As and avid reader of fiction set in the Middle and Far East, this memoir by American Debbie Rodriguez has been on my list of “must reads” since it’s publication in 2007. Somehow, it managed to slip behind the bookshelf so to speak, and I haven’t actually read it until two years later. But despite [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Deborah Rodriguez-Kabul Beauty School
Posted in NonFiction, tagged Afghanistan, Memoir, Middle East, Women's Rights on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
e.e. Cummings: “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond”
Posted in Poetry, tagged American Literature, Poetry on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently taking an American Literature class, which spans the very late 19th century into the 1980′s. It’s probably the most boring English class I have had the pleasure of taking.. It’s not necessarily the subject matter(I’ll admit I tend to enjoy Brit Lit much more) but the professor is a horrid lecturer. Nevertheless, on [...]
