I loved Pippi Longstocking too! It's been twenty years since I've read any Pippi books (twenty years? Gah! I'm old!) but I still remember them fondly.
I tried The Book of Lost Things a couple of months ago, and I couldn't finish it. I couldn't even get past the first two chapters, which were crushingly depressing. I kept telling myself "It'll get happier. It MUST get happier", but after a while I decided to quit and preserve what little happiness I had left.
Speaking of things Iranian, have you read Persepolis (http://books.google.com/books?id=x05hPgAACAAJ)? It's a memoir about growing up in Iran, and it's told in comics. If you don't mind the comic format, you might like it.
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Date: 2011-07-15 12:47 am (UTC)I tried The Book of Lost Things a couple of months ago, and I couldn't finish it. I couldn't even get past the first two chapters, which were crushingly depressing. I kept telling myself "It'll get happier. It MUST get happier", but after a while I decided to quit and preserve what little happiness I had left.
Speaking of things Iranian, have you read Persepolis (http://books.google.com/books?id=x05hPgAACAAJ)? It's a memoir about growing up in Iran, and it's told in comics. If you don't mind the comic format, you might like it.