Thursday, June 10, 2010
Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
I finished my literatures circle book, The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat a long time ago but completely forgot to blog! It was an amazing read. It was actually a memoir because Marina was a political prisoner when she was a teen, not much older than I am now. It was heart wrenching and amazing and hard to put down. So many great adjectives can be used to describe this book. I loved it. My mom actually read it last year when my brother read it for his english class' literature circles. She cried after finishing it in two hours and really loved it. The fact that the book is nonfiction and all the events Marina had to go through really connected me to the memoir. I think that in any circumstance when a book is relateable and real it makes the whole reading experience so much more riveting and interesting. Every chapter made reading it so much better. From flashbacks to tragedies to disasters, the book kept me interested. Also, I really loved how I read it as a literature circles book because I was able to communicate with other people in my group and really discuss the text and evaluate certain things. Though our group meetings weren't very long it was really good getting feedback from people who were really going through the same experience as yourself. I recommend this book to anyone! It's so incredibly good. A parent could like it, a teenager could like it, male or female: this book is incredible for any reader.
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