Category: Books Marjane Satrapi’s Woman, Life, Freedom: Tyranny and a Feminist Revolution

One of the contenders for this year’s Oscar for Best International Film is The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Secretly filmed in Tehran, the fictional screenplay takes place during the weeks of protest that followed the nonfictional death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in police custody…
Riad Sattouf Uncovers the Life of a Long Lost Brother
Awesome Gift for Francophiles who Love Paris and Photography
Stories of French Adolescence and History that Many Want to Forget

If you follow my blog, you’ve probably recognized that I have a penchant for sobering literature. While feel-good stories aren’t exactly banned from my shelves, most of what I read is either nonfiction or historical fiction that sheds light on a troubling period in human history. Likewise, when it comes…
Pat Conroy Literary Center, Tribute to a Great American Author

Like Marcel Proust’s madeleine dipped in lime blossom tea, a chance visit to the Pat Conroy Literary Center this week elicited a flood of memories from my childhood. Unlike Conroy, I grew up in the north. My parents were diehard liberals, free thinkers that decried America’s involvement in Vietnam and…
Le Grand Monde: A Crumbling Empire Sets the Stage for Vice and Villainy
Madame Bovary: A Meticulous Study of the Doldrums
Marjane Satrapi’s Woman, Life, Freedom: Tyranny and a Feminist Revolution

One of the contenders for this year’s Oscar for Best International Film is The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Secretly filmed in Tehran, the fictional screenplay takes place during the weeks of protest that followed the nonfictional death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in police custody…
Riad Sattouf Uncovers the Life of a Long Lost Brother
Awesome Gift for Francophiles who Love Paris and Photography
Stories of French Adolescence and History that Many Want to Forget

If you follow my blog, you’ve probably recognized that I have a penchant for sobering literature. While feel-good stories aren’t exactly banned from my shelves, most of what I read is either nonfiction or historical fiction that sheds light on a troubling period in human history. Likewise, when it comes…
Pat Conroy Literary Center, Tribute to a Great American Author

Like Marcel Proust’s madeleine dipped in lime blossom tea, a chance visit to the Pat Conroy Literary Center this week elicited a flood of memories from my childhood. Unlike Conroy, I grew up in the north. My parents were diehard liberals, free thinkers that decried America’s involvement in Vietnam and…