How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - While the structure of this novel is of the clever sort that would normally make you read it twice, I'm not sure I feel like doing so. Alvarez has a good few (uncannily in some cases) similar motifs going in her work to Judith Cofer's, and the writing is of the same caliber, but I couldn't bring myself to identify with any of the characters. It seemed to me that the heart that's in some other Chicano literature has been candycoated in this novel.

-sonic boom photos - I wonder if the guy who took the picture of the Phantom got knocked over

-Gangus - some gorgeous art in the Workshop section; might have to sift a little, though

-flower clock - read about this in the Wildcat...go organic!

-be a spy: see the world!