1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving birth to a stillborn child and all that follows is heartbreaking, darkly funny, and something everyone on the planet should [...]
Posts Tagged: Marjane Satrapi
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Apr 08
Marjane Satrapi Reading in Twin Cities
Marjane Satrapi, the author and artist behind the phenomenal Persepolis, is going to be giving a talk at Century College in White Bear Lake on Thursday, April 10. I cannot even begin to express how bummed out I am that I can’t go because I have class. Damn. Someone has to go and give a [...]
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Mar 08
Bookclub Bitches 10: Persepolis a book I want to make love to
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For the March edition of Bookclub Bitches FFJ and I read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. We actually read both Persepolis and Persepolis 2. I don’t see how one could read the first one and not want to read the second one immediately.
To say that I loved this graphic memoir is like damning [...]
