Author Archive
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Title: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Author: Patrick Suskind Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Vintage (November 7, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307277763 ISBN-13: 978-0307277763 Aviva and I rented the DVD of the movie based on this book. I loved it, so I grabbed a copy (with my 15% off birthday coupon) from Borders. This is the story […]
August 15th, 2007 by alephnaught
Visit with my son for my mom’s 82nd birthday
Nathan and I both traveled to Columbus to visit my mom. Nathan and Terry drove down from Monroe, MI, and I caught a flight to Columbus. My mom has her 82nd birthday coming up and we celebrated it on the Saturday before. We had a nice dinner together. From front clockwise – Terry, Nathan, Joe, […]
August 9th, 2007 by alephnaught
Paper model of Chartres Cathedral – IT’S DONE!
I bought a model to assemble of the famous Chartres Cathedral in the Cathedral gift shop, and this entry will track how I put it together. The model is large, at least 2 1/2 feed long and a foot or so wide. Its pretty complex with a lot of little parts (mostly the flying buttresses), […]
August 8th, 2007 by alephnaught
Brochure from Chartres Cathedral paper model – Cathédrale De Chartre
(The following text and pictures are from the paper model kit (you can see the kit as it was assembled at my blog here) I assembled of Chartres Cathedral) Chartres is more than just a place: first and foremost it is the cathedral. If the name of Chartres echoes so strongly in the heart and […]
July 24th, 2007 by alephnaught
Anansi Boys
Title: Anansi Boys Author: Neil Gaiman Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (September 26, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0060515198 ISBN-13: 978-0060515195 Neil Gaiman is a story teller in the old tradition of story tellers. Gaiman writes in the acknowledgement, “…. was the person who persuaded me that the story I told her over lunch […]
July 23rd, 2007 by alephnaught
Leaving Paris for home
We slept okay, got up and got breakfast and cleaned up. We have a cab for the airport at 11:30AM. We hope the We hope we’ll get home in time to pick up our dog, Basil – he’s getting old and we want to limit his time away from us now. Below are pictures of […]
July 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught
Paris
We got going, taking a cab over to Musée Jacquemart-André, which is a small private collection on the right bank. They have a few rooms of Italian Renaissance paintings, including a Uccello painting of “St. George and the Dragon.” We ate a wonderful lunch at their cafe – they specialize in salads, I had one […]
July 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught
24 Declassified: Chaos Theory
Title: : 24 Declassified: Chaos Theory Author: : John Whitman Mass Market Paperback: : 240 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment (May 29, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0060842296 SBN-13: 978-0060842291 Read this one in Paris. As usual, it was a quick, fun read. Jack Bauer faces his most unusual foe yet, one that doesn’t follow patterns. The last […]
July 21st, 2007 by alephnaught
Paris and the Louvre
We got a comfortable start to the day – we’ve been waking up at 7AM but not getting out of the hotel til around 10AM most mornings. The weather has been superb, partly to mostly sunny with highs in the 70s F. Today we took a cab to the Louvre – we could have walked, […]
July 20th, 2007 by alephnaught
Paris and Chartres
We got up slowly, ate a leasurely breakfast and headed towards the Louvre. Our bus tour to Chartres left at 1:45P, so we had some time to walk around. We stopped at the Sennelier shop (they sell artist supplies and Aviva loves to shop there when we’re in Paris). We walked by a statue of […]
August 15th, 2007 by alephnaught