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In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
It's now after 9 PM on Sunday here in Japan and the read-a-thon has officially ended. Wow! The time just flew by! I kind of gave up on reading during the last couple of hours and spent the time bloghopping instead. Along with a dinner break. So I didn't quite make my goal of 1000 pages but I had fun all the same, and it was great to see so many people reading together this weekend. Total Time Spent...
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Final Cut (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Everytime I get a new film-related assignment, I use it as an excuse to buy more DVDs and film books. This time round I figured I'd better scour my own collection first. When searching my collection for films directed by women that I currently own, this is all I came up with: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher Away From Her, Sarah Polley Bend it Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha Bridget Jones's Diary, Sharon Maguire...
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The Fate of the Artist (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
O ne or two of the four parts of Persepolis (2000-2003) have been around the house before, when Hayley Campbell still lived at home, and I dipped into them while rushing from one thing to the next. They were full of very attractive little cartoon strip anecdotes from a faraway place and Marjane Satrapi is also a formidable personality . I really should have stopped and paid more attention, because...
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
As usual, note that each of the award ceremonies tend to have their own regulations for what can be included and when, so there are plenty of discrepancies in regard to official release year, etc. Also, I had some difficulty finding the recipients of many of the national industry awards, so forgive me for leaving out some of the countries that were listed for 2006. Notice that this was one of the rare...
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In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I had a slow start to the Non-Fiction Five Challenge , which ran for five months starting in May, as I didn't actually read any non-fiction until August, but I did manage to complete five books by the end of September. Four of those were on my original list of possibilities and are all ones I'd been wanting to read for some time. With the exception of Nick Hornby's essays on reading, these were primarily...
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Long considered an extension of a world populated by characters with capes, superpowers, and bad nicknames, the graphic novel has suddenly become the go-to vehicle for recounting history. It could be a welcome resource, considering the potential changes in America’s educational curriculum . But don’t look for any capes in these books. Already one of the most-anticipated books of the year,...
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
The latest thing raging around the blogs is the Egyptian Islamic scholar calling for death penalty over "virginity-faking" device, remindeds of one of the stories from Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi. One of her aunts just got married but wasn't a virgin. Her grandma told her to take a razor blade and lightly cut herself in the thigh during sex and the blood would convince her husband. Unfortunately,...
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Phillyist (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Still from the film by Sony Pictures Classics Last Wednesday night, the Free Library held its first major event since the resolution of the budget crisis . When Mayor Nutter arrived to introduce Marjane Satrapi , the author of 2010's One Book, One Philadelphia choice The Complete Persepolis , he was met with loud applause. He opened with a joking commentary of the fickle nature of politics: "What...
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Phillyist (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
At the Phillyist, we love anything that gets people reading books, the real kind that you hold in your hands. There's nothing like the heft of a book with an actual cover to make you feel like part of something larger. In fact, we may have looked like a stalker on occasion when really all we wanted to see was what book you were reading. We love that books open up the possibility to make a connection...
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Culture Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
So, I'm probably one of the few people out there who really didn't like Persepolis. This might have something to do with the fact that I had read Maus not that long before, and I just wasn't ready to acknowledge the genius of anyone else's graphic novel autobiography. I dunno. Maybe I'll give it another try. But my friend Kasia and her husband Krzyś came to visit me this weekend and brought me...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
"Philadelphians will have the chance to think, discuss, and argue all things Iranian, thanks to Iranian-French author Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, The Complete Persepolis, which will be announced today as the selection for the 2010 One Book, One Philadelphia."...
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In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
This week I finished reading Be With You by Takuji Ichikawa and I have to admit I was a little disappointed with it. It was a huge best-seller in Japan and has been made into a movie, a TV series, and even a manga. I'm curious how they filmed it so I might try to see the film sometime and see if that alters my perception of the story at all. Still, it was a quick read and a nice way to pass the time...
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Foma* (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Books Bought Venus On The Half Shell by Kilgore Trout One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald Dress Her In Indigo by John D. MacDonald Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine by Tom Wolfe Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson What's So Funny by Donald Westlake Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics by Maurice...
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KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
I hate summer reading, so I can sympathize with every single incoming freshman that had to read "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. My hatred of summer reading aside, after seeing my freshman friends tote it around and finding the bookstore well-stocked with it, I was curious to know what the freshmen were going through this semester.
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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
I am scheduled to teach, for the first time, a class in Asian American Literature starting next month, and I am wondering if people here might have some thoughts on a question that I have been asking myself in terms of what should be on the reading list. I would like to include Marjane Satrapi’s [...]
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