Featured Official Review: The Buried Secrets of Peonies
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Indeed! Keep up the great work!
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Thank you for taking the time to read my review. I am humbled to be able to help the author bring more attention to this horrific suffering.BeatrixPotter wrote: ↑21 Mar 2018, 09:50 Thanks for your thoughtful review. I have known that Iran has a brutal regime and this book sheds more light on the toll of human suffering in that nation.
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Oh also, Love your screen name!BeatrixPotter wrote: ↑21 Mar 2018, 09:50 Thanks for your thoughtful review. I have known that Iran has a brutal regime and this book sheds more light on the toll of human suffering in that nation.
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Yes, the metaphors were powerful. Did you liken the story of the "wild dog" character to a homeless man? The man who found his brother's dead body? That was the one I had the hardest time putting into a clear storyline in my head.
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I was young too, dtb. I am ashamed to admit that I had zero knowledge of this horror before reading the book. It makes me sad to acknowledge my ignorance.
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Wow, I've just googled Reading Lolita in Tehran and it seems equally powerful. Thank you for likening the two to one another. I would now like to read it to compare the two viewpoints.Libs_Books wrote: ↑21 Mar 2018, 14:22 Thank you for a very powerful and moving review - the book sounds extraordinary, but also quite harrowing. I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran but I'm not sure that I could cope with this.
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Hmmm, I think you could switch out the word "American" in this metaphor for any country with a voting system for their leaders.LoisCHenderson wrote: ↑22 Mar 2018, 01:53 I'm not quite sure what you mean by "one might compare this to the current American presidency executing voters who still supported the losing candidate" ( ). Could you please explain this metaphor to non-Americans, like myself. Many thanks.
Essentially, I'm trying to describe that the person who won the vote would round up the people who voted for the other person and execute them. This could be presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, supreme leaders, emperor etc.
The metaphor certainly can translate to those other than Americans.
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It was certainly eye opening. I think the fact that it's still so much a part of the psyche today speaks to how unraveling it was when it happened.
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