Also got invited to join a Goodreads group called “Underground Thought” by someone in Iran who “friended” me (I don’t know what you call it for Goodreads).  I like the title so decided to check it out.  The first post was in Arabic.  I plugged it into Google translator and this is a sample of what I got:

] اولین base: it’s the principle of time, the ghosts of بی خبری …. By Sraghtan می آیند broke Ha der Webster sleep, روزها der گوشه taking, warned باشید’s New آنها and even سایه These Ra جدی بگیرید. چرا که Roozbarha smuggled Annan Ra دیدار می below and your New NBA خبرید.

So I’m going to hold off joining the group.  I kind of want to know what they’re discussing.  I do find the books he reads interesting (the ones I recognize), and have  learned about authors I didn’t know existed (like Abdolkarim Soroush) so it’s all good.

Geez, it just occurred to me that the post was probably in farsi, not arabic.  Duh.  What an American I am.  Maybe I’ll try that translator again…