As an apology for missing last week, I start with a gift for Jane!
Now on to the books!
One of the many types of books that I enjoy is books about my hometown. I like the non-fiction books out there, but I really enjoy fiction that takes place in Los Alamos. Admittedly, I have not found that much fiction taking place in Los Alamos, but what I have read I love. It does not even have to be all that good and I think I would still love it.
The first novel I read that took place in LA is Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon. It is a murder mystery taking place during the Manhattan Project. It has been quite a while since I read it but it was extremely well written. (I also enjoyed his The Good German, which was turned into a movie as well.)
The last novel I read about Los Alamos was actually more of a children's book. The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages. It was a fantastic, though quick, read. The story of a young girl who moves to LA with her father, a chemist I believe, and how she adapts to life in LA and then life without her father when he dies (ooops, I guess that is a spoiler, isn't it?). It is really enjoyable and seemed fairly well researched. She has a sequel out called White Sands, Red Menace, in which Dewey Kerrigan moves to Alamogordo after the war ends with the family that takes her in.
So yesterday, when I saw a book entitled Lost Almost at a friends house, I just knew it was for me. It had to be about Los Alamos! (As only a true Los Alamosian would be able to judge just from the title!) It strays from the norm for LA fiction in that it does not take place during WWII. It takes place in 2000 during the throes of the Cerro Grande fire which ravaged the Jemez Mountains and left many in LA homeless. I have only read 5 pages, but plan on enjoying it immensely!
So, do you know of any other books taking place in Los Alamos? (I shall save the non-fiction ones for another day, another post) Or do you also enjoy books about your hometown? If so, what town and what books? I love book suggestions!
Happy reading all! ;-)
Yay! A gift for me which is most definitely the picture of Feynman! I love it. And we all miss. But I must read some of the books about LA as I love it too but mostly because of Feynman.
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