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Hi Jayce,

In the interest of giving everyone an equal opportunity to read and discuss the book together, we will lock any topics that are posted before June for further comments until the start of the month. All locked threads related to the June book selection will be unlocked on June 1 so conversation can commence!

We appreciate both your enthusiasm as well as your respect for fellow members' reading time, and we're looking forward to chatting with you all about this book in June!

Locked and Moved to Jun—Persepolis folder'

EDIT: Unlocked on June 1st

I read this book once before in a Women in Literature class while I was an undergrad. I'm so excited to see how much more I can glean now reading it again almost six years later. Cheers!

No never...but i would like to read it..I think it's very interesting

I've read a few years ago. In College, so in 2008 or 09, I think. I'm loving the re-reading!

I read it a few months ago and really enjoyed it, especially the first part! To me it is a very unique book; it is nothing like any other graphic novels and memoirs I've read before. And I really, really love the style of her art.

Both Marjane's personal story and the story of Iran's transformation to the fundamentalist state it is today are fascinating and there are some really sharp observations! The book is very serious but at times very funny, I remember both crying and laughing out loud when reading it.

I hope that all of you who are reading it for the first time will enjoy it as much as I did!

I read it in college as part of a course where we read "banned books". I loved reading it then and I'm looking forward to reading it again!

I've never read it before, but I just started today & I really enjoy it!!

I've been meaning to read this book for years, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Definitely very different from the Japanese manga I'm used to! :) My uncle was in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm, so there is a very slight personal connection for me.

I started reading this book last year, but life happened, so I am really excited to read it now!

This is my first time again to read some books after 2 years (because of some unfinished stuffs) so I'm excited actually .. I really miss staying up late just to read some books :)

hiii i've read it 4 years ago
i just love this book i also wached the movie
i recommend it its very well done but i'm not sure you can find it online

I've read this book a few years ago and never having read a graphic novel before, I have to say that I truly enjoyed the experience. Her choosing to tell her story in this form, if anything, made it even more compelling, imho. A truly beautiful, moving story set in a part of the world I know so little about. I'm glad Emma chose this as for June's book and looking forward to reading it again.

Hi everybody!
I've read it 2 years ago. I've bought it in a book store near Harvard when I was in a scholarship program to study on United States Institutes.

I had seen the movie before I read the book and I think both versions are awesome. There is a lot to think about the situation of the women in countries with a muslim majority and there is a lot to discuss about woman rights in this book.

Marjane Satrapi is an amazing author and if you like Persepolis I strongly recommend you to take a look on "Poulet aux Prunes" (Chickes with plums), her other comic book that was made into a movie. She has a special sensibility to tell her own stories that made he unique.

I'm eager to start the discussion about this book in the last week of June! :D

I read this for my graphic novel class in college. I absolutely loved it. The use of just black and white is stark and wonderful. The medium just works wonders for the story, which is also fantastic.
One particular scene comes to mind, where Satrapi is thinking of death and nearly the entire panel is black, which isn't done often, so it really enhances the shock and lonely feeling.
All in all, Persepolis makes for a great read, and is one of my favorite graphic novels.

I read it four years ago... I love it, it's beutiful, funny and the stroy is well told, the draws are precious.

I read Persepolis for the first time in 10th grade as part of my Literature class curriculum. It was very enlightening at that age, but I'm particularly excited to read it again and see what I get from it, now, 8 years later. The timing is perfect as I just finished Argo, by Antonio Medez. It'll be interesting to see different sides of stories from the same era.

I read this book this year and I was so happy when I saw that it been choosen for the june book!
The history is really interesting and this book diserve a huge success ! (Sorry for my english because I'm french!)

Hi Em,

I am so glad to hear that you chose this book for this month's read. June happened to be my birth month (it's on the 5th) and Persepolis happened to be one of my favorite books of all time and I even love and admire the author. And it's actually my favorite graphic novel! This book opened my mind more to what is happening in the old and modern society of Middle Eastern countries. It's a thought provoking read. It is humorous, deep and dark at the same time. And it's the kind of book that I will always remember and holds close to my heart. I think everyone should read this.

Xx,
Paola

I read persepolis a few months ago and that history change my life, now i know "if you lost something or someone you can't stop, always keep the faith, because the things will be better"

I read Persepolis last year while writing my undergrad thesis... I was having a hard time to create a dialogue between Western feminist theory and Non-western feminist theory and the book helped me a lot in trying to build both perspectives -- and also made me take some breaks in my thesis writing which was great (I needed it so much)!

I loved the book so much because I kept mulling over how the Western education had influenced Iran and its educational system prior to the Iranian Revolution and how things went from one extreme to the other in such a short time.

Also, I loved how she pictures different moments in both France and Iran that she doesn't fit: clothing, relationships, discussions, etc... You feel like none of the places are for her but if you could get them together as one, she would probably fit in somehow or people would get her opinions or she wouldn't feel out of place...

I received this book for Christmas when i was about 15. My Literature teacher at the time encouraged us to read graphic novels and we had studied some pages from Persepolis.
This book is a "must-read" as it learn many things about history of Iran and Middle East, has a really positive philosophy about live, god and is really REALLY beautiful.
This book was also adapted in an animated movie of great quality: I saw it numerous time and it always make me laught orcry at some time!

This is my first time reading this book, and I'm excited! I have never really read a graphic novel before. Looking forward to the discussions here!

I read this a couple of years ago in a college class, and it was my first graphic novel. I didn't think I would like it as much as I did (I prefer non-graphic works); I found it not only enjoyable to read but eye-opening to a culture/world/time I knew nothing about. Great selection!

I have read Persepolis before the announcement for Our Shared Shelf. It was assigned in my undergrad freshman seminar class called Bookworms. I thought the class was basically going to be a formal book club but it turned out to be more than that by referring us students to novels such as Persepolis that are more than just entertainment. We only read the first half for that class so for Our Shared Shelf I've decided to re-read it and to read the second half as well. Like many in this discussion, Persepolis was also my first introduction to graphic novels.

I was supposed to read this for a Political Science class a few years ago, but I was a bad student and neglected it. >.< I came across it in the library last summer and decided to read it. Autobiographical/memoir type books don't usually draw me in, but I finished it quickly and really enjoyed it. I'm really looking forward to rereading it and discussing it with everyone.

Yes! I read it in high school and I loved it. We watched the oviedo as well. It is what got me started reading graphic novels. It's a great one!

I saw the movie some years ago and am just about through the book now. It has been great.

Yes! I loved it! I learned so much whilst reading it, and its done in such a way that it dissent feel tiresome or like its trying to force an opinion its telling you how it happened, much like Annie Franks diary.

I also had to read it in school for one of my literature classes. It was the first graphic novel that I had ever read and I thought the illustrations were super interesting in comparison to the story she was exploring.

No, I haven't read it before, but I'm glad I did now!

I wish we would have read that in high school, because, as Kanaida said it, it's much like Anne Franks diary, it tells you how it happened. And although I'm living in Austria I think it wouldn't have been bad to read it in high school. It's never bad to read books like these.

If I ever become a German teacher, I shall see that my students read this book. Or at least in English!

I didn't have a chance to read this book, but I checked out the DVD from the library to watch.

Incredible book. Am such a fan of Marjane Satrapi's works and also the film was as good as the novel IMO. I never knew about the plight of Iran and basically Muslim women there before reading this. It's interesting to see how a community and women adapt to Western culture in the previous decades.