tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post9133656196643796064..comments2024-03-08T03:18:48.591-05:00Comments on Lotus Reads: Iran Awakening: From Prison to Peace Prize: One Woman's Struggle at the Crossroads of History by Shirin EbadiLotus Readshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-10975975340504791782007-07-24T01:14:00.000-04:002007-07-24T01:14:00.000-04:00Hi Lotus!.. I finally found this book here in Sing...Hi Lotus!.. I finally found this book here in Singapore! am half way thru.. will talk to you once over with it...NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05405599134905559212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-73435614787087393502007-02-21T07:12:00.000-05:002007-02-21T07:12:00.000-05:00Pandora, I'm so excited to see you here! It's bee...Pandora, I'm so excited to see you here! It's been such a long time. How do I access your blog? Or do you have an e-mail I can reach you at? I so want to keep in touch with you!Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-35463563165987729342007-02-19T10:17:00.000-05:002007-02-19T10:17:00.000-05:00eeek! i would love to attend the lit. festival in ...eeek! i would love to attend the lit. festival in chicago..how exciting!<BR/><BR/>I have been wanting to read that book since a while now. One of the first novels that I read by an Irani writer was Lipstick Jihad (have you read it?) and I loved it. been hooked onto Irani films and books since the. <BR/>Unfortunately, things have been so crazy busy for me, I really haven't had much time to read *gasp*<BR/>its my thesis - its taking up way too much time! <BR/>I love how you're reviewing books!amnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01327638669907224723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-29339634384978331752007-02-02T18:26:00.000-05:002007-02-02T18:26:00.000-05:00Neda I was so hoping you could have joined in the...<b>Neda</b> I was so hoping you could have joined in the discussions of the book, I would have valued your input a lot. I will ask Sylvia to send the book back to me after she finishes reading it and when hub comes to Bombay next, I can ask him to mail it to you. Does that sound ok?<br /><br /><b>Nocturne</b> We will go have a pedicure together - a girl's afternoon out!<br /><br /><b>Paris-Parfait</b> Lovely to see you and thanks!Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-79171221269529324372007-02-02T16:25:00.000-05:002007-02-02T16:25:00.000-05:00A great review of a really fascinating book. I've ...A great review of a really fascinating book. I've seen her interviewed a few times in Europe - fascinating woman.paris parfaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05457437124988976587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-89403566132066104642007-01-30T02:35:00.000-05:002007-01-30T02:35:00.000-05:00yes, right, here's the salt - rub it in good. :) h...yes, right, here's the salt - rub it in good. :) have a great trip and have a ton of fun. i'd settle for a pedicure - my feet are killing me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-78828926203792972432007-01-29T11:24:00.000-05:002007-01-29T11:24:00.000-05:00Hi Lotus!
first of all, i must admit, i'm feeling...Hi Lotus!<br /><br />first of all, i must admit, i'm feeling jealous of you, for this book is also one i have been hopelessly searching for in the one large book store around (crossword)... may i request you to send it to me whenever other friends are thru with it? I would be more than happy to send you anything you may wish to have from Bombay.. <br /><br />Your review was simple and nice,... though i wished it was more elaborated... :)<br /><br />Thanks for sharing this..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-34204530233062234442007-01-28T17:50:00.000-05:002007-01-28T17:50:00.000-05:00Hi da Mommy and welcome! I really don't know what ...Hi <b>da Mommy</b> and welcome! I really don't know what I would have done in a situation such as the one that faced Iranians during the revolution. My guess is that I would moved to safer, more welcoming pastures, especially if I had children.<br /><br />Thank you for the kind words <b>carra</b>, I'm excited about your blog too!<br /><br />Ooops, I just did it again, sweet <b>nocturne</b> sorry! :) Actually, a vacation of sorts might be coming up. I want to go to the South-Asian Lit. Festival in Chicago in April. Wanna come?Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-71079726603928079582007-01-28T17:18:00.000-05:002007-01-28T17:18:00.000-05:00sigh. wonderful review. hey, when are you going to...sigh. wonderful review. hey, when are you going to take a vacation??? you're making the rest of us look bad, you know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-76754496836140312912007-01-28T06:54:00.000-05:002007-01-28T06:54:00.000-05:00I will have to visit amazon.com to find this book ...I will have to visit amazon.com to find this book it really sounds too interesting not to read it. I will go on and browse through your blog it's marvelous!CGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17555431785204713112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-11820368282105042252007-01-28T01:52:00.000-05:002007-01-28T01:52:00.000-05:00wow, what a gutsy lady! I do think it is alot for...wow, what a gutsy lady! I do think it is alot for her to judge other people's hearts and actions the way she did. As someone said earlier, different people have different perspectives on things...not everyone has the same calling or even the same drive to fight something. Hence fight or FLIGHT. Some people must flight I think. I'm a fighter myself.Da Mommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03609775887852424331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-8199379029965902492007-01-26T22:07:00.000-05:002007-01-26T22:07:00.000-05:00Hello Violain You are quite welcome, but honestly...Hello <b>Violain</b> You are quite welcome, but honestly, I feel grateful you posted on it - it was a treat to read a first person account on Turkey, I enjoyed it immensely.