Getting to venture out to other parts of the world takes time.

I should read this soon because it was Satrapi's mother's favorite book.

"The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir"| Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378422

She read it when she was sent to a French boarding school in Germany, and she couldn't go on vacation like all of her classmates so she stayed behind and read a lot of books.

(Page 175 of "Persepolis.")

Staying in and reading right now.