A Summer Saturday at Leopold’s

Saturday 08.13.22

Leopold’s. Books. Bar. Caffe. Where better to spend a summer Saturday afternoon deep in a book or lost in your own project? Admittedly a gauntlet of concrete and partied-out buildings line these college blocks of Regent Street, but that’s easy to forget sitting at a table barricaded from the outside world by vibrant red flowers and evergreens. We’ve spent enough afternoons under the awning, sipping coffee or Black Walnut Manhattans, that Lucas is worried about wearing out our welcome. But I think we fit in just fine. Leopold’s feels like it has a little something for everyone. To walk among the bookshelves is to take a literary world tour, with most sections grouped by country rather than genre. Yesterday Lucas even mastered a new Leopold’s skill — carrying both our drinks outside without spilling, angling his butt to ease the door open past its sticking point. Perhaps it’s that Lucas never has a book in hand, though often enough he has one in his ears, that prevents him from feeling like one of the (book) club. But I always carry enough for both of us, two or three or five, because you never know what you might want to read next.

Favorite Reads of the Summer

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. WIlkinson

Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

The Witch's Heart
by Genevieve Gornichec

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
by India Holton