solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is candice millard's destiny of the republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president. the story is of the rise of james a. garfield to president of the united states. along with the story of garfield is the story of his assassin, charles guiteau. reading this book has revealed garfield to be a very decent individual and guiteau to be a very evil, though most likely mentally ill, person. the surprise in the book is discussion of what is going on the country/world as the garfield/guiteau story unfolds.