NonFiction
Garfield Minus Garfield by Jim Davis. Dan Walsh erased Garfield from the Garfield comic strips and improved the stories immeasurably.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America by Thomas L. Friedman.
Homeowner's Guide to Managing a Renovation: tough-as-nails tactics for getting the most from your money by Susan E. Solakian. "Every stage of planning and executing a job...walks you through each step of a hypothetical renovation."
George Tooker by George Tooker. Painter who has "over the past sixty years...continued to create radiantly illuminated yet disquieting images. Imbued with moral, spiritual, and sensual power."
Angling the World: ten spectacular adventures in fly fishing by Roy Tanami. Fly fishing travels to Brazil, Russia, New Zealand and elsewhere with great photographs.
Pieces of my Heart by Robert J. Wagner. Actor's autobiography. Wagner always wanted to be an actor and seeing Hollywood stars play the golf course near his childhood Bel Air home only encouraged him. His work in the studio system, his marriage-divorce-marriage-widowerhood with Natalie Wood, and his television work.
Why We Suck: a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid by Denis Leary. This was on the bestseller list so I bought it. "Part memoir, part self-help tome"
Eating the Sun: how plants power the planet by Oliver Morton. This is supposed to a fascinating, and actually interesting, look at how plants work and the mystery of photosynthesis.
The Customer is Always Wrong by Jeff Martin. "A tragicomic and all-too-revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell the tale."
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. A look at the War on Terror.
Multiple Bles8ings: surviving to thriving with twins and sextuplets by Jon and kate Gosselin and Beth Carson. That is a lot of kids.
Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron. Ugh.
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