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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Equal parts haunting and inspiring. A fantastic follow up to the first book that is like a bleak look into a possible near future.
“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
That's a very nice conclusion. I don't even know what to say. The author explores her culture, she accepts some parts and criticizes others. I think it's the way it should be. No country is perfect and if everyone just blindly follows the regime, nothing will ever change. (Speaking from a pretty fucked-up country in a lot of ways.)
The GN seemed tense at the beginning of the first volume, but it got better, more interesting and I even got attached to our main character a bit. That's always a plus for me.
I'd recommend this book to everyone. Literally everyone. Please, pick it up. It's important.
That's a very nice conclusion. I don't even know what to say. The author explores her culture, she accepts some parts and criticizes others. I think it's the way it should be. No country is perfect and if everyone just blindly follows the regime, nothing will ever change. (Speaking from a pretty fucked-up country in a lot of ways.)
The GN seemed tense at the beginning of the first volume, but it got better, more interesting and I even got attached to our main character a bit. That's always a plus for me.
I'd recommend this book to everyone. Literally everyone. Please, pick it up. It's important.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Marjane heads to Austria for French school and her life goes in a completely unexpected direction. Without family support she flails. She spends years in a place with more freedom and opportunity, but she’s tethered to nothing. She eventually returns to Iran, where she contends with the repression of her youth, reconnects with family, meets a guy, goes to school and gets married. It’s an interesting mix of daily life, oppression, the end of war, and new opportunities.
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
While Persepolis 1 explored Marji’s childhood in a war zone, Persepolis 2 explores her adolescent coming of age years, her experience as a refugee, and her experience returning home to a changed nation. This was more introspective than Persepolis 1, which is why I slightly preferred this portion of the story. Both are great and I highly recommend!
(I don’t rate memoirs below a 4 star because I think it takes a lot of courage to be this vulnerable and share your life story. So for me 4-4.25 is good, 4.5-4.75 is great, 5.0 is fantastic.)
(I don’t rate memoirs below a 4 star because I think it takes a lot of courage to be this vulnerable and share your life story. So for me 4-4.25 is good, 4.5-4.75 is great, 5.0 is fantastic.)
refreshing to witness the life of someone who is so totally immersed in life. the overlapping of self, family, partners, and the much wider scope of society and nation within this series is illuminating. i appreciate how the author calls back to many topics expressed throughout the book and that this book ends in a sort of symmetry to the first. i see satrapi within the same club as didion, not necessarily in terms of personality (satrapi is bolder i think), but as someone who is irrevocably honest with herself and the way she exists in the world.
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
tense
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
medium-paced