2 posts tagged “international things”

Goal 025: Read "Reading Lolita in Tehran".

It was an *interesting* book.  It took me a little while to get into it because it's written very much in a text-critical fashion where novels are deconstructed.  What I did like was that Azar compared what was going on in the books to what was going on in Iran at the time.

I was fairly horrified at the treatment of women in Iran but it was nothing that I didn't already know.  It was interesting to see how the stuff in the books played out in contrast to what was going on politically at the time.

Goal 026: Read The Kite Runner

I just finished The Kite Runner and whoa... 

It made me want to order more "We Will Not Be Silent" shirts in Farsi and English.  It made me want to drop everything and go to Afghanistan and work in a women's clinic.  It made me want to give every penny I have to orphanages.

It moved me.