What Is It About Art?

A good read especially having visited London for the first time. I get the gist of this novel. Thoughtful. Disappointments. Expectations. All shared in characters' day to day existence. Having recently spending time in London for the first time, I realized the setting that the story line is played is spot on. Helps me reference the experiences the characters encounter and the locations. The Names of the area, the language of what's spoken, helps me understand the story much better with appreciation. Totally relatable at times with love gain, lost, and all in between. The human spirit is always at constant reflect.  Now, if only the writer would have expanded more with the characters in their lives and what could have been reading. Just my thought.  Again, a good read on creating a climate of change in human behavior, politics, and relationships. 

I've created a new blog website to encompass this new adventure. Join me as I continue to celebrate a part of my retirement to more traveling and on my own terms.  Visit my new blog website, appropriately called, Edgar Would Go!  https://edgarwouldgo.com/ London, UK - Tower Bridge 

Photo Credit Portions of the Berlin Wall in the men's restroom at Main Street Station casino in Las Vegas . ( Flickr user Bryan Hughes ) In the Main Street Station Casino in Las Vegas, men can do something they would have been severely punished for doing in Berlin pre-1989 : pee on the Berlin Wall. In reality, a glass barrier prevents any urine from splashing on the historic wall, but the men's room at the Main Street Station Casino does have a section of the Berlin Wall, upon which three urinals are mounted. Boyd Gaming Corporation , who currently owns Main Street, told CNN that the Wall was already in the bathroom when the company bought the property. Female patrons aren't completely out of luck—according to CNN, they can request that a security guard escort them into the bathroom to look at the Wall. Source

  A brief assessment after reading this novel, not surprised, predictable in the world of art industry where one so much as wants to be accomplished and successful as a reputable artist , and end up not making a dent in this competitive field. I'm not surprised, but it was worth a read and being drawn into this world of art collection , and get a glimpse of their dealings. It was a smart and engaging book, wish I had more time to really get lost in this novel. It ended too soon. Hope to read the next book from B.A. Shapiro . 

  It took me awhile to read this memoir from Madam Secretary , but it's so appropriate to have completed reading this memoir as we are in an election year. How funny is it that some of her challenges back in in the 1990s is here again. Repackaged in a way that is seemed like something new but realize it's something that could have been resolved back then takes center stage in an attempt to win an election.  I remember very well how those very issues were pressing, but our American government lacked the political will to make things whole on behalf of the American people and global citizens. Seems like it becomes a generational attempt of presenting something that's old but reworked to be something acutely important today.  Madam Secretary, clearly documents and shares her trials and tribulations of being a first female Secretary of State . Personally, I found it refreshing as I knew she as up to the tasked. As a public service for so many years, it seemed fitting that sh...