A great book about a mixed race (African-Asian) Cuban girl. Like Engle's other historical fiction I've read, this one leaves me curious to learn more about the history behind the story.
I preferred Engle's The Lightning Dreamer to Tropical Secrets. The writing and the story of The Lightning Dreamer was just more interesting to me. But Tropical Secrets was still good (I read it in one sitting). It covered a bit of history I knew nothing about (Jewish refugees in Cuba). I don't know ...
This book is free-verse novel based on Cuba’s painful struggle for independence from Spain and the life Rosario Castellanos Castellanos, known as Rosa la Bayamesa. This compelling piece of narrative prose is told from different characters' point of view; mainly Rosa, a freed slave who heals and hid...
The nose knows.
The Firefly Letters is a slim volume of historical semi-fiction that uses the known bones of Fredrika Bremer's stay in Cuba in the 1850s to tell a mostly-imagined story about Bremer and two young women. I'm glad it exists -- I wouldn't have heard of Bremer otherwise -- but it seemed insubstantial. T...
"Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories" edited by Ann M. Martin is a compilation of stories that are all, obviously, about dogs. The forward, appropriately, is by Martin's dog, Sadie.Sadie states, "Between the covers of this book you'll read about funny dogs, adventurous dogs, brave dogs, smart dogs...
A beautiful book. The writing is simple yet incredibly full of emotion and thought. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys poetry. Won through GoodReads First Reads.
Interesting historical fiction written in verse.
I was looking forward to this one...but I wasn't moved by it and I'm still trying to figure out why. Not enough internal feelings for the characters? It felt surface to me.
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