This Read more…
A week in the Big Apple!
This week was a real surprise. In March, I was in DC for a parks conference for two days. Mary and I decided that it was going to be a rare opportunity to get back to New York. We hadn't been in about three years, and there just didn't seem to be any opportunities to come for a few more either. So we came and spent a somewhat cold two days walking the city, seeing art movies, and getting our last fix in. Until. Until we got the opportunity to cat-sit for a week in an apartment two blocks south of Read more…
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