Book Review: Embroideries
To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. I was in a graphic novel kind of mood, and I enjoyed Persepolis, so I picked up Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi....
Apr 7, 2010 0 1 min read
Nonfiction
Book Review: The Complete Persepolis
Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half...
Book Review: Dust Tracks on a Road
So you will have to know something about the time and place where I come from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life. Dust Tracks on a Road...
Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on...
Book Review: Angela Davis: An Autobiography
I was not anxious to write this book. Writing an autobiography at my age seemed presumptuous. Moreover, I felt that to write about my life, what I did, what I thought and...
shameless self-promotion
A review I wrote of Robinn Gourley’s Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie and Anita Silvey’s I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War appears in...
Book Review: I’ll Pass for Your Comrade
I'll tie back my hair, men's clothing I'll put on. / I'll pass for your comrade as we march along. / I'll pass for your comrade, no one will ever know-- / Won't you let me...
what I'm reading
Alicia does brief posts wherein she says what book she's currently reading. I've been flirting with doing something similar except, well, what I'm currently reading...
January books
The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes: Very fast read about a young girl who gets separated from her brother while in foster care. I found the book lacking in detail where I...