Book Reports!

I like to read books and write about them.  Here are some book reviews I've written.  Actually, some of them are more like "book reports" (Reading Rainbow style!) and some just have excerpts from the book that I like.  Basically these are books I want other people to read because they are mind blowing.  Anyway, click on the title of the book for a link to my review/report...

Castle Waiting by Linda Medley

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan.

Life of Pi

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California by Daniel Martinez Hosang

Factories in the Field: a History of Migratory Farm Labor in California by Carey McWilliams

The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

The Big Orange: The History of Republican Politics in Orange County 1900-1950 by Lois Lundberg

Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California by Dewar Macleod

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s by Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodriguez

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads by Dee Brown