#Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
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"Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is a magician with a pen. She crafts stories and characters that live your brain for months and captures a humanity like few others. "Woman Hollering Creek" a is a short story from a larger collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories and I frankly recommend reading the whole collection, but I wanted to put a quick focus onto this one in particular.
This story is about a young woman who came to America from Mexico with her husband and faces abuse from her husband and isolation from her culture and everything she knows. This story is a wonderful view on culture, both regarding the culture around abuse and Mexican culture.
This story took me on a whirlwind of emotions, and I held my breath so tightly for one part that I nearly got lightheaded! But I absolutely cried a bit at the end and found myself rereading again and again because of how beautiful and well written it is.
Be aware of the domestic violence that is featured, and please take care of yourself in reading.
Go read this story! And if you can, go get the whole book!
#Woman Hollering Creek#Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories#sandra cisneros#booklr#book review#books & libraries
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night and day by virginia woolf // from the collected Works; "dracula” by bram stoker // woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros // art by holly warburton // this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar // lighthousekeeping by jeanette winterson // everything everywhere all at once (2022) // quote by margaret atwood
#quotes#comparisons#parallels#compilation#poetry#poetry compilation#web weave#web weaving#webweaving#book quotes#margaret atwood#virginia woolf#film quotes
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—Sandra Cisneros, from Woman at Hollering Creek and Other Stories
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I recognise you...
"I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life…"
— Jeanette Winterson, from ‘Weight’
"Long before I met you / I had waited for you. I had always waited for you."
— Tasos Livaditis, Selected Poems; from 'This Star is For All of Us,1952', tr. Manolis Aligizakis
"If I had never seen her before I should still have known her."
"As for the strange fact that she appeared familiar to me from the first glance, do not lovers always experience the feeling that they have seen each other before and that a mysterious bond has long existed between them?"
— Sadeq Hedayat, The Blind Owl and Other Stories; from ‘The Blind Owl’, tr. D. P. Costello
"I didn't meet him, I recognised him. Love ravages me."
— Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
"I loved you before I was born. / It doesn't make sense, I know."
— Li-Young Lee
"From the beginning of my life / I have been looking for your face"
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi; from 'Looking for Your Face', tr. Deepak Chopra & Fereydoun Kia Rider
"And he’s been here in my heart before I even knew him. Understand? He’s always been here. Always."
— Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories; from 'Never Marry a Mexican'
"I remember / but it hasn’t happened yet"
— Björk, I Miss You
"I wandered through the world / without knowing you existed / however / (now I know) / since the uncertain mist of the beginning / I went searching for you / among the faces."
— Claribel Alegria, Fugues; 'Now I Know', tr. Darwin J. Flakoll
"Twice or thrice had I lov’d thee, / Before I knew thy face or name;"
— John Donne, from ‘Air and Angels’
"Though you had never possessed me / I had belonged to you since the beginning of time"
— Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Futurism × Feminism: The Circle Squared (Poems 1914–1920); from 'Three Moments in Paris'
"Say my name. Say it. / The way it’s supposed to be said. / I want to know that I knew you / even before I knew you."
— Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman; from ‘Dulzura’
"You have been mine before, / How long ago I may not know:"
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from ‘Sudden Light’
"Your heart and my heart / Are very, very old / Friends.
— Hafiz, The Gift: from 'Your Mother and My Mother', tr. Daniel Ladinsky
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I saw you say you before you had a literature degree and recommended reads before (the poems were really good) do you have any other books/poems you recommend (not just Arabic ones but any?)
WOOO putting my degree to good use. So I had to read a lot of classics, short stories, and documents like declarations/speeches/etc. so a lot of books you'll see below are most likely classics or at least from a few decades ago. I mostly work with children now so my newest reads are kid's books (if someone else wants those, feel free to ask!!). My recommendations are below- again, PLLEEEASSEEE be very careful about content warnings and go in with an open mind!
So I'm going to be very very frank, my favorite writer and poet is William Blake. Cannot recommend him enough. "Ah, Sunflower", "The Lamb", "The Tygre", "The Angel"- William Blake my beloved. Fun fact, he's one of the founders/earliest writers of the Romantic Era. He also does gorgeous artworks that either go alongside his books- can't recommend him enough he's amazing.
Do you like autographies? No? Too bad, go read The Autobiography of Malcolm X this is a threat!!!!! I really think this is one everyone should read, it's phenomenal and raw, but also gives you something to discuss and ponder about.