<br /><br />Thank you for the headsup on "Beyond the Oxus". Once the challenges are over, I plan to sink my teeth into books on the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. There's been so much change in those regions, I really need to catch up on what's been happening there and why. Thank you very much for the recommendation!Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-33447675638502255922007-01-26T14:37:00.000-05:002007-01-26T14:37:00.000-05:00Thanks for your nice comments on my Istanbul diary...Thanks for your nice comments on my Istanbul diary. It was a fantastic weekend!<br /><br />It's a long time since I read Seth's 'Equal Music'. I remember loving it, partly because I am deeply into that kind of music, too. Otherwise I cannot remember a great deal about it.<br /><br />There's a great book about Central Asia and the history of the last 80 years, by Monica Whitlock 'Beyond the Oxus'. A fantastic history of people of countries created by strokes of pens, and in the case of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, fleeing across the border river in both directions at different times. I see she has written another book on the same topic since.violainvilniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073951177204412320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-29888374196621578802007-01-26T07:08:00.000-05:002007-01-26T07:08:00.000-05:00Nyssaneala I so relate! Before I joined the ER a...<b>Nyssaneala</b> I so relate! Before I joined the ER as a volunteer I would devour books in the medical or science genre, but oft late I find that they don't excite me anymore.<br /><br /><b>Chitts</b> I just had the opportunity to pay you a longer visit and I'm so glad I did! I've put "Night" at the top of my list and will pounce on the opportunity to read it. You're doing a great job with your blog, thanks so much for pointing me to it!Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-45152445933793703482007-01-25T20:03:00.000-05:002007-01-25T20:03:00.000-05:00Lotus,
Thanks for stopping by!! Believe it or not...Lotus,<br /> Thanks for stopping by!! Believe it or not, I got so inspired by your blog that I wanted to create my own and I'd feel honored if you bookmark me :) I can't wait to read your comments on my blog.<br />ChittsHappy Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05170475118277864013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-43017803312226943642007-01-25T19:08:00.000-05:002007-01-25T19:08:00.000-05:00Actually, I haven't read either yet, although I've...Actually, I haven't read either yet, although I've been meaning too. I've just gone through an almost year long phase of not being able to read anything remotely connected to my job (unless I had to read it for work, of course!). Sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming!Nyssanealahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01880042178848084407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-20532902254170438342007-01-25T17:14:00.000-05:002007-01-25T17:14:00.000-05:00Hi, ramya Great to see you here! Oh, yes, do go ...Hi, <b>ramya</b> Great to see you here! Oh, yes, do go to the Kiran Desai reading, she's always a lot of fun. I saw her read at the Internationa Festival of Authors here in Toronto and I loved every minute of it. I can't wait for you to read "Sacred Games", it's getting rave reviews.<br /><br />Hi <b>Chitts!</b> What a wonderful thing to say, thank you!!! I took a quick peek at your blog "Book Closet" and just drooled at all those wonderful book reviews. I am going to come back for a much longer visit. Going to bookmark you, too, if that's OK. Again, thanks for the visit and the nice comment!<br /><br /><b>violain</b> A big welcome and thank you so much for the information! Truth be told, I know very little about Tajikistan or the Tajiks, but it was cool to find out that Tajik is close to Farsi. Must to be lovely to listen to. You've got me interested in reading up more on their (the Tajiks) history. Thanks very much! THanks also for pointing me to the Vikram Seth review - I'll be over soon.<br /><br /><b>Nyssaneala</b> It's awesome what you do! I have read about organizations like yours and I know you do a huge amount of work to resettle the refugees and very successfully too. I used to know someone who volunteered as a host for newcomers and refugees in Chicago and I was so impressed by what she did I vowed to register for a similar program here in Toronto, but, being the queen of procrastination, I haven't done it yet. Two books I have bought and yet to read: "Human Cargo" by Caroline Moorehead and "Lost Boys of Sudan". I'm sure you've read both.<br /><br /><b>Angela</b> That's exactly right! The elite were kicked around after the regime change and that's why so many of them opted to leave Iran.Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-24878129054672270542007-01-25T14:48:00.000-05:002007-01-25T14:48:00.000-05:00Sounds like a very chilling read. What an awful t...Sounds like a very chilling read. What an awful thing to happen-to be a clerk where one once was a judge. It would be like cleaning toilets in a mansion you once owned.