Very nice story, excellent characters
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MBybee reviewed Final Lap by Jessica Alter
MBybee finished reading A Very Large Array by Melinda Snodgrass
MBybee rated A Very Large Array: 4 stars
Fantastic and comprehensive
5 stars
Absolutely incredible collection of so many pieces of art and history. Loads of great stuff from the WPA.
MBybee reviewed Creator of the Santa Fe style by Carl D. Sheppard
Some nice art, not sure I agree with the point
2 stars
The Rapp "style" seems to be almost entirely derivative of a whole mish-mash of styles and pretty awful, actually, and I really don't see how there's any argument in here that he created what the book terms the Santa Fe style. According to Santa Fe themselves, Pueblo Revival style was largely created by a committee that commissioned many architects, of which Rapp was merely one (and really... not one of the better ones, based on surviving examples).
MBybee rated Canyon gardens: 2 stars
MBybee finished reading Canyon gardens by Baker H. Morrow
This wasn't quite what I expected. I was expecting a book about gardening in the northen New Mexico region, informed by the native traditions such as acequias and mixed planting square frame gardens.
What it actually contains is a series of anthropologists, paleoethnobiologists, botanists, and the like arguing about the movements and culture of the Tewas. This would be interesting in and of itself if any point had been made to present the arguments that they are arguing against.