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Book Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Along with what other readers have said, I too kept losing interest in this book. It had so much literary criticism on books I either have not read, or don't remember well from long ago.
When she did focus on her life and the lives of her students, it captivated me. Then she'd break off again and i'd drop out. I wanted to hear her story, not a heavy dissection of literature,