El Color de Los Suenos (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

My work book club chose this book for October 2014 and I was eager to read it as soon as it was mentioned it was set in New Orleans. I was there for a conference a few years ago and when my husband and I started thinking of places to go after I retire New Orleans was top of my list. So I've been ...

from sophronia82

As an avid lover of all things Big Easy, this reviewer thought it would be difficult to sympathize with a protagonist whose fondest wish is to get "Out of the Easy." But life isn't all good food and better music for a seventeen-year-old girl living in the French Quarter in 1950 - especially if yo...

from Dianekeenoy

After reading Salt to the Sea, I purchased all of Ruta Sepetys' books and am working my way through them all. This book is set in New Orleans during 1950. Having grown up in the heart of New Orleans, with a terrible mother, Josie Moraine has been on her own since she was twelve. She has friends w...

from ewyatt

Josie works hard and dreams big, longing to go to school far away from New Orleans where she has grown up working as a cleaner and errand girl in the brothel where her mom has worked. Building her own support system due to her negligent and morally questionable parent, a chance encounter with a k...

from mamzel

One thing I love about books is when they take me to a new place, a new time, and introduce me to new characters. Another thing I love is when the character loves books. More points when the books help the character out of a bad position and help her attain a dream. This book wins in all these wa...