50bookchallenge, 15000pages
Book #25 -- Phyllis Montana-Leblanc, Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina, 223 pages.
Phyllis Montana-Leblanc was one of the main voices in Spike Lee's documentary "When The Levees Broke". In this book, she gives her voice free reign, telling her whole story in conversational and deeply personal language. Phyllis writes as she speaks, and this may make it a difficult read for some, with its profuse profanity, strongly colloquial phrasing, and random, stream-of-consciousness style. Montana-Leblanc paints an intimate portrait of a life nearly destroyed by the hurricane and its aftermath, interspersed with opinionated diatribes on politics, racism, corporate culture, morality, and numerous other subjects. This is not a comfortable read in any sense, but it is starkly real.
Progress toward goals: 61/365 = 16.7%
Books: 25/100 = 25.0%
Pages: 6474/30000 = 21.6%
2009 Book List
cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven
Phyllis Montana-Leblanc was one of the main voices in Spike Lee's documentary "When The Levees Broke". In this book, she gives her voice free reign, telling her whole story in conversational and deeply personal language. Phyllis writes as she speaks, and this may make it a difficult read for some, with its profuse profanity, strongly colloquial phrasing, and random, stream-of-consciousness style. Montana-Leblanc paints an intimate portrait of a life nearly destroyed by the hurricane and its aftermath, interspersed with opinionated diatribes on politics, racism, corporate culture, morality, and numerous other subjects. This is not a comfortable read in any sense, but it is starkly real.
Progress toward goals: 61/365 = 16.7%
Books: 25/100 = 25.0%
Pages: 6474/30000 = 21.6%
2009 Book List
cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven