A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau Review

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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau ReviewThe research and details in this book are incredible. Dates, names, addresses - this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the life of Marie Laveau, or just New Orleans history. I'm taking the book on my next trip to the Crescent city to visit some of the places Long mentions in her book. Very well documented and extremely readable.A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau OverviewLegendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Carolyn Morrow Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans.

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Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead Review

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Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead ReviewI was very excited when I ordered this book from Amazon as it promised a combination of things I love- an Irish pub, soccer, history, and a comeback against overwhelming odds. With the sort of reviews I had never seen on Amazon- 73 out of 74 rated it as 5 stars- I knew I had a 'can't miss" book in "Finn McCool's".
Sadly, I was very disappointed. I really tried hard to like this book but it never clicked. I found the story disjointed and meandering. I never got a real feel for the characters who frequented Finn's and so it was hard to get attached to them. You really need a scorecard to tell who is who. The author will briefly introduce a Finn's regular/team member and then 60 pages later bring up the person again by first name like he's an old friend of ours (the reader's). Actually, you have to go back and remind yourself just who this person is.
A few other irritating things:
1. Rea frequently identifies- correctly- what he sees as racism, particularly against African Americans, and then becomes Exh B by himself stereotyping Hispanics at several points in the book.
2. His exasperation as he describes trying to get sports bars in the U.S to put on Premier League soccer matches gets tiring. An American trying to do the same in England- prodding a bartender in a London pub to switch one of the TVs to a New Orleans Saints game when Manchester United is playing Chelsea- would be labelled an Ugly American.
3. His comments on the United States in general I found very sophomoric. I have no problem with a writer making observations on his adopted country- I just found that Rea was not very perceptive or insightful.
4. And, yes, I get it that his wife is always cold but do you have to beat us over the head with that little tidbit?
5. and, finally, we can handle the F word. You can spell it out instead of using the F_ _ k.
I am obviously am in the minority as 99% of the readers loved the book.
I did enjoy the first hand accounts by the survivors of Katrina.
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