I was just starting to get on board with this book when I had to quit because of the attempted murder of Midori. I'm sure this sounds like I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. The character grabs Midori's foot, drags her down to the deep part of the pool and even that won't get her expelled from this camp...
Neruda's heart resonates with strange old rhythms as he liberates his imagination from traditional expressions of devotion and takes it to undiscovered dimensions in paying homage to the act called "love". It is not merely emotion that he speaks of but the act, an act which is divine and sublime in ...
True to the title, this book is definitely Cuban and dreamy. The story follows three generations of Cuban women, jumping forward and backward in time, hopping back and forth between Cuba and New York, and switching between a variety of narrative styles (i.e. third person, first person, and epistola...
Dreams of Significant Girls manages to touch on all the "issues" of issue books - depression, divorce, sexual assault, slut-shaming, statutory rape, absent parents, suicide, abortion, homosexuality, revolution, war, genocide, you name it! - without actually saying much about any of those experiences...
Overall, this was a very satisfying read. The story involves a Cuban family, who have some members living as immigrants in the 'States and others remaining in Cuba, and, to a lesser extent, people who are somehow related to the family. The book is narrated by each of the characters involved, so the ...
This book was about three seemingly mediocre people, but with interesting problems and dilemmas,and how each of their lives intersected, all by coincidence-A Cuban boy with an apparent gift for mathematics, a magician father, and the legacy of his deceased mother (who was killed during a performance...
La segunda es la vencida y me he decidido a escribir una pequeña reseña sobre estos poemas tan lindos.Me encantan los poemas si!Un buen dia decidí leer algo y como era una persona que pensaba LOS POEMAS SON CURSISISISIMOS psun dia Neruda estaba ahi y dije ¿porqué no? así que, si! me gustan los poema...
I had started this, but had been forced to put it aside before reading all of it. Now I have gone back to it. I love the lines. I enjoy the mixture of fact and fiction. The fictional aspect allows the author to play with the details, descriptions and words. The author is a poet with her words. Origi...
I thought this book was a very fun summer read and it was quick. It had amazing character development and some great moments. The book follows three girls' journey through the teenage years as they work to find themselves. Each of the girls are completely different from one another but soon they bec...
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