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Mahtab’s 2025 Year in Books

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2025 Reading Challenge

2025

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Mahtab Safdari has read 182 books of her goal of 25!

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Mahtab Safdari

Goodreads Author

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Plays

Influences

Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thornton Wilder, ...more

Member Since

October 2012

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playwright, short story writer, translator

автор и переводчик

письменниця та перекладачка

نویسنده و مترجم

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Mahtab Safdari’s books

Average rating: 4.14 · 146 ratings · 28 reviews · 53 distinct works

	دریاچه‌ی تام by Ann Patchett, Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 490,236 ratings — published 2023 — 61 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) 3.91 avg rating — 111,959 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 — 68,519 ratings — published 2024 — 33 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) 3.86 avg rating — 31,091 ratings — published 1897 — 4 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 — 24,247 ratings — published 1900 — 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
	دردآشام by Simon Van Booy (Goodreads Author), Mahtab Safdari (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 21,478 ratings — published 2024 — 16 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 — 17,892 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 4.67 avg rating — 3 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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Grief in Rabbit Hole doesn’t arrive with violins or thunderclaps. It settles into the corners of a house, into the pauses between sentences, into the way a person folds a shirt that no longer has a body to claim it. Lindsay-Abaire refuses melodrama; ...more
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Mahtab’s Quotes

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

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“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: love

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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
― Henrik Ibsen

tags: majority, society

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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