book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
Hey y'all,
I bet you've all been wondering where I've been, if you've followed me for a long time. If you haven't followed us for a long time, chances are you haven't even met me yet. I've been gone for a long time. I real long time... My last post was in September of last year. And I feel bad about that.
Not only did I let down my co-blogger, whose been singlehandedly running this blog for months (without complaint), I let down you guys. Our readers. I left with out a single word to any of you not even a "sayonara, buddy, I'll see you soon".
The plan was not to leave forever, or even this long. But my co-blogger and I had agreed that it would be best for me to just take a step back. Smell the daisies, have some free time.
And then it became, well damn I've been gone for six months and still don't have the desire to blog or read.
It became I work 45 hours a week. It became I have a boyfriend that I want to spend all my time with. It became I'm never home. It became way bigger than it was ever intended to be and I'm sorry about that.
I feel like I abandoned you.
All of you.
But I didn't feel the desire to read or the desire to blog and books weren't even making me that happy anymore. But lately...it's been looking up. Just recently I started reading again and this week I just really got the urge to set down and write a post. I wanna blog again.
But I also wanna apologize to every one of you...for not being here, for abandoning you, for kind of losing myself for a little while. These past months have been rough. Being an adult is nothing like you would expect it to be. There are many things I'd like to vent about, but I'll just leave at this : growing up is tough. It takes some getting used to and I'd like to go back to when everything was less complicated, but I can't. All I can do is learn how to handle it.
So, sorry guys. I hope you'll forgive me.
Love,
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