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Raul Ramos y Sanchez

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La Habana, Cuba

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“January” is the first English word I ever learned. I read it on the calendar thumbtacked to the wall of our apartment in the Bronx. Han-noo-a-ree, I pronounced it. That was in the winter of 1957. My mother had just divorced my father and moved us from Havana to New York City. My father was busy trying to overthrow Batista and my mother thought her prospects for raising a seven-year-old son looked much better sewing sequins on evening gowns in the midtown garment district than in a Cuban prison. Thanks, mamá. You made the right call.

Since mastering that first English word, the power and joy of words have become my life. I not only love words, I’ve made a living from them. First, composing them into pages as a graphic designer, and later arr...more

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Radio interview on Conversations LIVE discusses book three of the Class H Trilogy

Wednesday, May 30that 8PM Eastern - 5PM PacificListen live or catch a podcast at:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive
If you're not watching a rerun of Modern Family next Wednesday night, I hope you'll tune in for my interview on Conversations LIVE with Blogtalk radio "Featured Host" Cyrus Webb.The popular half-hour show includes guests from the arts and entertainment scene, the worl... read more »

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Average rating: 3.62 · 52 ratings · 12 reviews · 2 distinct works

	America Libre 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	House Divided 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Seventh Son

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Raul Ramos y Sanchez wrote a new blog post: Radio interview discusses PANCHO LAND, third novel of the Class H Trilogy Radio interview discusses PANCHO LAND, third novel of the Class H Trilogy Wednesday, May 30that 8PM Eastern - 5PM PacificListen live or catch a podcast at:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversa... you're not watching a re... read more »
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Raul Ramos y Sanchez made a comment on Progressive cause not served by Olbermann, Moore and Rivera: "I appreciate your comment, Patry. "
May 09, 2012 08:52pm
Raul Ramos y Sanchez gave to: Murders Most Foul: And the School Shooters in Our Midst by Rebecca Coffey read in April, 2012	My rating:
As I read MURDERS MOST FOUL, the relevance of Rebecca Coffey’s book became painfully clear. Seven people were killed and three more wounded at Oikos University by student One L. Goh, the latest tragedy in a baffling series of U.S. school killings tha...more
Apr 11, 2012 07:37am · see review
Raul Ramos y Sanchez gave to: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain	My rating:
Mar 02, 2012 05:28pm
Raul Ramos y Sanchez gave to: The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter	My rating:
Mar 02, 2012 05:27pm
Raul Ramos y Sanchez gave to: Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession by Paul Reyes (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
With prose that is frank, vivid and highly-original, Paul Reyes manages to give a soul to a soulless place in EXILES IN EDEN. Reyes' deftly uses his presence in the book to provide social observations while avoiding the omniscient third person morali...more
Mar 02, 2012 05:26pm · see review
Raul Ramos y Sanchez is currently reading: Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card	My rating:
Mar 02, 2012 05:24pm
Raul Ramos y Sanchez gave to: Funny In Farsi: A Memoir Of Growing Up Iranian In America by Firoozeh Dumas read in February, 2012	My rating:
Mar 02, 2012 05:22pm
Raul Ramos y Sanchez liked R.L.B. Hartmann's blog post: Need Ruben Dario expert "I've exhausted myself, if not the net, searching for the poem by Ruben Dario that contains the phrase "a lion against the wind." If anyone can supply the poem in either English or Spanish by midMar..." ...read it »
Feb 24, 2012 06:02pm
Raul Ramos y Sanchez liked R.L.B. Hartmann's blog post: I FOUND IT ! "It's "Night in the Tropics" and not the translation I read years ago, but it IS the RIGHT POEM. Searched until I found a link http://www.poetry-archive.com/d/nightfall_in_the_tropics.html and l..." ...read it »
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