Book Review: "The Milagro Beanfield War" (1974)
First of all, welcome to my blog! Starting a blog - a place to share my thoughts, opinions, and ideas - is something that has been swimming around in my head for a while now, and I finally decided to do it, in part so that I would have someplace to share this review. One of my News Year's resolutions for 2026 was to read twenty books, and actually, The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols is book #20. Before this year, I don't know that I had read a novel since college, and overall, I was reading far fewer than twenty books per year. Reading more is part of a larger effort I am undertaking to consume less digital entertainment and overall practice digital minimalism, something I will write more about in future blog posts. On to the review. The Milagro Beanfield War is set in 1970s northern New Mexico and follows the residents of the impoverished, rural farming community Milagro as Joe Mondragon takes a stand against wealthy landowner Ladd Devine and his company's plan...