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08517218658953992674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-54530374903718518902007-01-25T14:24:00.000-05:002007-01-25T14:24:00.000-05:00When I was in Australia, I worked for a small NGO ...When I was in Australia, I worked for a small NGO that helped community-based asylum seekers that have applied for a refugee protection visa. <br /><br />Here in the US., I work for a refugee resettlement agency that helps refugees in their first year after arrival (we are one of the orgs that meets them when they step off the plane in whatever city they have been resettled in). We receive state and federal funding, but are not a gov. agency. Right now, that largely consists of refugees from Somalia, Sudan, and Meshkatian Turks. Most of the Iranians I met and worked with was in Australia.Nyssanealahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01880042178848084407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-10035081063130422452007-01-25T14:09:00.000-05:002007-01-25T14:09:00.000-05:00Not entirely convinced that Iran is the only place...Not entirely convinced that Iran is the only place where 'Persians' hang out....Tajikistan, just up the road north east has Tajik as its state language (not so you'd notice since many documents in that poor country are in Russian). Tajik is very close to Farsi, and written either in Farsi script (beautiful) or cyrillic (ie Russian). The Tajiks consider themselves very linked to the Persians (though looking at them, with faces from Turkic to Chinese, and ditto north to south, they are the result of some Soviet getting out a map and drawing some borders around a fictional nation).<br /><br />Re Vikram Seth, read my review at http://violainvilnius.blogspot.com/search?q=seth. It comes and goes a bit; mixture of trivia, deep thinking and interesting and funny stuff! Not one of his best books, I fear.violainvilniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073951177204412320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-75487798459252061062007-01-25T13:18:00.000-05:002007-01-25T13:18:00.000-05:00Lotus,
You got me intrigued with that wonderful r...Lotus,<br /> You got me intrigued with that wonderful review!! I've already added this to my TBR pile.. I love visiting your blog and I check it more often than I check my emails :) <br />Keep up the good work!<br />ChittsHappy Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05170475118277864013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-81155786510729848782007-01-25T11:33:00.000-05:002007-01-25T11:33:00.000-05:00hey,
just as i was getting a wee-bit green from ...hey, <br /><br />just as i was getting a wee-bit green from your impending meeting with Vikram chandra, i discover kiran desai is going to be doing a reading in Chennai monday! now, isnt that exciting!<br />I think i'll play sacred games after i learn about the inheritance of loss... I've been keeping the book for months now... gotta read it fore monday...<br /><br />cheers!<br />ramyaHouseownerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10114805826956961985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-68512625328803940482007-01-25T11:31:00.000-05:002007-01-25T11:31:00.000-05:00hey,
just as i was getting a wee-bit green from ...hey, <br /><br />just as i was getting a wee-bit green from your impending meeting with Vikram chandra, i discover kiran desai is going to be doing a reading in Chennai monday! That is really exciting!<br /><br />cheers!<br />ramyaHouseownerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10114805826956961985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-17947364502035067672007-01-24T19:23:00.000-05:002007-01-24T19:23:00.000-05:00hi Terri Welcome! I'm so happy to have you here! ...hi <b>Terri</b> Welcome! I'm so happy to have you here! I am Indian (Punjabi, I believe our ancestors were from Balochistan), but I don't blame you for thinking otherwise! Thank you for reading and enjoying my posts on India - did you grow up there too? Do you have long to wait before your kids are in college? :)<br /><br />Hi<b>Sugarlips</b> I used to do that, too (read several books at one time), but for some reason I can't seem to do it anymore. lol<br /><br />Hi, <b>jkr</b> Welcome! No, we don't know each other, I was so sure you were someone else! :)) The hospital I'm at is a small, local one so the ER isn't anything like the big city hospitals and we often have quiet periods which the staff use to catch up on paperwork (since I'm a volunteer and have no paperwork,I choose to read!). We seem to have similar tastes in reading. I'm glad you're in the process of setting up a blog....I look forward to reading your posts.Lotus Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081192215823615529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12738985.post-40597658032076358162007-01-24T19:04:00.000-05:002007-01-24T19:04:00.000-05:00Hi there - I'm anon, don't think we know each othe...Hi there - I'm anon, don't think we know each other (??). You work in the ER and you sneak in some reading - I'm very impressed!! BTW - I read Climbing the Mango Trees and Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow and really liked both. In fact, I made Madhur's kheema last night - I felt like I was in Kanpur with her family!Rupahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06782484503453208685noreply@blogger.com