I'd like to say first up: Thank you Oswegowriter.

In complete honesty, I don't think I could have chosen a more perfect graphic novel myself. And I REALLY REALLY mean that.

Oswegowriter sent me 'The Complete Persepolis'!

After unwrapping it from your magnificent wrapping paper, reading the back and then quickly devouring the first 20 pages or so I put it down and honestly had one of those moments where I stopped and kind of marvelled over how lucky I was to get a santa who obviously put a lot of thought into his gifts.

Oswegowriter, you obviously paid attention to my (rambling) likes/dislikes and I really appreciate that. I haven't finished the graphic novel yet (I'm only about a 1/3 of the way through so far -its been a very long working week, and your gift has been my little utopia on my few and far between breaks) but I can already tell you that I am really enjoying it.

To be honest my knowledge of the Iranian revolution was only vague at best, so i'm really enjoying reading out this! But this is about a million times better than reading about something on a wikipedia page, I am learning about an issue that had a huge cultural and social impact from an individuals perspective! Which makes it way more interesting, certainly more personalised, sad, amusing, and ultimately authentic.

Oswegowriter, Thank you for the gift!! You made a great choice (and I loved your personalised letter! You straight away piqued my interest with how passionate you sounded regarding why you had selected that particular novel). I would also like to apologise for taking a week to make this post, unfortunately I had one of those weeks where life was just mentally and physically exhausting. I was genuinely that tired that I didn't feel as though I would do your (frankly pretty damn perfect) gift the justice it deserved. Again, i'm sorry about that. You certainly didn't deserve to be left hanging when you were such an awesome santa! I hope you can forgive me for being a shitty giftee for the week!

One last THANK YOU for the gift! I love it.

Oh and, ps: I already have a friend at work asking to borrow it after I've finished reading it! And then I know my brother will want to borrow it also, so I can safely say that this novel will be loved by many!