Thought for the day

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who as the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt]

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Books I have read in the past couple of weeks

Fly Boys - James Bradley
Bradley is the author of Flags of Our Fathers which he wrote after learning his father was one of the original erectors of the flag on Iwo Jima.











The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Laarson.  This is an entertaining novel that took a bit to get into but was well worth it.













The Professional - Robert Parker.  Another entertaining novel featuring Spenser, the PI from Boston.  This series was made into a series on TV a while back starring Robert Urich.  This was my airplane book on the flight back from San Francisco.










The Colonel - Patrick A. Davis.  Another novel in the thriller genre.  No redeeming moral qualities, just idle entertainment.

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