Recently Read Books

  • Kill Shot - Vince Flynn (fiction)
  • The Private Patient- P.D. James (fiction)
  • Supreme Power - Jeff Shesol (non-fiction)
  • Night Vision-Rendy Wayne White (fiction)
  • The Reserve- Russell Banks (fiction)
  • That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan (non-fiction)
  • Private LIves - Noel Coward (a Play from 1930)
  • Faulkner - Joseph Blotner (700 page biography of Willam Faulkner)
  • The Most Beauiful Walk in the World - John Baxter (non-fiction about Paris)
  • At Random - The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf -Published in 1977
  • Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government For a Strong Economy - Bill Clinton
  • Zero day by David Baldacci ( I read all of Baldacci's Books)
  • Jack Kennedy (Elusive Hero) - Chris Matthews
  • Joseph Pulitzer - a biograph by James McGrath Morris
  • Northwest Angle - William Kent Krueger (fiction - I have read 5 or 6 books by this author)
  • Portrait of a Spy - Daniel Silva (one of my favorite authors)
  • The BIg Short - Michael Lewis
  • Palace Council - by Stephen L. Carter (the author is a law professor and the author of fiction and non-fiction. I am going to read all of them
  • Buried Secrets - Joseph Finder (very good fiction)
  • Money and Power by William Cohan (How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the War)
  • Cradle of Gold - Christopher Heaney (the Discovery of Machu PIcchu)
  • Citizens of London by Lynne Olsen
  • J. P. Morgan, American Financier
  • The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream - H.W. Brands.
  • Freefall - Joseph Stiglitz (financial crisis)
  • A Colossal Failure of Common Sense - The Collapse of Lehman Brothers
  • Last Lion; The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
  • Childe Hassam -Impressionist (a beautiful book of his paintings)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

My Backyard Today


 I just finished watching the New Hampshire debate on MSNBC.  I thought Jon Huntsman did a very good job.  I could certainly support him for president.  We finally received some snow in Salt Lake City.  Here are a couple of pictures I just took of our backyard from our bottom level patio:



 

I have blogged before about the Neighbor's Dog who always comes over to the fence and looks at me when I come out of the house. He always wants a treat.  Here is the Neighbor's Dog this morning:


 

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