book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
This short post it to tell you guys that for a while, I probably won't be available on the blog. That means there won't be any special posts or anything but the currently scheduled reviews, and I might be slow to respond to comments.
Why?
Because as of tomorrow morning, I'm part of the army. That's right, I'm enlisting. Here, where I live, we have mandatory army services. It's supposed to happen at eighteen (two years for girls, three for boys) but I furthered my education and I'm joining the service only now, at twenty.
A lot of stuff happened with my studies, actually, and even though I was designed to go to a certain area, I'm not. So I have no idea what I'm going to do. That terrifies me. I'm also excited - this is a right of passage here, and it's also a chance to give back to my country.
But regardless, I have it on good authority that while at boot camp, I won't have time to deal with the blog. And I have no idea how long I'll be in boot camp - it could be somewhere between two months to two weeks, from what I understand.
I'll know more tomorrow, but tomorrow I will not be able to write anything.
So, the blog is going to be kind of empty for a while.
Why?
Because as of tomorrow morning, I'm part of the army. That's right, I'm enlisting. Here, where I live, we have mandatory army services. It's supposed to happen at eighteen (two years for girls, three for boys) but I furthered my education and I'm joining the service only now, at twenty.
A lot of stuff happened with my studies, actually, and even though I was designed to go to a certain area, I'm not. So I have no idea what I'm going to do. That terrifies me. I'm also excited - this is a right of passage here, and it's also a chance to give back to my country.
But regardless, I have it on good authority that while at boot camp, I won't have time to deal with the blog. And I have no idea how long I'll be in boot camp - it could be somewhere between two months to two weeks, from what I understand.
I'll know more tomorrow, but tomorrow I will not be able to write anything.
So, the blog is going to be kind of empty for a while.
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