Persepolis

 1/2/23

We are starting this year strong with another book. This is a historical graphic novel. I think if we were allowed to have these in history class instead of thick dry textbooks, I would have done better. I feel like I learn so much more about history and different cultures by reading historical graphic novels. The last one I read was the Maus series and I devoured that. I found it so fascinating and I'm finding this one just as fascinating. I'm probably not going to be able to give this a good rating just because it is so short, but I do love the concept. This graphic novel takes place is Islam or Israel and it is telling the political struggles it went through in the 1970s and 1980s. The author did a good job explaining how it affected her in a not so forward way. Because politics affects everyone, even children. I can't wait to read more of this and learn even more about a culture I know nothing about.

1/3/23

I finished my first book of the year. This book took me a little long that I expected. It probably is due to all the breaks I had to take while reading this. Reading about someone's experience during a war is a little heavy. But I was glad to have learned about some of the struggles that the character/author had to face while growing up during such a tough time. The book ends with author leaving home to live safely in a different country. I would like to know if they were ever reunited with their family or did they suffer more in the war. How this ended made me want to know more. I should see if there is a second book to this or not. I just found it to be so interesting and I learned so much that we never learn in schools. But sadly the book only got three stars because even though I enjoyed it, there were still some things that I didn't like. I didn't like the end, which I mentioned before. I wanted to know more about our main character and to see what her life was like in a country away from her home. Did she reunite with her family? Or, did she get terrible news about them? I need answers.