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. Could not put this down. It's a play set in Italy just go read it if you like tragedies and drama I was GASPING the whole time.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf. A shorter read at less than 200 pages. Deals with post-WW1 in a stream of consciousness narrative about a day in the life of Mrs. Dalloway.
I have to, have to, always recommend Toni Morrison. By god is her writing amazing, but I have to give a big big big warning that her books will probably destroy you for a few days. The Bluest Eye especially. Heavy content warnings for her works but... if you can stomach it, absolutely someone you should read.
Other Recommendations I'm not Going Into Heavy Detail About:
Rappaccini's Daughter and Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cask of Amontillado, Ligeia, the Masque of the Red Death, and The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
Sweat and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Thurston.
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Good Country People and A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
"Who Said It Was Simple" but also basically anything by Audre Lorde.
Cathedral by Raymond Carver.
Everyday Use by Alice Walker.
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros.
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Sleeping Beauty (1959) // You and Me - You + Me // Where We Belong, A Duet - Maya Angelou // Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories - Sandra Cisneros, via @weltenwellen // The Footsteps - Paul Valéry (trans. C Day Lewis) // A poem for a moment with you - Eisha Tandon, via @brunetteg1rl // Become - Emery Allen // Against Nostalgia - Ada Limón
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Sharing the books I read in February.
** Means it's a reread.
The dates are the dates completed.
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Dr. Jen Gunter – Feb 1
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor – Feb 3
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe – Feb 4
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston – Feb 7
Claudia and Mean Janine by Ann M. Martin** – Feb 8
Boy-Crazy Stacey by Ann M. Martin** – Feb 9
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Adam Christopher – Feb 10
The Ghost at Dawn's House by Ann M. Martin** – Feb 11
Logan Likes Mary Anne! by Ann M. Martin** – Feb 13
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus – Feb 16
A Whole New World: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell – Feb 19
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros – Feb 21
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen – Feb 21
Why You'll Never Find the One: And Why It Doesn't Matter by Sarah Akinterinwa – Feb 23
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros – Feb 24
Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola – Feb 27
Bummer Summer by Ann M. Martin – Feb 29
Starter Villain by John Scalzi – Feb 29
#ashleybenlove posts#also: in case anybody is like 'Hey Alan Taylor the director wrote books?' different Alan Taylor lol#Just thought I would specify
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books i read in 2023:
fryderyk chopin: a life and times - alan walker
customs: poems - solmaz sharif
when things fall apart: heart advice for difficult times - pema chödrön
pure colour - sheila heti
life, life: selected poems - arseny tarkovsky
sea of tranquility - emily st. john mandel
life is everywhere - lucy ives
why be happy when you could be normal? - jeanette winterson
the end of policing - alex s. vitale
to paradise - hanya yanagihara
woman hollering creek and other stories - sandra cisneros
beyond birds and bees: bringing home a new message to our kids about love, sex, and equality - bonnie j. rough
the natural mother of the child: a memoir of nonbinary parenthood - krys malcolm belc
lurking: how a person became a user - joanne mcneil
jane eyre - charlotte brontë
an apprenticeship, or the book of pleasures - clarice lispector
death in spring - mercè rodoreda
into each room we enter without knowing - charif shanahan
the argonauts - maggie nelson
our share of night - mariana enríquez
our wives under the sea - julia armfield
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AUTHOR FEATURE:
﹒Sandra Cisneros﹒
Six Books Written By this Author:
The House on Mango Street
Caramelo
Woman Hollering Creek & Other Stories
Loose Woman
A House of My Own: Stories From My Life
Martita, I Remember You
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Happy reading!
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But then the movie ends. The lights go on. Somebody picks us up - our shoes and legs heavy and dangling like dead people - carries us in the cold to the car that smells like ashtrays. Black and white, black and white lights behind our closed eyelids, until by now we’re awake but it’s nice to go on pretending with our eyes shut because here’s the best part. Mama and Papa lift us out of the backseat and carry us upstairs to the third-floor front where we live, take off our shoes and clothes, and cover us, so when we wake up, it’s Sunday already, and we’re in our beds and happy.
sandra cisneros, 'mexican movies', from woman hollering creek and other stories
#happiness is a kind of holiness#kidcore#to sleep; perchance to dream#words#woman hollering creek#sandra cisneros#mexican movies#m
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CURRENTLY | Last updated: 03/20/24 "This is not weed killer. This is the purest ocean water and it keeps me from drying out on land!"
