Thought I would provide brief summaries of two recently completed books.

Rabbit Boss by Thomas Sanchez is a fictional account of the experience of Native Americans (Washo of the Lake Tahoe area in N. California) from the time of first contact with Europeans until their near annihilation literally and culturally over a period of about 100 years. In this second reading of the novel after almost 30 years I still found it powerful and entertaining. I will say that this time around I did notice much more how much it was flavored by the whole hippie/counter culture movement of the late 1960s to early 1970s, influences of the drug culture and veneration of Native American culture, much more noticeable than I did on the first read. Sanchez wrote the book in the early 1970s.

Bleak House is the July selection for the MobileRead Literary Book Club so I won't say much about it. Only that for those who have just tried Dickens once, especially if it was Tale of Two Cities or Great Expectations, and were turned off Dickens by that reconsider. I would rate Bleak House as my second favorite serious novel by Dickens, with David Copperfield still being number one with me. The Pickwick Papers being my favorite light/comic novel.