Book Challenge Update 2006
68. Shadows in the Darkness - Elaine Cunningham - 304 pages. Read this one in one day. It was the first in the Changeling Detective Series, but not named that, because the Detective Agency isn't named until the last few pages. Loved it, and I really hope she writes more in this series, and/or my library gets more of them in.
69. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast - Douglas Brinkley - 637 pages (read 436 pages so far before I had to turn it back in to the library as it was on hold for someone else. I'll finish it when I get a copy back in my hands). Very powerful book even though it is a bit disjointed in the way it tells the stories of officials and survivors of the storm. Includes photos, and detailed retellings of what people went through and how abysmal the response of the federal government was throughout. Dozens of cities and other agencies were refused in their attempts to help and basically it was a huge clusterfuck. Also very timely because of the recent indictments of Doctors and Nurses who saved people's lives in the news lately.
69 / 100 books read and 26,241 / 50,000 pages read
69. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast - Douglas Brinkley - 637 pages (read 436 pages so far before I had to turn it back in to the library as it was on hold for someone else. I'll finish it when I get a copy back in my hands). Very powerful book even though it is a bit disjointed in the way it tells the stories of officials and survivors of the storm. Includes photos, and detailed retellings of what people went through and how abysmal the response of the federal government was throughout. Dozens of cities and other agencies were refused in their attempts to help and basically it was a huge clusterfuck. Also very timely because of the recent indictments of Doctors and Nurses who saved people's lives in the news lately.
69 / 100 books read and 26,241 / 50,000 pages read