dlsdreamer@aol.com. New Orleans was sick and wounded, but no other city in the world had a celebration quite like this. Read Common Sense Media's Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story review, age rating, and parents guide. Nine Lives Books is a premier used book store located in San Antonio, Texas. This is the second book by the author that I’ve tried to read. We’d love your help. We specialize in used merchandise, but we have some new merchandise, too. Beyond my capacity to review while I'm still feeling the personal connections this book inspired; I feel as if I know these nine people, and I wish they knew me. Loved both Cat & Wilson as characters. Cat Dupree is a bounty hunter and when her friend Mimi goes missing she knows something is wrong. I liked this book and it’s many aspects of life in New Orleans. Lines like, "I'm your worst enemy," and "Evil doesn't die that easily," were definitely cringeworthy. The story was interesting and it was a quick, easy read. Psychological thrillers that will leave your head spinning. I enjoy getting lost in other people's worlds and words and non-fiction doesn't usually give me the same sense of "otherness". I'm hard pressed to name a more powerful non-fiction book I have ever read. Nine Lives is narrated from the points of view of some of New Orleans’s most charismatic characters, but underpinning the voices of the city is an extraordinary feat of reporting that allows Baum to bring this kaleidoscopic portrait to life with brilliant color and crystalline detail. We are all so quick to judge others, but reading this book has made me want to try to understan. And that is because of Dan Baum's reporting, his listening, and the access the many people of New Orleans allowed him. It's irritating as hell. Entertaining at least. Originally published in Playboy magazine (it was reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters), the story uses human cloning to explore perceptions of self and other. The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. Jasmine. Cat Dupree is a bounty hunter in the business because she thinks the work will eventually lead her to the man who murdered her father, and slit her throat when she was 13. I got maybe halfway, and that was skimming, and then I skipped to the end.It did seem like an interesting premise. Among the summaries and analysis available for Nine Lives, there are 2 Short Summaries and 2 Book Reviews. They say cats have nine lives. Characters. To know why they broke up or to see them get back together would involve us in a full-length love story of the sort we are familiar with. Full of everything NOLA this is an interesting read. DNF. 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