Reading Lolita in Tehran 1

I am reading a book called Reading Lolita in Tehran. The book is about a teacher in Iran who taught at the university, but then the university became too strict. It worried too much about the appearance and presence of the Iranian women than the education they were getting. The teacher could not take it anymore and resigned. She proposed the idea of having a secret class at her house with 8 of her students to discuss literature.
This book reminds me a lot of All the Pretty Horses. Unfortuanately, like All the Pretty Horses, the author does not use qutation marks either. She is worse however, because she does not start new paragraphs when someone new is speaking, it is all in one paragraph. I found a couple of quotes I enjoyed throughout the book. One was about losing someone, "Yet my tale would be incomplete without those who could not or did not remain with us; their absences persist, like an acute pain that seems to have no physical source" (Nafisi 5). I really like this quote because it resembles the thought that losing someone is hard, they will always be there playing a small role in your everyday lives, because of the pain that they have caused. This quote ties in with All the Pretty Horses, when John Grady Cole and Rawlins hear Blevins get shot. Even though they did not like Blevins and he caused them a lot of trouble, they were still very sad about his death. Especially Rawlins, the one that hated him the most, had the most sympathy for Blevins. Another quote I found that I liked was, "How well could one teach when the main concern of university officials was not the quality of one's work but the color of one's lips, the subversive potential of a single strand of hair?" (Nafisi 11). This book reminds me of how Alejandra's grandma (blanking on her name) always strived for the best for Alejandra. She did not care exactly how Alejandra came about things, as long as they were proper and did not disrupt her reputation. That was the only thing she was fixed upon, and didn't really care too much about how Alejandra felt toward different things, especially John Grady Cole.
This book seems very interesting and I am curious to read on and see how Nassrin supposedly does not make it through the journey with the rest of the secret group!