The House on Mango Street

I was reading this and I couldn't help but like this excerpt . . .
"Sally, do you sometimes wish you didn't have to go home? Do you wish your feet would one day keep walking and take you far away from Mango Street, far away and maybe your feet would stop in front of a house, a nice one with flowers and big windows and steps for you to climb up two by two upstairs to where a room is waiting for you. And if you opened the little window latch and gave it a shove, the windows would swing open, all the sky would come in. There'd be no nosy neighbors watching, no motorcycles and cars, no sheets and towels and laundry. Only trees and more trees and plenty of blue sky. And you could laugh Sally. You could go to sleep and wake up and never have to think who likes and doesn't like you . . . nobody could make you sad and nobody would think you're strange because you like to dream and dream. And no one could yell at you . . . without someone thinking you are bad . . . without the whole world waiting for you to make a mistake when all you wanted, all you wanted, Sally, was to love and to love and to love and to love, and no one could call that crazy." (Cisneros 82-83).

the best magazines to have around the house . . .

if you want my opinion the best magazines to have around the house are:

national geographic (my favorite. i especially enjoy the beginning of the magazine with the short one page excerpts on "fun facts" if you will.) there world is an intriguing place my friends.

the new yorker (all around quality. i like the short stories, and the literary criticisms, not to mention the cartoons.)

rolling stone (i read through one the other day, and i thought is deserved to be on my list. it provided more information than i expected)

cooking light (i'll always look for new recipes)