Book Challenge Update 2006

[wellah]

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:

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[crankycatlady]

I'm looking forward to reading The Great Deluge

[wellah]

I definitely recommend it to everyone for way more insight into what happened than was reported in the mainstream media. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Advance warning, I was almost brought to tears a few times by the personal stories in it.

[gutterboylive]

There were so many basic errors of fact in there that it called everything that Brinkley wrote into question. Here's an email I wrote to Ilene when she asked about the book:

Brinkley - Gawd. After I finished his book, I wrote to the books editor at the Times-Picayune. Brinkley's strength is finding the personal story in the broad picture, and some of his tales of personal survival in that book were spellbinding. I heard him speak once, at the opening of a Napoleon exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and came away jealous of the students in his classes. He's just an extraordinary storyteller

[wellah]

Ooooh, well I certainly didn't know those details. Guess I'll take it with a heaping helping of salt when I finish reading it!