Putting myself through a strict reading schedule last week worked. I finished the final 150+ pages of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Here’s my usual short book review:

Not being an English major and being barely able to remember the “great English literature” we read in high school, it was hard getting into the novel esp. given its scholarly style of writing. The most important thing is that the book humanized Iran for me and I learned more about the plight of women there.

dante clubMy habit is to alternate between fiction and non-fiction so I’ve now moved on to The Dante Club centered around the translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. It was assigned reading in college but I can’t say I remember even a whit of it. Ahh, college was great in so many ways but I do wish I had paid more attention in class.

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