In the last two days I have finished Reading Lolita in Tehran and jumped through a variety of other books in either searching for answers for knitting questions or for words of sympathy when I had none of my own. Finishing the title left me a bit sad and I am happy there was sunshine to lift my mood when the last pages were turned. Nafisi writes near the book's closing (p.325) that "Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me?" So it was perhaps with trying to find the "right" words of sympathy.
This is a book that made me want to revisit titles that were either long ago read or perhaps never studied. Daisy Miller and Madame Bovary have been added to my list.
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