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great read

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: this is must-have for the avid reader. sandra cisneros is an awesome writer. i love her style and i find that i relate to her in many ways.

A must-read short story collection

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: These are deeply heartfelt stories; most of them are perfectly balanced glances at moments in a life, whether it be the life of a child or an adult.

Ms. Cisneros is able to capture these moments in a remarkably intuitive and heartfelt way. What skill--but the best thing is, there is nothing obvious or manipulative about Ms. Cisneros' writing. This makes her stories unique. Some of the stories are more successful than others, but you remember her best because of their realism, and their integrity.

If I could write fiction, I would want to write like Ms. Cisneros. She has a certain (dare I say it) purity and truthfulness in her style that is very attractive, and probably only comes to a writer after much heartache, testing and patience, while trying to capture the elusive "voice".

Amazing stories

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Once again Sandra Cisneros has created a work of great value. I loved this book from beginning to end. The way it is formatted to the detailed explanations of life create a work like none other. Once you read this book, check out House on Mango Street.

Will stay with you forever

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I read this book for a Chicano litterature class in college, and absolutely fell in love. The stories are so touching and real, they will stay with you for a very long time. The stories will come to me and different times and make me smile. I would deffinately recommend this book.

Joyful Noise

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek & Other Stories is a collection of 22 stories that have been divided into three sections. Each section is named after one of the stories contained in it. These stories work because the situations are real. They are narratives that people can really connect with. The language is common and is easily understood by individuals of various educational levels.

Narration is a key to uniqueness of the accounts in Woman Hollering Creek & Other Stories. The narrators in the first section are young. Children, probably no older than about twelve years of age. The narrators in the second and third sections of stories are slightly older than the first group of storytellers, yet still in the midst of adolescences and young adulthood. Individuals trying to find themselves.

Initially, it was not my intent to read the entire collection of stories contained in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek. I was assigned a project in school, in which I needed to deal with a text, from an ethnic perspective, among other things. I chose to read the title story, Woman Hollering Creek. I actually enjoyed the story. I found it to be very inspirational. The way that Cleofilas, the main character makes the transformation from a meek, battered woman to an empowered woman with a positive outlook on life. I think that this tale would be especially motivational for women in abusive situations.

After reading the title story for my school project, I was eager to read some of the other stories from the collection. Overall, I found the stories in this collection to be enjoyable. I would caution parents however about this collection, only because some of the stories in the second and third sections are definitely not suitable for younger readers. These stories deal with topics of a sexually charged nature. (Nothing that is necessarily vulgar though.) The second and third sections of stories should be suitable however for high school students.