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2026 Reading Challenge

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Mahtab Safdari has read 86 books of her goal of 25!

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Mahtab Safdari

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Literature & Fiction, Plays

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Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Donald Margulies ...more

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October 2012

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playwright, short story writer, translator
автор и переводчик
письменниця та перекладачка
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I keep my friend list very small so I can actually read and appreciate your thoughts. If I don't accept a request, please don't take it personally; I'm just an author hiding in her own quiet cave, reading and writing. Still, we can always talk books in the comments section, if you'd like. 📚 ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 173 ratings · 35 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	دریاچه‌ی تام by Ann Patchett, Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 534,513 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	پاسخ منفی است by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author), Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 127,523 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	میز دونفره؛ نیویورک by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author), Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 75,095 ratings — published 2024 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	دایی وانیا by Anton Chekhov, Annie Baker, Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 32,239 ratings — published 1897 — 580 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	دردآشام by Simon Van Booy (Goodreads Author), Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 28,216 ratings — published 2024 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	سه خواهر by Anton Chekhov, Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 24,990 ratings — published 1900 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مگنولیاهای فولادی by Robert Harling, Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 18,046 ratings — published 1988 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drill Bit 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	بنفش it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	خانواده جهان‌پور it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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داستان نخست از مجموعه‌ی میز دونفره؛ نیویورک

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در واپسین روزهای عصر آخرین تزار، مردی روستایی به نام پوشکین در روستای کوچکی در صدوشصت کیلومتری مسکو زندگی می‌کرد. گرچه پوشکین و همسرش، ایرینا، از موهبت فرزند بی‌بهره بودند، اما در عوض کلبه‌ی دواتاقه‌ی راحتی داشتند و چند هکتار زمین که با شک Read more of this blog post »

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Mahtab Safdari rated a book it was amazing 10/7: 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Jewish tradition of “sitting shiva”—of observing a ritual mourning period following a death—is derived from the Hebrew word sheva, meaning “seven.” In the book of Genesis, Joseph, after burying his father, Jacob, “mourned with a great and very so ...more
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Mahtab Safdari rated a book it was amazing God of Vengeance: A Play by Donald Margulies	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Adapted from Sholem Asch’s controversial 1906 Yiddish classic [גאָט פֿון נקמה in Yiddish, אל נקמות in Hebrew, borrowing the biblical phrase found in Psalm 94:1, "El nekamot Adonai"], Donald Margulies’ God of Vengeance follows Jack Chapman, a man runn ...more
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Mahtab Safdari rated a book it was amazing Jewish Theatre: Tradition in Transition and Intercultural Vistas by Ahuva Belkin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Overture: A Living Commentary Ahuva Belkin’s Jewish Theatre: Tradition in Transition and Intercultural Vistas is far more than a static anthology of academic documentation; it is a vital cartography of the Jewish stage as a site of perpetual disp ...more
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Mahtab Safdari rated a book liked it Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Reading Novel 11, Book 18 is the literary equivalent of taking Paul Auster’s Baumgartner—with all its tender, late-life domestic grief and looping memory—and carelessly throwing it into a washing machine on the maximum spin cycle, choosing the absolu ...more
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Mahtab Safdari made a comment on Yalla Balagan’s review of מאדאם בובארי " Menachem wrote: "I read the book many many years ago, for a high-school class project. I do not have fond memories, I guess I was too young to have a ...more "
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