Embroideries

Last Christmas, a friend bought me Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi. I've sang her praises before over on that other blog I had but is now gone. She's an Iranian ex-pat currently living in France. She wrote the wonderful graphic novels Persepolis I and II. Persepolis has even been turned into a film.

Anyway, like her earlier works, Embroideries is a graphic novel reflecting some portion of Marjane's experience growing up Iranian. In this book, the setting is tea time at her grandmother's home one afternoon. Marjane joins her grandmother, mother, and assorted female family friends to discuss, well, sex and men. Not something you'd expect from Iran, eh?

The book was a quick read. It was funny and interesting. It was also how I imagine most Iranians to be rather than the fanatics we see on the telly.

Books Read in 2007:

Embroideries ~ Marjane Satrapi
13 Little Blue Envelopes ~ Maureen Johnson
The Cider House Rules ~ John Irving
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ~J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ~ J.K. Rowling
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy ~ Charmaine Craig
An Abundance of Katherines ~ John Green
The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas
Looking For Alaska ~ John Green
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest ~ Stephen Ambrose
Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times ~ edited by Sara Nikles
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood ~ Ann Brashares