Patti Smith's "A Book Of Days"

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Posted December 11, 2022 by [Deleted] in Books

We were lucky enough to get the chance to see Patti Smith in person recently, and got this book along with our tickets. I've been in a reading funk lately, but this book was a nice way to dip my toe back into reading, and I found it incredibly moving! There are so many women I learned about such as Alice Ball (invented the cure for leprosy but her work was stolen) and Maryam Mirzakhani (first woman and first Iranian to win a Fields Medal), and I love that she uses her IG to share their stories, among other things.

I wasn't following Patti on IG so all of the photos in her book were new to me, and I really enjoyed it.

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a_shrub

August 11, 2023

(Edited August 11, 2023)

I recommend

The Amelia Peabody series is a series of twenty historical mystery novels and one non-fiction companion volume written by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz under the pen name Elizabeth Peters.

*eta: if you can get the audiobooks, the ones read by Barbara Rosenblat are especially good

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carnalflower

September 3, 2023

Amelia Peabody is my absolute fave. I reread the whole series about once a year. And yes the Audiobooks by Rosenblatt are the best!

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