5
star review of The Big Crazy by Julie Smith
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and Adam weather the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Smith incorporated actual events played out by fictional people. The
storm might have stopped the usual way of life in the big easy, but
it didn't stop crime. Families were separated like the ones in the
story, and the hospitals overflowed at the same time as they lost
power and we're flooded. Built in tension. This was an intense and
terrific read.
4-star
review of Banged-Up Heart by Shirley Melis
An
emotional memoir is mainly about the short marriage of the author to
her second husband and her coming to grips with his death. The book
is well-written in a literary style. Mrs. Melis makes all the people
come to life with details many memoirists and biographers fail to do.
Two years after the death of her first husband, she met the
love-of-her-life, John. An engineer, music-lover, photographer, etc.,
he died too young of an unexpected form of cancer. It took time but
she realized she could live on.
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