Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. I was moved and impressed by these graphic novels about growing up during the Iranian revolution.
Anna Maclean, Louisa and the Missing Heiress. A rather lightweight mystery story set in 1850s Boston in which Louisa May Alcott is the detective.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Writing a Woman’s Life. 
A woman is not a man. Sounds obvious, but when a woman achieves something a man might have achieved — written a novel, for example — it must be because she is less than a “woman”.
Homer, The Iliad. We experience War, with its heroism and cruelty, and the interference of the gods. I have posted on The Iliad: How They Die and The Iliad: Fate.
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone. This is an excellent medical novel with wonderful characters, but not for the squeamish. I finished it the night before the moving cataclysm and could not find it for several days. Here is a scan of its somewhat battered cover.
September has been an unusually lean reading month, although any month in which one completes The Iliad is memorable for that. We have been engaged in moving out of our house, in which we have lived happily but somewhat messily for 32 years. As a non materialistic person, how did I accumulate so much stuff! After days of packing and unpacking boxes we are not through yet.
Saw you on ANZLitLovers blog and thought I’d pop over. Nice blog. I’ve read Cutting for stone. Liked the story though it’s not among my ver top books of the year. I have the Carolyn Heilbrun book in my TBR but haven’t got to it yet! Btw, isn’t she also Amanda Cross? Or, is my memory failing me?
Yes she is (was) Amanda Cross. The Amanda Cross books are academic mysteries. The scene and politics are interesting, but the mystery is usually not so compelling. Heilbrun committed suicide while supposedly in good health because she did not want to become old. I am older than she ever got to be and I say she gave up too soon and unnecessarily.
Yes, I thought so. I read and enjoyed one Amanda Cross – for the setting! I don’t really read mysteries so that issue didn’t bother me! I think I heard about that suicide but had certainly forgotten it. I certainly wouldn’t be committing suicide for that reason. Were I very old and life had become too hard – say, blind AND deaf then who knows, I might consider it. But not before that. Dementia too … But I’d not do it until I was really “demented” and then I’d probably be too demented to do it!