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I found this book fascinating! Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman Medical Doctor,was brilliant,focused and determined to achieve a medical degree. She encouraged her younger sister to join her,and they opened a medical school for women in New York City. They also started a hospital for women,staffed by women in 1857. The courage and tenacity of Elizabeth Blackwell was exceptional. Neither sister married. Medicine was their passion. Trailblazers!

Just started this book on audio while waiting for physical book reserve from the library. IRL Book Club read.

I really wanted to love this one. I had never heard of Elizabeth Blackwell (the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States), so I thought I would be so interested in this book. I just found it hard to keep picking it up. The Information was good, but something was missing #aboutsisters #booked2022

#wondrouswednesday

1. It‘s hard to only pick 3, but the first 3 I think of are Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, & Robin Hobb

2. Inigo Montoya, Veruca Salt, Holly Golightly, Sherlock Holmes, Ramona Qumby, Victor Frankenstein, Tristram Shandy

3. Tagged

Thanks for the tag Sherri! 🥰

Finished all these books plus the tagged book. Have a few days left in the month — what should I read next? #bookspin

Very interesting

20142021. We were headed to Maryland & had to find out whether Bunny fit in Amy‘s old travel “pop” crate. I‘m pretty sure Bun & Amy are about the same size….but when Bunny went & laid in the pop crate, her legs stuck out the front. 😭 My mother says Bunny is bigger than she thinks, and Amy was smaller that she thought. I‘m still pretty sure they‘re close to the same size…even tho Bunny is 20 lbs heavier.

#litsysummercamp #takeahike I‘m not a hiker, but I love to look at mountains. My favorite mountains to date are the Santa Monicas in California, but later this year I‘ll be seeing the Blue Ridge Mtns (pic here from Roanoke VA tourist website) for the first time. The mountains that my mother‘s people called home, which I think have been calling to me.

#litsysummercamp Day 4. I thought I was alone here at Foxbolt, but I hear voices in other rooms & have glimpsed one or two other travelers. In the front room, a delightfully mismatched couple has spent evenings by the cheerful fire, laughing & singing, he in German & she in English, knitting & whittling; while in the dining room, a quiet Scottish couple converse in whispers over their drams. ⬇️

IRL it was an overwhelmingly busy & hot blazing day, but in my mind I‘ve checked in to Foxbolt Lodge under a pseudonym — Mrs Sempronia Woodbine. Instead of being oppressively hot, the lodge is wrapped in a cool, shady fog: excellent cuppa tea weather. I might be the lodge‘s only current guest; I‘ve seen no one and can only faintly hear the sounds of the staff. I‘m taking tea and pudding in my room. Current audiobook tagged. #litsysummercamp #Day2

This book aligned nicely with my recent read of Ambrose Parry‘s The Art of Dying. The Doctors Blackwell is an interesting read about 19th-century medicine beyond Nightingale and Lister.

Got up early to finish this library book. Sustenance will help.

REVIEW: An interesting look at the lives of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, pioneers of women in medicine. I enjoyed learning about them, but I was put off by their attitudes towards other women and their dismissal of women‘s suffrage. The Blackwell sisters seemed to be difficult people to like, despite their accomplishments.

Don‘t tell my yoga instructor (shh!), but on the days when I can‘t quiet my mind I read while holding long poses in yin to distract myself from feeling uncomfortable. 😬

#Summer2021 giveaway
Read while exercising

1. Currently reading the tagged book about Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, the first female M.D.s in the U.S. Also reading “Washington‘s Spies,” which is about the Culper Ring during the Revolutionary War.
2. 👍🏼👍🏼 I never knew about the connection between Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale—fascinating!
3. Narrative nonfiction. I love it!

Thanks for the tag, @Eggs
#wondrouswednesday

Enjoying a nice quiet morning read before the hubby gets home from work and I have to get up. Another entry for the #Summer2021 giveaway hosted by @Lauram !
“Read in bed”

Another entry into @Lauram ‘s #Summer2021 giveaway: Read with a Family Pet. Does the pet have to enjoy it as much as I do, Laura? Because I think we‘re failing at that. 😀

@Hooked_on_books is right. This provides a lot of nuance to the story of the story of the Blackwell sisters. I found myself relating more to Emily‘s love of patient care rather than Elizabeth‘s determination to educate more women. (I wonder if Elizabeth‘s reluctance had to do with an infection that cost her an eye during training.) I did not know that both sisters taught schoolchildren within 30 miles of me (and hated doing it) before ⬇️

Elizabeth Blackwell was a hero to me as a child and I‘m glad I read about her later in life when I have a better understanding of nuance, as she‘s not tremendously likable. But that doesn‘t make her, her sister, or this book any less interesting. I really enjoyed it and appreciated the opportunity to learn about these remarkable women. The audio isn‘t fabulous but not bad, either.

Loved this book about the first woman to hold a medical degree in America, Elizabeth Blackwell, and her sister, Emily, who followed in her footsteps. Also, it was a lovely spring day for baseball practice!

Next nonfiction book up and a good one for #womenshistorymonth

Although I‘m impressed and appreciative of the lives and work of these women, I found this book to be dry. I didn‘t really like Elizabeth Blackwell. Some party‘s were interesting, but it just wasn‘t the book for me.

I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I need to put more biographies about women in my TBR pile.

#catsoflitsy #litsycats

I'm still getting on with this one. It's reminding me how much I enjoy reading about the lives of women.

Found this at the library and couldn't believe my luck. It's not Popova's Figuring, but it's hitting some of the biographical notes for me. Also I'm filling in some more details in my understanding of the whole Brook Farm experiment because one of the sisters was there at the end. Anyway... I'm very pleased over here.

This new biography of the Blackwell sisters is calling my name! #TBRtemptation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/the-blackwell-sisters-and-the-harr...

Day 1 and already so many great new books! Well done 2021!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/books/january-2021-books.html?campaign_id=69&...