✶ KEY ✶
✔︎ = completed/finished
Star Meter Word Count = each star is equivalent to 1K. I'm beta-ing this for myself, it might change. (ie: ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ word count means I've written 1k of a projected 10k goal)
✶ WRITING ✶
South | ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ word count | Chapter 3 of east of my heart, west of my soul ; Prince!Izuku x Reader, Reader explores the ice castle and talks to a polar bear and a mystery man a lot (she also gets it on with said mystery man), 18+ mdni
Unnamed Part 2 | Part 2 of that's just wasteland, baby ; BotW/TotK!Link x Reader x BotW/TotK!Zelda, introducing the cast
a shrike and a thorn | Priest!Kento Nanami x Reader ; oneshot, absolute filth lol, priest kink, possible tw religious themes, 18+ only
in the hall of the mountain king | Forest God!Link x Reader ; oneshot, sorta monsterf*cking sorta a/b/o, 18+ only
✶ BRAINSTORMING ✶
pride and prejudice au | Darcy!Kento Nanami x Bennet!Reader ; series ; there will be 18+ material
✶ READING ✶
When the Moon Hatched
Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories
Queen of Shadows
Poor Deer
✶ WATCHING ✶
Naruto | Season 2
The Durrells in Corfu | Season 1
Queer Eye | Season 4
✶ LISTENING ✶
making art or whatever
smiling again
playing with the big boys now
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2022 in Books: Fiction Edition
literary fiction published 2015-2022 (based on publish of english translation!)
breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
heads of the colored people by nafissa thompson-spires (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - a perfect short story collection. so witty!
the hole by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
larose by louise erdrich (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
i will die in a foreign land by kalani pickhart (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the house of broken angels by luis alberto urrea (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
less by andrew sea greer (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
there there by tommy orange (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
at night all blood is black by david diop (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney (⭐⭐⭐)
weasels in the attic by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)
joan is okay by weike wang (⭐⭐⭐)
a tiny upward shove by melissa chadburn (⭐⭐⭐) - one of the most upsetting books i've ever read :( lots of merit but good lord is it rough
open water by caleb azumah nelson (⭐⭐⭐)
earthlings by sayaka murata (⭐⭐⭐) - competing with a tiny upward shove for most disgusting difficult book to read. this one i almost couldn't complete
kim jiyoung, born 1982 by nam-joo cho (⭐⭐) - this is so overrated. it's not a novel. it's an essay pretending to be a novel.
very nice by marcy dermansky (⭐⭐)
true love by sarah gerard (⭐⭐) - ever wanted to shake some sense into a character before?
spark by naoki matayoshi (⭐⭐)
people from my neighborhood by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐)
the doll by ismail kadare (⭐)
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sexing the cherry by jeanette winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i have never highlighted more lines in a book. prose got me in a chokehold.
love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
norwegian wood by haruki murakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't wanna like murakami as much as i do but damn he doesn't miss
midnight's children by salman rushdie (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
less than zero by bret easton ellis (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
woman at point zero by nawal el saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - read this if you want to get homicidally angry :)
lion cross point by masatsugu ono (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
post office by charles bukowski (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
dept. of speculation by jenny offill (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if i'd ever had to fight for a relationship this would have been a 5 star.
the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - cheat code: read this aloud. prose drips off the tongue.
the ten loves of mr. nishino by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
kitchen by banana yoshimoto (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the divorce by cesar aira (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - 4 stars on the merit of the first part. the rest is probably a 3 star
if you kept a record of sins by andrea bajani (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
love by hanne orstavik (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal (⭐⭐⭐)
the factory by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)
a feather on the breath of god by sigrid nunez (⭐⭐⭐) - good for what it is but a bit lightweight? maybe too critical because i loved 'the friend' by the same author
the white tiger by aravind adiga (⭐⭐⭐)
sleepless nights by elizabeth hardwick (⭐⭐⭐)
the story of my teeth by valeria luiselli (⭐⭐) - cool concept. unsure about the execution.
interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri (⭐⭐)
battles in the desert by jose emilio pacheco (⭐⭐) - should have been a novel not a novella. it ends right as it starts to gain steam
literary fiction published start of time-1970
the passion according to g.h. by clarice lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - favorite book of the year!!!! an existential crisis on paper!!!!
japanese tales of mystery & imagination by edogawa rampo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - the 1st short story in this is insane! insane! the chair! i'm screaming!
miramar by naguib mahfouz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the blind owl by sadegh hedayat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - pinnacle of slow descent into madness fiction...or it's not that slow i guess
pedro paramo by juan rulfo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the turn of the screw by henry james (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - would have been 4 stars, but i read an edition with lit crit essays in the back and it was so fun to read the "but are the ghosts real?" discourses that i had to give it that extra star
i am a cat by natsume soseki (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if soseki ever described my physical appearance in writing i'd promptly perish. he eviscerates people. dear god.
giovanni's room by james baldwin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the old man and the sea (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the interpreters by wole soyinka (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't even know what i like about this book. bad characters, no plot, confusing prose. and yet...it's got a rhythm. it possessed me.
pocho by jose antonio villareal (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
the living is easy by dorothy west (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - one of my fave protags of all time!
