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Up next on audio. This might make a good candidate for #HiddenHistory @Librarybelle

None of the books that I read wholly within March were noteworthy, so the tagged book is one of the favorites I finished in March. I need to get a copy so I have a reference of artists that I want to treasure hunt in museums.

I did also greatly enjoy Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

My #MonthlyNonfiction choice for April has been on my TBR forever!

What will everyone else be reading?

I found this book about the six women rulers of Egypt very interesting, although at some times it felt a little tilted rather than neutral fact.
It, of course, covered the more well-known women like Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra, but I really enjoyed learning about the lesser known women rulers: Merneith, Neferusobek, and Tawisret.

This book is amazing! Picture books are a great opportunity for talking about injustice, but few of them bring up the topic of murder. This is really a middle grade book. The illustrations are amazing. But I love seeing the kids faces when I tell them that when I wake a little girl, I was not allowed to wear pants at school, and I'm not even that old! I also describe myself as having brown hair, so...

Currently reading…
💪🏼 There have been some really good excerpts in Women‘s Lives so I‘m adding more authors like Janet Frame to the wishlist, & moving Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard to the top of my stack.

📕 Here‘s another Phyllis Rose shelfie from when we rented her house 2 summers ago. I recently read the Annie Dillard excerpt and wonder if this is the actual copy of An American Childhood she referenced when editing it? 🤩

“The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old.”

@ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays

This was interesting Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman admitted to medical school in the states, her sister Emily followed a few years later. Emily had a harder time being taken seriously and being able to complete her degree. They focused on women‘s health not totally by choice. They opened what would become the first women‘s hospital in NYC.
They had their flaws.
I could used more, not sure what more just more.
Worth the read and time.

If you‘ve followed me for long you know I love a strong, badass woman and the (white) woman admitted to medical school would fall into that category. The fact that the male students agreed to admit her as a joke and then she was a damned good student and earned the respect of her fellow students and instructors, perfect.
I‘ll probably finish this tomorrow.