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3 reviews
James D. Houston

Knopf, 2007

powerful character study
In 1980s Northern California radio host Sheridan "Dan" Brody has always wondered about his roots, but did nothing to learn more about the identity of his father. However, when he sees his birth certificate, it includes the name of his sire. He wants to know more about his paternal side. Not long afterward, Rosa Waddell calls Dan while he is on the air to inform him she is his grandmother. ...

The Men in My Life: And Other More or Less True Recollections of Kinship

2 reviews
James D. Houston

Creative Arts Book Co, 1987

Great coming of age stories
This is a great book about the men who influenced the life of the author. Most of these men were found in typically male settings - fraternity houses, military, sports. All of them had a deep influence on the author as he recounts the often humorous and sometimes affecting stories of his life. The final chapter, from which the name of the book derives, is a look at the "older generation" from ...

The Last Paradise (Literature of the American West Series, Vol 2)

2 reviews
James D. Houston

University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

Paradigm Regained
Before Michener, Hawai'i was an open-season setting for every visitor who made an occupation of putting pen to paper. Since the local literary renaissance, built in part on the objections of people who live in Hawai'i to Michener's failure to "get it right," few outsiders have stood up to challenge the likes of Darrell Lum, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and -- most recently -- Chris McKinney. The Last ...

The Act of Bible Reading: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Biblical Interpretation

1 review
Gordon D. Fee, Craig M. Gay, ...

InterVarsity Press, 1996

A Great Book Demands Great Readers
Amongst numerous hermeneutics Books in stores, this one is quite different from others. Using the multidisciplinary approach, it starts with the historical perspective and canonical approach in the first two chapters. Each chapter also spends a good length for a detail and scholarly illustration of both approaches. The subsequent chapter discusses the theological perspective of Bible reading. ...

Hawaiian Son

1 review
James D. Houston

Hawaiian Legacy, 2004

Brought back great childhood memories from my native Hawaii
A fascinating read into the creative processes used by Hawaiian music legend Eddie Kamae throughout his career. Sons of Hawaii fans will appreciate Mr. Kamae's genuine and honest accounts of his life-changing journey during the renaissance period of Hawaiian music and culture. It awakened many fond childhood memories of the music of my childhood growing up in Hawaii in the 1970s. Reading accounts ...

Farewell to Manzanar with Connections

1 review
Jeanne D. Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1998

Review of Farewell to Manzanar
I enjoyed reading this book. This book went through and discussed life for a Japanese Americans during World War 11. I find it hard to believe that the Americans were over in Europe fighting to help the Europeans and save the Jews within the concentration camps yet the Americans were doing the same thing to there own people. This book goes through and talks about how the Japanese Internment ...

Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire (California Legacy Book)

2 reviews
Bayard Taylor

Heyday Books, 2000

superb and engaging
I stumbled across this book by accident one day and it has turned out to be my find of 2001 -- one of the most enjoyable books I have read in ages. Taylor, a youthful New York journalist and poet, was sent out to California to file back dispatches on this wild, gold-filled, lush place in the seminal gold rush year of 1849, when California was a sprawling region, and not yet a state. And what a ...

Snow Mountain Passage

29 reviews
James D. Houston, 2001

One of the finest books ever written about the West
This is simply an awesome display of storytelling, combining historical "fiction" with non-fiction (the latter derived from the actual notes and writings of a real survivor of the incident), and illustrating the incredible power of James D. Houston's mind and writing talent! If you want to actually imagine and feel and understand what it was like, to cross the western half of this country in ...

Where Light takes its Color From the Sea

1 review
James D. Houston

Heyday Books, 2008

California, a brief introduction
Santa Cruz writer James D. Houston has collected a wonderful set of essays, short stories, vignettes and reflections about the Golden State in this just-released volume from Heyday Books in Berkeley. Known for his recent historical fiction about the Donner Party (Snow Mountain Passage) and the cross-cultural currents between California and Hawaii (Bird of Another Heaven), "Where the Light Takes ...

In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey

2 reviews
James D. Houston

Mercury House, 1997

Wonderful--Speaks to the future of our humanity!
This is kind of a joyful, thoughtful, updated FAREWELL TO MANZANAR, a modern journey around the Pacific Basin to see the context of our oneness as a people, the future of how we will coexist as Americans and Asians and Amerasians. Examines in a playful way the similarities we share as peoples, and the lessons we learn from each other about our cultures--our histories, and our shared humanity. ...

Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West

1 review
James D. Houston

Heyday Books, 1999

Nice mix of perspectives, thoughts, lives
I bought this book at a bookstore in Santa Clara, California, on my way home to the east coast, because it just looked interesting. It turned out to be a great purchase. The perspectives were beautifully mixed. Nice blend of perspectives of those who came to the west under good circumstances and bad circumstances, for whatever opportunity awaited, from other countries or remote parts of this ...

The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945

1 review

University of California Press, 2000

California, End of the earth
I'm taking a class from one of the guys who compiled the book, and for starters let me say twenty bucks is a damn good deal for a textbook. This one is meaty too. Very interesting prefaces for each selection of writing, as well as essays about each period. A must for anyone curious about Mythic California and the writers who, well, wrote about it. Great stuff by Twain and other biggies. My ...

Surfing: A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport

2 reviews
Ben R. Finney, James D. Houston

Pomegranate Communications, 1996

Good
This is a great book with lots of awesome pictures, this book is great, I really recommend it!

Farewell to Manzanar

226 reviews
James D. Houston

Bantam Books, 1974

Great book
The book was very well written and you could actually put yourself in some of the incidents that happened through her life. It is very hard to belief that this discrimination happened in our country less that 75 years ago. Great read.

Continental Drift

2 reviews
James D. Houston

Alfred A. Knopf, 1978

In the California Canon
James D. Houston's Continental Drift chronicles the Doyle family's reactions to a series of brutal murders that suspiciously coincides with the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. Unlike a typical mystery novel, Continental Drift concentrates on the physical and psychological landscapes of the murders--the ranching community of Monterey, California--instead of the murders ...

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