Ohhh, I love themed videos like this! All the ones about the environment and wildfires sound interesting to me so I'll need to check which ones my library has. I saw the Palo Alto one in the new books section the other day and added it to my list to pick up. Thanks for all the recs!
Thank you so much for this! As a native Angeleno, I'm always looking for books about California! I also recommend Wild by Cheryl Strayed, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, and Junipero Sera by Steven Hackel. ♥🌴🌅
Highly recommend McTeague by Frank Norris, written c. 1900. Set in San Francisco, it offers a vivid and memorable portrait of the city at that time. Part of the novel also takes place in Death Valley.
The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. I highly recommend it. I want to read The Riders Come Out at Night and Bad City. I have heard great things. I also want to read one of the Paradise Fire books on your list.
Gosh I hope you like both of those!! Daniel James Brown is so great. I'd start with Boys in the Boat! It is so well loved (and I think getting adapted into a movie by the end of the year??)
The Dreamt Land sounds very interesting. Here are two books that include a lot about California in the history of U.S. western water management. Colossus: Hoover Dam and the making of the American century by Michael A. Hiltzik. And Cadillac Desert by some other guy. These are thick books, so carrying them home from the library or book store is good exercise.
Okay I really want to read Cadillac Desert! That and Desert Solitare (Edward Abbey) seem to be classics in the water-in-the-west theme and have been on my TBR for a long time. I'm going to go make holds for them now! Maybe these theme can be it's own video! I'm also going to make a hold for Colossus. I didn't think I was into dams but I read The Emerald Mile (Kevin Fedarko) last year and it was the best book I read in 2023. It's about river rafting the Colorado River, but spends a lot of time on the Glen Canyon Dam as well, and those sections were so interesting! Engineering + history is always a good combo! Thanks for the recs!!
There is a lot about the legal wrangling between counties and states that preceded construction of dams, reservoirs, and diversionary aqueducts. And of course, Mexico got the short end of the stick.
This is slightly off topic. But I've always been interested in how popular novels are translated into movies. One of your books listed, The Man in the High Castle by Phillip Dick is one. It was done as a series by Amazon Prime. I've promised myself to read the book before I start the series.
I don't know about you, but I like to consume stories in that order too! If I watch an adaptation before reading the book, I almost never read the book... but if I read the book first, I'll watch the adaptation! I recently did that with The Perfect Storm (book + movie). And now I want to try Wool (the Apple TV adaptation is called Silo; it just came out)!
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A Fire Story was one of the first graphic novels I picked up as well and absolutely loved it!
I think I remember you reviewing it for Nonfiction November last year!!
Ohhh, I love themed videos like this! All the ones about the environment and wildfires sound interesting to me so I'll need to check which ones my library has. I saw the Palo Alto one in the new books section the other day and added it to my list to pick up. Thanks for all the recs!
Thanks for watching!! 😊 I'm a big fan of thematic videos too!
Your recommendations are spot on!! The King of California and The Lettuce Wars are two others.
I had never heard of these! The King of California looks like it could be really good!
How much of these hills is gold is brilliant, would highly recommend!
oooo thanks for letting me know!!
Thank you so much for this! As a native Angeleno, I'm always looking for books about California! I also recommend Wild by Cheryl Strayed, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, and Junipero Sera by Steven Hackel. ♥🌴🌅
Oooo I've heard of the first but haven't heard of the other ones. White Oleander in particular looks really interesting! I shall add to my TBR!
Great pick! White Oleander is the best out of that bunch! It's a stunning novel set in and around Los Angeles. Enjoy!@@audreyapproved
Highly recommend McTeague by Frank Norris, written c. 1900. Set in San Francisco, it offers a vivid and memorable portrait of the city at that time. Part of the novel also takes place in Death Valley.
oooo never heard of it. thanks for the rec!!
The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. I highly recommend it. I want to read The Riders Come Out at Night and Bad City. I have heard great things. I also want to read one of the Paradise Fire books on your list.
Oooo good to know re: Joy Luck Club!!
I added the Donner party one. I love survival books. I also have The Boys in the boat by that same author but haven't read it yet.
Gosh I hope you like both of those!! Daniel James Brown is so great. I'd start with Boys in the Boat! It is so well loved (and I think getting adapted into a movie by the end of the year??)
The Dreamt Land sounds very interesting. Here are two books that include a lot about California in the history of U.S. western water management. Colossus: Hoover Dam and the making of the American century by Michael A. Hiltzik. And Cadillac Desert by some other guy. These are thick books, so carrying them home from the library or book store is good exercise.
Okay I really want to read Cadillac Desert! That and Desert Solitare (Edward Abbey) seem to be classics in the water-in-the-west theme and have been on my TBR for a long time. I'm going to go make holds for them now! Maybe these theme can be it's own video!
I'm also going to make a hold for Colossus. I didn't think I was into dams but I read The Emerald Mile (Kevin Fedarko) last year and it was the best book I read in 2023. It's about river rafting the Colorado River, but spends a lot of time on the Glen Canyon Dam as well, and those sections were so interesting! Engineering + history is always a good combo! Thanks for the recs!!
There is a lot about the legal wrangling between counties and states that preceded construction of dams, reservoirs, and diversionary aqueducts. And of course, Mexico got the short end of the stick.
This is slightly off topic. But I've always been interested in how popular novels are translated into movies. One of your books listed, The Man in the High Castle by Phillip Dick is one. It was done as a series by Amazon Prime. I've promised myself to read the book before I start the series.
I don't know about you, but I like to consume stories in that order too! If I watch an adaptation before reading the book, I almost never read the book... but if I read the book first, I'll watch the adaptation! I recently did that with The Perfect Storm (book + movie). And now I want to try Wool (the Apple TV adaptation is called Silo; it just came out)!