24 Books to Christmas – Day 15


24 Books to Christmas

Today I’m continuing on with another recommendation of a poignant and informative graphic novel called Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.  Told in 4 books, Persepolis was separated into 2 books:  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, books 1 and 2 and Persepolis:  The Story of a Return, books 3 and 4.  I decided to read The […]

December 15, 2019

24. Embroideries


Book Reviews

I  couldn’t wait to get my hands on another Marjane Satrapi graphic novel.  So while browsing Amazon.fr looking for EFL books for a class I ran across Embroideries.  I pressed add and in my basket it went.  When I received the book, the quote on the back cover that struck me was “By turns bawdy […]

July 13, 2012

22. Persepolis


Book Reviews

A while back I watched a snippet of Persepolis with my family.  I immediately stopped when I realized it was written originally as a graphic novel.  I always prefer reading the book before seeing the movie.  This is a first for me reading a graphic novel and I got lucky and picked it up at […]

July 3, 2012