My list

I need to preface this with a quick comment; in many places on my list I have simply placed the authors name due to my belief that all of their particular works, or most of them anyways, should be read, or at the very least a taste of some part of them.
And it is definitely a work in progress.

The Scriptures(daily)
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Shakespeare
Erasmus
Plato's Republic
Jane Austin
The Bronte sisters
Winston Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples and History of WW2
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
History of the Church
Bruce R. McConkie
James E. Talmage
Orson Pratt's Masterful Discourses (family bias)
John Taylor's The Gospel Kingdom (another family bias)
The Teachings of Joseph Smith
John Stienbeck
Robert Frost
Emily Dickenson
Edgar Allen Poe
Homer's Iliad & Odessey
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
The Constitution (annually)
The Declaration of Independance(annually)
Farenheit 451
George Orwell's Animal Farm & 1984
Dostoyevsky
Robert Louis Stevenson
Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe
Ernest Hemingway
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Cervantes-Don Quiote
Alexander Dumas- The 3 Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo
Herman Melville- Moby Dick
Chaucer-The Canterbury Tales
William Faulkner
Dante-Divine Comedy
Hans Christian Anderson-Fairy Tales
Bulfinch's Mythology
The Brothers Grimm
Complete Tales of Washington Irving
Ayn Rand


This is only a partial list but I thought I had best post something in order get it up and moving.
I am sure that I will be amending this list continually for the time being.

A Widow's Appreciation

I was in the storm room at the Chico service center one morning the third or fourth day after the storm hit Northern California, when a supervisor that I had known in Fresno, who now worked up here, saw me in the yard and asked if I had a bucket truck. I assured him that I did, to which he replied, "bring it around front and meet me at the flag pole".


When I arrived out front I found that the flag that hung from the pole was in tatters and needed to be retired.
Kevin presented me with a new flag and asked that I remove the old one and raise the new one.
Noticing that I noticed that the new flag was a full size burial flag and not our typical 3x5 size, he asked me if I had heard about this flag. I said I had not, so he told me that woman had come into the service center that morning having noticed that our flag was in need of replacing. She wanted to express her appreciation for all that we had done and were doing to restore power to the area, so she had brought in the flag that had adorned her late husband's coffin and asked that we fly it.
I am always honored to be able to raise the colors at any time.
I was doubly honored on this day.

A Call For Lists In 2008

I have seen over the years lists compiled of the so called top 100 books or must reads of all time.
I have read a good many of those recommendations.
Now I am putting out a request to all who read this blog for your recommended list. (I know it's only family who read this)
What books are on your top 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, list of must read in this life time books.
I am making this request for purely selfish reasons; I want to expand my list of must reads.
So, tell me what's on yours and I will add mine on the next post.