Iranian Writer Azar Nafisi wrote a very poignant memoir, Things I've Been Silent About, to make sense of her parents, especially her mother.

I love the book very much. It had me thinking about my parents and also the relationship between a person with his/her country.

And it seems it's so often the government betrayed it's own people, and how do we face the disillusionment after a Revolution?

Anyway, I'm happy to announce that I finished another book under the Women Unbound Challenge, Yahooooo!!

Roshi said something to me the other day that I like," (Leonard) Cohen told me just before I left. 'The older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love that you need.'-- Pico Iyer

The great thing about reading is one can relates his/her experience or opinion with the author. When I devoured the memoir Walking through Fire by the Egytian Feminist Writer Nawal El Saadawi, I couldn't help but nodding my head in agreement with most of the thing she had shared in her book.

This is a great book to spend time with, I was immediately sucked in the world of Nawal El Saadawi since I read the first line.

While I read the book, I felt as if I have look into her eyes and have known her. I can relate to her experience and thoughts, anger and sadness. She feels strongly about women's position in her society and constantly feel helpless for couldn't do more to establish a safer place for women to live in. I often have that anger with me as well.

Her words touch me deeply, and tears often well up in my eyes.

It's been ages since my last posting.