Amanda's review
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
yeah, i read this on public transportation too. You get so engrossed, there's the danger of missing your stop!
Amanda's review
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Amanda's review
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comics-graphic-novels
I read this over a couple of days last week. It's excellent. Read both.
I was reading it at lunch at this little square with a ton of benches on 8th Avenue and 56th Street. I was totally lost in the book and actually surprised to look up and realize I was in the middle of Midtown. Then I had a half hour to kill before meeting someone for dinner after work, and returned to the same spot to read. A middle-aged man next to me asked if I'd read the first one and we started talking about the books and graphic novels. He wanted to know if Persepolis would be good for high school students because he teaches a university class to teach people how to teach high schoolers. Instead of a universal book list, each teacher-student is assigned six or so books to read, evaluate, and report on so that the class as a whole has a broader variety of books to draw from. So he hadn't had a chance to read Persepolis himself, but I encouraged him to do so, of course. It was a refreshing chang...more
I was reading it at lunch at this little square with a ton of benches on 8th Avenue and 56th Street. I was totally lost in the book and actually surprised to look up and realize I was in the middle of Midtown. Then I had a half hour to kill before meeting someone for dinner after work, and returned to the same spot to read. A middle-aged man next to me asked if I'd read the first one and we started talking about the books and graphic novels. He wanted to know if Persepolis would be good for high school students because he teaches a university class to teach people how to teach high schoolers. Instead of a universal book list, each teacher-student is assigned six or so books to read, evaluate, and report on so that the class as a whole has a broader variety of books to draw from. So he hadn't had a chance to read Persepolis himself, but I encouraged him to do so, of course. It was a refreshing chang...more
yeah, i read this on public transportation too. You get so engrossed, there's the danger of missing your stop!