New book club

    Last week I joined a new book club that meets at Anne Marie's apartment just east of St. Clair West station.  Our first book (my suggestion) was Larry McMurty's entertaining essay collection Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, which I read over twenty years ago.  It's about rural Texas, a writer's life and a lot more!  Last week I also met with the memoir group at Sylvie's house again.

    I got a new pair of curtains for the windows in my room.  It's been a cool spring, but now it's warm enough for open windows!  Soon it'll be warm enough to leave them open at night...

    We finally got the garden planted, but there's still a lot of space left over. (John will be bringing us some tomato plants.) Moira made a couple of rhubarb pies!

    The problem with crunchyroll.com is straightened out.  One Piece is now doing Kuma's compelling backstory. (The show's full of compelling backstories!) I've also started watching Dragon Ball Daima.  I'm not sure it'll be any good, but it is part of the Dragon Ball saga.

    Today John P. and I visited the Art Gallery of Ontario again. (We can't find any movies to see just now.) Afterward we ate Chinese food.  My fortune cookie told me not to do tomorrow what I can do today, which reminded me to make a new entry in this blog!

    I've almost finished the book about Assyria.  Next month I think I'll make Hungary our subject!

    I've found a new city-building game on Facebook set in the Roman era, Empire City. (I passed Level 3000 in Candy Crush Saga, and now I'm in the 3030s.)

    We've been watching some interesting silent movies on Kanopy.  Last week we saw Ernst Lubitsch's German silents The Doll and The Oyster Princess, which were really funny!  Last night it was Louise Brooks in G.W. Pabst's The Diary of a Lost Girl. (I remember seeing these movies at the Cinematheque in the 1990s with a live piano accompaniment.)