Thank you to Chris who encouraged me to enter LibaryThing.
Since I read so much I did not want to enter a new world of books.
I have created my Library: http://www.librarything.com/profile/sara11 It will be interesting for me to see if my curiosity gets me to peep at some of the fans of the books I have selected initially.
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Sara, I've had my eye on this one for a while now. I haven't read any real 'stories' since I finished studying - can't seem to get my head around anything but research!
However, I'm picking up great reading tips from everyone's Library Thing catalogues and really look forward to getting back into recreational reading.
Rebecca,
You can see my comments, so far, about Orlando Figes in my Library Thing.
I am raving about him to anyone who listens. I am reading his book "A People's Tragedy" about the Russian Revolution. Prof. Figes has used primary sources and never seen before archival records for his views on the catastrophic events of that period, which changed the world.
Re "Reading Lolita in Tehran", there is an item in the N Y Times today about university students protesting about the appointment of a cleric as president of a university. Academics have left or have been pushed out in protest. This is exactly the regime that the book is set in, half a generation ago! I absolutley adored the book. I found about myself, and for myself, what literature can do.
The author teaches about Nabokov, F Scott Fitxgerald - "The Great Gatsby" and other selected authors at a university in Tehran. She is gradually shut out, for refusing to wear the proscribed garments following the Khomeni revolution. The irony is that her family had fled the Shah era to come back joyfully to celebrate the freedoms of the revolution.
She then teachers literature to her postgraduate students in her home. There are so many things to say about this book, but principally it is about principles and literature. A reader constantly questions his or her own standards and principles as the events unfold.
If you pick up a book to get you back to reading for pleasure, this is one to satisfy/gratify/stimulate, in every sense.
PS I tried to post this directly on your blog, but there was a system error.
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