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Alicia C

Alicia C

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I'm a 60 something grandmother raising a wonderful grandson and I live with my best friend, who happens to be my husband.
I was recently laid off so I hope to have more time to read, that is, until I find another job, or I pursue genealogy and maybe write a book on our family history.
I love to read many genre's, romance, history,... more »
  • San Jose, CA, USA
  • member since August 20, 2010

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  • A Ship Made of Paper
    • Rated 4 stars

    “It's one of those books you can't put down. It speaks of love, betrayal, adultery and of lives injured, damaged and destroyed when people cease to think with their mind and begin to act on impulse only.
    Daniel Emerson, a white man is enthralled by African Americans. Having been raised by older parents as an only child in a household devoid of affection, he goes in search of love.
    He's been living with a white woman named Kate who has a child from her previous marriage.
    They become partners in raising Ruby, Kate's daughter. They were initially drawn to each other as a result of their apparently loveless characters with the intent to be as distant and inane as possible. Daniel is a loving father to Kate's daughter taking her to pre-school. At the pre-school he falls for Iris, an African American woman who's the mother of Nelson, Ruby's best friend.
    Daniel becomes obsessed with Iris, Nelson's mother. During a freak snowstorm, Daniel is trapped in Iris's home and their romance takes off.
    This is the story of the stolen romance the injured lives and the heartache it wreaks on everyone it touches.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Monday, April 18, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

  • Sumaria Relacion de las cosas de la Nueva España

    by Baltasar Dorantes de Carranza
    • Rated 4 stars

    “A history of the conquest of Mexico, by one who accompanied Cortez into the Americas during the conquest. Baltazar's diary is one of the few memoirs remaining of the conquest. A must read for anyone interested in the history of the colonization of the America's from the perspective of a priest who was with the conquerors and who was not a warrior and had no other agenda other than to write what he saw, heard and lived.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Friday, April 8, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Lucky
    • Rated 4 stars

    “How do you write about rape, especially when it's happened to you? Alice takes us through her harrowing experience as a freshman college student in Syracuse New York. This is a first person account of what the true meaning of rape is. It's insidious in that changes who you are forever and those around you. It destroys who you once were until you don't know who you are or where you belong.
    Alice Sebold tells of who her family was before and after and of the long term effects and the effects on friends and friendships.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Friday, April 8, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Secret History
    • Rated 3 stars

    “It felt like the story of a young adult man who's running away from home to find a replacement family. His parents are disdainful of him, he applies to a university as far away from his parents as possible. They accept him with a scholarship and his parents can now be done with him.
    In the process, he lands a new family of young, rich and esoteric students who blindly lead him into an un-imagineable crime, to kill one of their friends in order to hide a previous murder they'd commited.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Friday, April 8, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Soldaderas. (English)
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Loved it, very moving regarding the Mexican women who so bravely fought or accompanied their men during the Mexican Revolution. Full of touching photographs taken by Victor Casasola that are currently archived in the Fototeca Nacional of the Institute of Anthropolgy and History in Pachuca, Hidalgo Mexico and compiled and written by Elena Poniatowska.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Monday, March 28, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Folk Wisdom of Mexico / Proverbios y dichos mexicanos
    • Rated 4 stars

    “For those of us who grew up hearing these sayings or dichos, this is a gold mine. Proverbs passed down from parent to child through the generations.
    Example, "Mas vale morir parado que vivir de rodillas. English translation is Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Monday, March 28, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • A God in Ruins
    • Rated 3 stars

    “The beginning was quite intriguing but the book never really took hold. The end was a let down.
    Quinn Patrick O'Connell discovers during his run for the presidency that his birth parents were Jewish. Quite a shock considering he was raised by faithful and strict Catholic parents.
    There are two story lines, one detailing Quinn's life and the other was the life of the Thornton Tomtree, the President of the United States at the time that Quinn was running for president.
    I have like other books by Leon Uris but this one falls short.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Tuesday, March 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Love Walked in
    • Rated 3 stars

    “It was a compelling read. For one who enjoys romance of any kind but especially the love for a child. The story of a young woman who believes she's in love with loveliness itself, who has to face the reality of true beauty.

    A child with a mother who's lost her sanity and in the process the turmoil it creates for the bright and charming young girl. When the mother's delusions cause her to abandon her daughter, it leads the young Clare to turn to her father who's always been dismissive of his daughter.

    Martin unable to care for this daughter that he barely knows, turns to his girlfriend Cornelia for help with his daughter.

    A series of amazing turn of events. Love walked in takes us through their lives as love walks in and weaves it's way around all the characters.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Tuesday, March 1, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Life and Death in Shanghai
    • Rated 3 stars

    “ life in China during the transition to Communism from the perspective of one of China's educated and elite women prior to the Red Army's revolution and her life during and after the revolution while imprisoned for treason.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Sunday, February 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Ender's Game
    • Rated 3 stars

    “It's not my usual genre of books, was loaned to me by a friend. science fiction that could be read by young and old alike.”

    Alicia C wrote this review Tuesday, February 22, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
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