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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
I always hate rating memoirs
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Thought it was an overall good read, and I’m glad they managed to make it out alive to tell their story
Whilst the story and flow was good, I feel like the writing lack a little depth, but it is also a memoir so maybe I’m judging it by the wrong lens
What does the score mean in this sense?
Thought it was an overall good read, and I’m glad they managed to make it out alive to tell their story
Whilst the story and flow was good, I feel like the writing lack a little depth, but it is also a memoir so maybe I’m judging it by the wrong lens
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Amazing. This books arises lots of emotions and very realistic feelings. Sometimes it makes you feel like the author of the book, like her experience is never going to end.
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The Mahmoody family travels from Michigan to Iran in the early 1980s to visit family for two weeks. Once there, Moody, Betty’s husband, announces they are staying permanently. Moody’s immediate family were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic government. The women and children were the property of the husband.
Betty’s treatment at the hands of Moody was horrific. He was mentally unstable. The story follows Betty struggles to escape, along with her young daughter Mahtob, an awful abusive marriage in a foreign country dominated by Islamic culture and laws. Read for book club.
Betty’s treatment at the hands of Moody was horrific. He was mentally unstable. The story follows Betty struggles to escape, along with her young daughter Mahtob, an awful abusive marriage in a foreign country dominated by Islamic culture and laws. Read for book club.
This book is an account of a woman who was mistreated and threatened by people she now intensely despises. So, the book is very negative about Iranian culture. It might already have been a huge step for the author to present some parts of Iranian culture as redeemable, I'm impressed she can do so, considering her experiences there.
I can imagine how many must have been offended at the publishing of this book. But I don't think anyone can argue that this is indeed a true, if not highly subjective, account of a woman's visit to -and escape from- Iran.
I gave it only three stars because it was hard to sympathise with the main character. She seemed a bit full of herself and American society. Also, she was often describing what her daughter was thinking and feeling, whenever this happened it seemed very much as if she was projecting her own thoughts and feelings on her daughter. I'd be intrigued to read the daughters account: [b:My Name Is Mahtob: A Daring Escape, a Life of Fear, and the Forgiveness That Set Me Free|25703697|My Name Is Mahtob A Daring Escape, a Life of Fear, and the Forgiveness That Set Me Free|Mahtob Mahmoody|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1447145451s/25703697.jpg|45073312].
I can imagine how many must have been offended at the publishing of this book. But I don't think anyone can argue that this is indeed a true, if not highly subjective, account of a woman's visit to -and escape from- Iran.
I gave it only three stars because it was hard to sympathise with the main character. She seemed a bit full of herself and American society. Also, she was often describing what her daughter was thinking and feeling, whenever this happened it seemed very much as if she was projecting her own thoughts and feelings on her daughter. I'd be intrigued to read the daughters account: [b:My Name Is Mahtob: A Daring Escape, a Life of Fear, and the Forgiveness That Set Me Free|25703697|My Name Is Mahtob A Daring Escape, a Life of Fear, and the Forgiveness That Set Me Free|Mahtob Mahmoody|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1447145451s/25703697.jpg|45073312].
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