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An excellent blend of travelogue, memoir, and spiritual reading

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5.0 out of 5 stars. From Midwest Book Review. The spice of life awaits anyone who seeks to find it. “San Miguel, De Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing” is a tale from Rick Skwiot as he reflects on turning his life around during an extended trip to Mexico and learning [...]

A Non Guide Book about San Miguel

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By Richard Lander in Gangs of San Miguel Blog Not everyone in San Miguel wears rugs.  Not everyone in San Miguel is retired.  Not everyone in San Miguel is happy. This is a book is about an expat who lived in San Miguel,  didn’t wear rugs nor do all the silly things I write about [...]

What readers are saying about San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing

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 “I thoroughly enjoyed every page. The writing is, as expected, exquisite, but there is something new and powerful about this memoir… [It] builds a strong emotional core that pulls you in from start to finish… And then, there are countless characters that just make you laugh out loud… Like the land it depicts, this is [...]

Novelist Rosalind Brackenbury’s review of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

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[published in Solares Hill, October 31, 2010] Memoir of a Sensual Quest For Spiritual Healing Reviewed by Rosalind Brackenbury “San Miguel de Allende, Mexico”  By Rick Skwiot Antaeus Books, $14 A memoir of a time, a place, the people in it and the young man he was 25 years ago, when he lived in Mexico, [...]

Unsolicited Reader Comments on Christmas at Long Lake

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  “I have enjoyed Christmas at Long Lake hugely…It is beautiful and cleanly written, and I admire it not only for its use of language but as well fro the ways in which, within the framework of the narration of events of a couple of days, it works outward to create a larger thematic universe [...]

Critical Praise for Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory

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  “Rick Skwiot works his own magic…As usual, Skwiot’s writing is sure…And his tale has a gritty, blue-collar cachet…This is good reading.”—Kansas City Star “Skwiot’s vivid descriptions of the physical and emotional landscape of this environment are poignant, entertaining, and instructional…There is magic in this depiction of a setting and a way of life that [...]