New Orleans

An interesting, new (to me) paranormal series

Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

April 4, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Jane Yellowrock is, as far as she’s aware, the very last of her kind. She’s a skinwalker of Cherokee descent and has never encountered anyone with the same powers as her. She makes a living hunting vampires, but finds herself in the unusual position of working for the vampire council in New Orleans, to track down a rogue vampire. Jane has ten days to locate the creature if she wants to get the exclusive bounty, but there are other individuals in the city who seem to be on the same mission. As her hunt intensifies, it seems as […]

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Growing up in a brothel in New Orleans

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

October 19, 2018 by Sophia Leave a Comment

Out of the Easy (2013) by Ruta Sepetys was chosen as our next book for my book club. I’d never heard anything about it, but the many positive reviews were promising. Out of the Easy is a young-adult, coming-of-age story of Josie Moraine, a 17-year-old girl living in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the 1950’s. Josie is smart and good-hearted. She has dreams of getting out of New Orleans, but she has a lot of obstacles. Josie lives by herself, above a bookstore, where she has been living and working since she was a little girl. Her mother is a prostitute […]

10/19/2018 | Post by Sophia

Girl vampire meets dangerous demon-fairy sex assassin

Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole

February 4, 2018 by teresaelectro 3 Comments

I had planned on reading all the Immortals After Dark books by Kresley Cole in order. But when I noticed Sweet Ruin was a standalone book, I skipped ahead to Book 16. This romantic tale didn’t start with a battle or instant attraction. Instead, we meet our heroine, Josephine (Jo for short), a homeless teen taking care of her baby brother, Thaddeus, in Texas. They hide out in the local public library during the day living off the kindness of the librarian. The foster system failed them. One home assignment ended with Jo burning down the house out of revenge for the […]

2/4/2018 | Post by teresaelectro

What Do You Mean We Don’t Agree On How To Run Triage?

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

April 8, 2016 by faintingviolet 5 Comments

I have an interest in what happens in worst case scenarios. I find disaster documentaries fascinating. I don’t know what that says about me, but it does mean that books like Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital are up my alley. Following a glowing review from Lollygagger way back in Cannonball Read 6, I added Sheri Fink’s book to my to read list, and then kept pushing it farther down. Because even though this is an area of non-fiction that interests me, you have to be in a certain mood to read about this much […]

4/8/2016 | Post by faintingviolet

Merely Respectable

A Confederacy of Dunces by John K. Toole

January 26, 2015 by Ale 2 Comments

The height of literary comedy? I don’t know. A Confederacy of Dunces follows the day-to-day lives of a cast of characters that all ultimately end up at the same place at the same time due to the ridiculous antics and poor choices of the main character, Ignatius. Ignatius is a 30 year old hyper educated, egotistical and out-of-touch bum living on the good will of his retired mother in New Orleans in the early ‘60s. After his incessant back seat driving gets her into an accident with the side of a building, she forces Ignatius to go out and get […]

1/26/2015 | Post by Ale

Mommy Wars, circa 1899

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

September 10, 2014 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This classic of American Literature is the tragic story of Edna Pontellier as she awakens to the reality of her own desires and the limits her world places upon them. Like Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, this novel shows the unfairness of restrictions that men and society at large placed on women, and women’s growing realization of and frustration with them. Chopin wrote it in 1899, when the Victorian ideal […]

9/10/2014 | Post by ElCicco

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