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bartleby, the scrivener: a story of wall street by herman melville (⭐⭐⭐) - tell you why i didn't give this more stars? i'd prefer not to.
season of migration to the north by tayeb salih (⭐⭐⭐)
everything and nothing by jorge luis borges (⭐⭐⭐) - i read this with a migraine. i was not in the right mindset. i'll give ficciones more attention someday.
portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce (⭐⭐) - listen i'm not proud of this rating either. joyce isn't 2 stars. i'm just a 2 star reader.
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the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i usually don't care for fantasy and hated the other v.e. schwab i read, so this was a nice surprise. it lost me at points but ultimately regained me. deals with the devil are my kryptonite.
a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas (⭐⭐⭐) - i get the hype. hard to criticize because its faults are what make it so good to others. i liked a lot of it.
how to stop time by matt haig (⭐⭐⭐)
the goddess chronicle by natsuo kirino (⭐⭐⭐)
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sea of ruin by pam godwin (⭐⭐) - i thought this was a pirate romance. it is smut. pure smut. i was blushing on audio book. not a fan.
city of refuge by kenzo kitakata (⭐⭐)
nothing but blackened teeth by cassandra khaw (⭐⭐) - bizarre ending. like it could have been ok but it missed the obvious homerun for no reason.
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the inspector general by nikolai gogol (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
waiting for godot by samuel beckett (⭐⭐) - listen i'm just a dumb dumb. i know it's good. i just didn't like it.
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"And he’s been here in my heart before I even knew him. Understand? He’s always been here. Always."
— Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories; from 'Never Marry a Mexican'
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We're going to right the world and live. I mean our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love until it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.
Sandra Cisneros, 'Bien Pretty' from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
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Books I read in 2023 and How I feel about them/do I even remember them
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut ##very good and very anti war and pro art like most Vonnegut and great way to start a year
Rebecca by Daphane Du Maurier ##liked it fine not very memorable
Stardust by Neil Gaimen ##loved it
Mary Shelley's Frankeinstein: A Graphic Novel by Pete Katz (Illustrator/script writer) and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ##fine
Most of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros ##haunted by it so had to stop
An Easy Death by Charlene Harris ##loves it and convinced me to read other Harris books
Russian Cage by Charlene Harris ##liled it fine
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey ##so gay, wateres my crops etc, need more of this, could read a 100000 more books like this, could trick you into loving Westerners
Dark Tales: The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Graphic Novel by Ned Hartley (adapter), Dave Shephard (Illustrator), Arthur Conan Doyle ##fine
Most of Trigger Warning by Neil Gaimen ##loved it, all the best short stories Gaimen wrote
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain ##worst book ever, its offensive to everyone, its anti everyone, it hates ever religion
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins ##Girl tore me up and spat me out, how did you show everything wrong with snow and the games in a new light and can I saw sooo good
The Umbrella Academy Collection Part 1 by Gerard Way (Writer), Gabriel Bá (Artist), Dave Stewart (Colourist), Tony Šercer (Translator) ##liked the show much more
The Selection, The Elite and The One by Kiera Cass ##three books on one cause they run together and they are fine
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis ##sooo good like a treat
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ##still holds up real good
Dead Till Dark by Charlene Harris ##oh true blood was better tv
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlene Harris ##oh jason really sucks and man Eric is soo fun but they murdered my boy without any real bite, very bury your gays and sure I have a black friend, so the tv show is sooo elevated
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Thanks for tagging me Justine @stressedjuice !
Favorite color: purple 💜
Currently reading: Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros. It’s a collection of short stories and poems, I’d recommend it.
Sweet, savory, or spicy?: SWEET. But if can cheat I’ll say sweet+spicy together (tamarind candies, fruit with Tajín, etc)
Last series: Good Omens!!! But if we’re doing any kind of series then technically it would be the Saw movies lol
Currently working on: nothing? Idk. Myself, I guess. Although, I am planning on making a Damian!Robin plushie. We’ll see if it actually gets past the planning stage lol
If you’re seeing this and we’re mutuals, this is me for real actually 100% tagging you 🫵 (unless don’t want to which is fine lol)
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