Louisiana Books

I thought this book would be about the houses in Cajun Country. I was wrong. This book was about being a cajun. It explained many of the 'cajun words' mean (Boucherri for example) and with pictures and easy to read text gives a very good overview of the culture. The pictures are pretty and compliment the text well.
This is a bit simple for adults familiar with the cajun culture. However, it is a great book for children and a lovely book for a 'coffee table' book.

Enjoy.

I am a cajun living in Michigan, and I collect Cajun cookbooks. This one is acurate and fun. Thanks, Kathy Rajala

I was very close to my Grandfather and this Tommy Joe Breaux brings back a lot of the memories I had forgotten about. I can tell why his 2 books are titled Cajun Humor from the Heart and Stories my Granpa tole me because they are not only funny but show his work is nothing about selling books etc they are about his GranPa. Once you read the introduction in Cajun Stories my GranPa tole me you will want to buy everything this author has to offer.

These are short stories about Cajuns who live in the Bayou Country of Louisiana. Some of these stories could be called fireside tales. During long winter evenings many tales were told and retold by the light of a blazing fire from a moss chinked fireplace.

The fireplaces are gone now and so are most of the old ones who knew these multi-faceted bits of Cajun humor and pathos. Many of the tales are based on fact. Some are fantasy. Altogether they represent the Louisiana Cajuns as they were in their pioneer past and as they are today.

These stories provide a look inside of the Cajun community; a glimpse into the heart of one of the largest and least understood ethnic groups in America.
--- from book's introduction

I found this book very interesting. I am of Cajun decent. My father is originally from Vacherie and my mother's family is originally from Edgard. This is the history I wish I would have been taught in highschool when learning about Louisiana history. I had no idea about the deportation in Nova Scotia. The only thing I knew about was that my family was from france. My mom happens to have a book on the history of the Gravois family and after I read this book I went back and looked thru it. It mentions the same places and people. It was just cool to know why I am the way I am and the kind of people I came from. Makes me proud to claim my Cajun heritage.

Funny stories along with the serious war accounts. Fascinating reading

The epigraph of this book is from Faulkner's The Wild Palms: "Between grief and nothing, I'll take grief." This pretty much sums up Wood's sensibility throughout these poems. This book, quite frankly, is one of the most beautiful books I own. Maudlin, but not overly so, this book's poems deal with grief and loss and longing. Particularly moving is the title poem, which deals with the death of the son of a friend. In the poem, Wood wonders, "Which is the greater sorrow / to feel you cannot live without him / or to find, after all, that you can?"

This is a devastating book.

The essays in The Slopes of Lebanon, as the title suggest, are mainly Oz's reflections on the unpopular war which Israel fought in Lebanon in the early eighties. Oz has many insightful, deeply penetrating things to say about this conflict, and on many levels. Oz's political writing, unlike his prose (which is more mystical and elusive), is always sharply defined and delimited. He can state simply but with a measure of complexity an issue and then rip it to shreds. This collection reveals how deeply ethical a writer Oz is; for him, the Zionist dream is far more than the settling of a people in a land, but a moral imperative. What kind of people do Israelis want to be? He asks this question again and again, and provides insightful, deeply humane answers.

This book is written through the eyes of a middle-class, ten year old girl during the Civil war. This book is wonderful and has many extroidinary ocurrances. This young girl is truly amazing and this story has given m a better view of what life was like for someone just like me during the Civil War. I would definantly recommend this book to anyone and everyone!

The history of the Ursuline nuns tells a very interesting story of how many of the Ursuline schools came about in the mid 1800's. Many points of history came up from this book evolves around the history of New Orleans. This is an excellent book of history of the great Ursuline nuns of New Orleans. If you enjoy history you shall enjoy this enchanted story of the brave Ursulines.