The narrator, Antonio, is an intelligent, spiritually-inclined boy, the youngest of a large family in rural New Mexico. The villages and the land around them are drawn with depth and beauty. That’s the strongest aspect of this book: the spirit of the place. Trees, river, lake, sky, and soil are aliv...
The second Sonny Baca novel is not just a sequel, but a continuation of a journey through the four seasons and the four sacred directions that began in book one, Zia Summer. Sonny, the great-grandson of legendary New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca, grows as heir to his bisabuelo’s role and also in his sp...
A mystery with many layers, the first of Anaya’s Sonny Baca novels is crime fiction and also literary fiction with mythical depths. At one level, it’s the story of a young private detective’s search for his cousin’s killer; at the other level, it’s the story of his spiritual development and reconnec...
This is a beautifully written coming of age story that I listened to as an unabridged audiobook. I don’t typically seek out this sort of book but the blurbage from the SYNC program caught my eye last summer and, well, it was free and I'm all about the free. I regret reading many a book but my only...
How do I begin writing a review for this book? I guess I'll start with a story of how I came to read "Bless Me Ultima" and why I ended up reading it again in recent considerations (2013). I read "Bless Me Ultima" for the first time in my AP Literature and Composition class. My teacher at the time ...
A lifetime ago I had the pleasure of taking two semesters of creative writing at the University of New Mexico. At the time, I had never heard of Rudolfo Anaya, and didn't realize that my professor was such an accomplished artist. I absolutely loved his classes, and yet, even after I learned he had...
Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2012/08/banned-book-bless-me-ultima-by-rudolfo.htmlDid you know that Bless me, Ultima is in the ALA list of banned books for 2008?Yeap. First published in 1972 the book has been banned from been used in schools because, as I recall, Anaya uses magic, profanity, viole...
This novel is a short read and once you get started its hard to put it down making it a quick read if you will. I loved the authenticity in the cultural contexts and the development of the characters through out the novel.
a little heavy handed. I did like the beginning of the Ash Wednesday Chapter."Ash Wednesday. There is no other day like Ash Wednesday. The proud and the meek, the arrogant and the humble are all made equal on Ash Wednesday. The healthy and the sick, the assured and the sick in spirit, all make their...
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