The subject while intersting, did not survive the voice of the pretentious snob reading it (a combination of the Author and the Audio Book Voice). It was very hard to get past the British snooty voice in the Audio book and combine that with an Author who tries to write as descriptive as Nabokov but ...
"It is only now, when I try to gather up the morsels of those days, that I discover how little, if ever, we talked about our personal lives--about love and marriage and how it felt to have children, or not to. It seemed as if, apart from literature, the political had devoured us, eliminating the per...
I've started this book, and I WILL get back to it someday. What I've read so far is good, but it is, in my opinion, rather slow-paced in getting going and I just didn't have the patience to keep at it. I know I'll like it when I have more time to devote to it, someday, when my kids are older....
I wish I had liked this book better. I knew very little about Iran in the early 90's so I found this book to be informative but besides that, I was very bored. Unfortunately, I had only read about 5 of the books that she talks about through the entire book so that made it hard to be interested in wh...
I love the literary discussions in this book, although I was expecting more to be said about Austen. The author's constant need to convey her political ideas can be tiring at times, and to be honest I felt that she attacked Islam and Muslims a lot -- maybe I'm just sensitive about this because I'm a...
Reminds me of the time I went to lunch with one of my Lit. professors in college. Her books were such a part of her, all aspects of life related in some way to an author or character. This "memoir in books" is truly that -- the author's memories of life in Iran shared with the assistance of her book...
"A Memoir in Books" - the concept sounded fascinating. Especially for a book lover like me. Unfortunately, it didn't really work for me. It ended up taking me almost a month to read this book, because it just didn't capture me. Not that it was boring, and I enjoyed it while I was reading it, I just ...
You read this book and realize how incredibly lucky you are to be living in a country where you are not told what to read, what to wear and whom to marry.Plus you discover some beautiful insights into English and American literature but also Persian culture.
Now that I've finished I still have very conflicting feelings about the book. First, I didn't love the writing style - very scattered and inconsistent. The next issue is that many readers will feel like the book doesn't really deliver what it promises. The dust jacket description leads you to beli...
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