About two years ago while visiting my sweetheart who resides outside of Sacramento.  I was browsing around the local Borders Books retail store near where she lives. Being that I was in California at the time and trying to figure out the perfect book to pick up while I was there. I purchased the Book “Laid To Rest In California: A Guide To The Cemeteries & Grave Sites Of The Rich & Famous” by Patricia & Jonathan Brooks.  Being that I’m an avid grave hunter I knew I had to have this book after all I was in the great state of California where grave hunting is a very popular hobby and pass time.

The book retails for 15.95 and has 340 pages including 9 chapters covering cities in Southern California  such as Hollywood, Los Angeles, Glendale, Culver City, among others. And geographic areas in Northern California which include the Sacramento and San Francisco regions.

There is a full cast of luminaries listed throughout the book with brief biographical information listed for most of the personages along with grave site locations, and photos of various grave sites on most of the pages.

One of the neat things I thought was a nice complement to go along with the book were various boxes on the pages entitled “Lunch Break”, “Film Vault”,  and “House Call”. The Lunch Break boxes would include local eateries to stop in to have lunch while you were grave hunting with addresses and phone numbers mentioned for the establishments listed.  The Film Vault boxes listed a particular motion picture a celebrity took part in. These would be on the page with a particular biography. And finally the House Call boxes would list the phone numbers and addresses of local museums where someone in the book had artwork, or other forms of artifacts, and in some cases the real house they lived in.

All in all this book was very enjoyable to read. I liked the fact that there were cemeteries in Northern part of the state mentioned not just in the Southern part.

Josh