READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi: This was a follow-up to my reading Lolita for the first time last summer, and I wish I’d checked it out immediately instead of a year later, because Nafisi’s take on Nabokov was my favorite part of the book. Overall, this was a moving, powerful, and revelatory memoir, but I’ll cop to feeling that it was also slightly scattered and draggy in spots. I won’t be rereading it, but I’m glad I read it once.