Dream: A Speech that Inspired a Nation

This book was all about one speech. And every page of it was amazing. It moved me so much. Around this time, I was going through a really strange 60's phase. The Kennedy's, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sandy Koufax, The Graduate, etc. It was really strange because I read this book, and then watched the movie, "Bobby". I was moved beyond words. I wasn't expecting there to be such influence from Dr Martin Luther King, jr-or baseball (GO DODGERS!) And there are two Graduate references!!! One of the two references broke me a little bit. I think I felt my knees buckle. Let me just say that The Sounds of Silence will forever hold a place in my heart because of the two movies it has been portrayed in. And the way Emilio Estevez added Kennedys voice over the song? His last speech. And the topic of the speech!!!!! I did not feel quite the same after I watched that scene. It changed me a little bit as a person-it was that powerful. I wrote a song about it in the end. And this book revolves around that period in my life. :) Amazing.

City of Fire

Haha, um. I pretty much read this book just for Los Angeles. I read it before I went back home, too, so I was really missing home because I hadn't been in two years.
And this book-not unlike myself-romanticizes Los Angeles. A character in the book mentioned a Los Angeles dawn. And how for one moment the world is perfect.
Listen, I know that Los Angeles has a pollution problem, but when you're there, underneath that sky-you can only marvel at its bright blue beauty. Example:



Just look at that sky! The book, overall...well, it was about a serial killer. So, it didn't bode well with me. But I don't regret reading it. It was about home. And I love home. <3