5 comments about The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping (Ballantine Reader's Circle).

1. As an actual, real Navajo tribal member and as a writer I'm pretty disgusted by this. A hoax it is and pretty pathetic. I'm always surprised at how little most Americans know about my people. It's pretty disheartening. Definitely read the LA Weekly article http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=12468&Itemid=47 for more on the Navahoax. If you want real Navajo writing read Lucy Tapahanso or for great writing read Leslie Marmon Silko (a Pueblo writer).



2. I read this book a few years ago as a publishers advance and it completely broke my heart. It ranks as one of my top 5 favorites. I really don't care if it's fiction or if Nasdijj identifies with the Navajo nation.
   
   What matters most, the quality of the writing or the veracity of it?
   
   For me a book doesn't have to be true to resonate.
   
   I also feel that the problem people are having with it is that he started out writing gay leather stuff and then tried his hand at writing about the love he supposedly had for a child.



3. While it appears that memoirs that have been fabricated are now coming out of the woodwork, the knee jerk reaction that people have towards Million Little Pieces isn't really fair to apply to this book.
   
   First of all, when I was working in a bookstore when this book came out, there wasn't nearly the fanfare that there was for Million Little Pieces, even before Oprah started pushing it. A lot more people are now willing to reject this book before even taking a look inside, and that's a shame.
   
   Secondly, the book reads more like a novel than MLP did. I really wasn't expecting the complete truth the further I got in. While I was a little disappointed upon finding out the actual author, and while I'm sure that any actual Navajo would have every right to be pissed off, it didn't affect the telling of the story to me. It doesn't need to have happened to be worth reading.
   
   Last of all, Boy and the Dog is a better book. MLP was written by a self-aggrandizing blowhard, and it shows in the writing. While Nasdijj (I don't remember his real name) may have been just as self serving in the long run, his books aren't nearly as juvenile.



4. Nasdijj is NOT NAVAJO (Dine). He is a White guy from Michigan. He lied about being "Dine". His real name is Tim Barrus. As a member of the Dine Nation I am Truly disgusted with this fraud.



5. This was one of my favorite books until I found out that the author made it up, and passed it off as memoir.

1 comments about Latinos in Waukesha (WI) (Images of America).

1. Any book with three photos of my grandpa Gonzalez and one of my mom has got to receive 5 stars!
   
   Latinos in Waukesha is a fantastic chronicle of the Hispanic influence in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the city where yours truly grew up and inherited 25% Mexican blood from my mother, she was half, I'm a quarter.
   
   The book consists primarily of old-school pics that shed a lot of information on Waukesha and the historical role Latinos played in it, enlightening me on some things I never knew about Waukesha and its large industrious Mexican population. If you're in any way connected to the area you might want to check out this excellent work for a fabulous and enthralling crash course in local history.
   
   The city of Waukesha is a 15 minute drive west of Milwaukee. It's a city of about 75,000 which for all intents and purposes has held its own relative identity and hasn't become a bland suburb. The rest of surrounding Waukesha County is a different matter.

1 comments about Joan Baez (Hispanics of Achievement).

1. This book, although informational, is largely biased by the writers. In my opinion it is too flowery to be presented as a reference source.

No comments about Old Spain in Our Southwest (Southwest Heritage Series).

1 comments about The Hispanic 100: A Ranking of the Latino Men and Women Who Have Most Influenced American Thoughtand Culture.

1. THIS IS THE BOOK I'D BEEN LOOKING FOR TO LEARN ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LATINOS IN EVERY AREA OF ENDEAVOR--MUSIC, SPORTS, SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE...LATINOS HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH TO OUR COUNTRY AND THESE BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES REALLY GIVES THEM THE PRIDE OF PLACE THEY DESERVE! IT'S A GREAT READ FOR EVERYONE, FROM STUDENTS TO CULTURE VULTURES WHO WANT TO REALLY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE TOPICS THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. IF YOU HAVE LATINO FRIENDS, THIS BOOK IS A MUST. IF YOU ARE LATINO, THIS BOOK IS A MUST. IF YOU LIVE IN THE WORLD, THIS BOOK IS A MUST!

No comments about Ellen Ochoa: First Latina Astronaut (Famous Latinos).

No comments about Memories of a Hyphenated Man.

No comments about Love And Riot: Oscar Zeta Acosta And The Great Mexican American Revolt.

No comments about Hispanic American Profiles.

1 comments about House with the Blue Bed.

1. Arteaga's anecdotes are vivid; Each packed with wit, sarcasm and intelligent thought. I highly recommend this book as one of my all-time favorites.