Category: Book Reviews
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Life as a Middle Eastern Woman in Literature
Last year, I read The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, and this year, I read A Thousand Splendid Suns and Persepolis. These literary works have given me a window into the lives of women who lived in middle eastern countries around the late 20th century. In the first book I mentioned, journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon recounts…
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Books I Read in 2020
As we embark on a new year starting today, it’s fun to look back on what we accomplished over the last year. In this case, I want to reflect on my reading in 2020 and see how many books I got through and what kind I gravitated to the most. Here’s the books I read…
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The 3 Best Nonfiction Books I Read in 2020 (So Far)
As an English major, I read many classics in college from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first couple years after graduation, I was a book snob who literally only read classics. I’m still a classics lover–just finished Eliot’s Middlemarch–but I got turned on to nonfiction last year when I started participating in…
Retrospective Lily 