La Casa en Mango Street

It’s a little after 2am. I’m having the dreams. The ones that blindside me and have that weird echo --- is or isn’t this real? Sleep isn’t going to happen. What’s new. I leave my room to check out the house. Doors locked? Check. Kids asleep? Check…whoa, hold up a minute. Em is awake. She’s sitting i......more

Some children's books are good only in childhood. Some children's books are good at any age. And some children's books can be fantasticamazingmagical through your whole life, but only when you first read it when you were a kid. I think this book is part of that last group. I wish I read this when I wa......more

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to The House on Mango Street, a short series of vignettes published in 1984 and written by Sandra Cisneros. Picture it: Long Island, August 1995. 18-year-old college student receives a letter in the mail, revealing two books he must read prior to attending the......more

Not a comforting read. Liked it nevertheless. This book made me feel and think about a lot of things. The way we have been brought up. The way how our families influence us as grownups. The way the community we live in affects our lives. And yes, I do think that many culture "did not want their women......more

The house where Esperanza Cordero lives with her family, on Mango Street in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Chicago, is not the house that she would have wanted; at one point, she states that “I want a house on the hill like the ones with the gardens where Papa works.” But as chronicled by......more