Farming As I Have Known It: 60 Years in Central Appalachia, by S. Thomas Bond, copyright 2007; first edition.

This book, on farming and farm life, was written by my father over 10 years in his spare time, and is an absolutely fascinating look at farming from the era of my great-grandparents and grandparents through to the present day.

Although I grew up on a working farm and spent most of my time before I graduated from college working on it, I was never as deeply involved with farming as my father, something I now regret deeply. This book gives a very good idea of the determination, hard work and deep thought required to build and keep a family farm in West Virginia.

Dad had copies of this printed and some of them were Christmas presents for us for 2008.

The book is available on the web.

The Mint, by T. E. Lawrence, aka John Hume Ross, aka T. E. Shaw; copyright 1935, 1955 by Doubleday & Company, Inc; first published in Norton Library 1963 by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc; ISBN: 978-0-393-00196-9.

Interesting and quite different than Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Watchmen, by written by Alan Moore, illustrated and lettered by Dave Gibbons, coloured by John Higgins; copyright © 1986, 1987 DC Comics, Inc.; Book Club edition; no ISBN listed. Originally published in twelve issues in magazine form in 1986 & 1987.

Knowing that there was a Watchman movie in the works, I decided to re-read the comic. I enjoyed it again.

The Outlaw Demon Wails, by Kim Harrison, copyright © 2008; EOS/HarperCollinsPublishers [1]; December 2008; 1st printing; ISBN 978-0-06-114982-5.

Another enjoyable entry in Harrison's Books of the Hollows series.

Bone, by Jeff Smith, copyright © 2004; Cartoon Books, 11th printing; ISBN-10 1-888963-14-X, ISBN-13 978-1-888963-14-X.

A well told fantasy story, both serious and humorous, with excellent art and interesting characters, Bone starts small and builds up to mythic. Well worth reading.