week 8/25

International Women’s Day – 2

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Book Recs

  • Something Lost, Something Gained: reflections on life, love, and liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
  • susan, linda, nina, & cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli
  • Song in a Weary Heart by Pauli Murray
  • Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
  • Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch
  • Set the world on Fire: A 4- Week Personal Retreat with the Female Doctors of the Church by Vinita Hampton Wright
  • The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
  • Reflections from Both Sides of the Glass Ceiling: Finding My True Self in Corporate America by Stephanie Battaglino
  • Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier

World Book Day

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5 Book Recs for World Book Day

  1. The Armand Gamache Series by Louise Penny
  2. How We Learn to Be Brave by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
  3. A Lily Among Thorns: A Mohawk Repatriation of St. Kateri Tekakwi:tha by Darren Bonaparte
  4. Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson
  5. Patriot by Alexi Navalny

Plus a Bonus Book

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez

Mark Twain’s Study.
Elmira, NY
(c)2025

Election Connection – Trump Fiddles While Democracy Burns

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Up to about four minutes is excellent commentary on what is going on in the US. The rest is also worth watching, although its focus is more on where France should be heading.

There are English subtitles.