Abandoned Books

March 21, 2010 by Christina

I abandoned three books in the past week — Mysteries of the Tower of London (G. Abbott), From Beirut to Jerusalem (Thomas L. Friedman), and Persepolis II (Marjane Satrapi). Mysteries of the Tower of London wasn’t intriguing enough for me; I knew a lot of the “mysteries” already. From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1989, covers Friedman’s time as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese War to his years in Jerusalem, which […]

Categories: Abandoned, Bookish Notes • Tags: G. Abbott, Marjane Satrapi, Thomas L. Friedman

Persepolis I by Marjane Satrapi

March 20, 2010 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Pantheon, 2003. 153 pgs. Gift. Subtitled “The Story of a Childhood”, Satrapi’s graphic novel memoir covers her childhood during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, from the reign of the Shah to the rise of the fundamentalists. It exposes the contradictions that can exist between life at home and how one must act in public during a violent revolution, and shows how bewildering it is for a child to comprehend the changes around them. I was really excited […]

Categories: 2010 Reads, Comics, Middle East, Nonfiction, Textbook • Tags: Marjane Satrapi