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So I'm finishing up listening to The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney. What an amazing book!

Enjoyed this book, because Cooney is good at saying, we don't really know, but with these circumstances we do know, they probably had some of these issues. Hatshepsut was a woman pharaoh and that was unusual. I like people who push the boundaries. 

Went to the Met twice to see her statue, and the gallieries were closed! I looked through the Met book on her (PDF online here). Really enjoyed learning about Hatshepsut. 

After I'm done with that, hopefully today, I'll start Yellowface for my book club. I went for a walk and listened to the first 4 chapters, and wow! I'm not sure I've enjoyed a novel like this before. It's amazing. 

I feel quite a pressure to get through 3 books for my book club who have meetings early August. I've got to really crank and quit watching movies (my Letterboxd diary) and Anime (Serializd diary)

Going to be reading The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (post).

Also reading Zeal by Morgan Jerkins, which is a slave love story, just after the Civil War, and a connection to a modern love story. 

Also I'm bewitched by What Is Enlightenment? by Dale S. Wright, which is the feeling I had in college when I would read a book that wasn't assigned anyway, just to prove I had some control over what was going into my head. 

Also on the wings is Mary Oliver, Rumi, and other books. I have library books checked out, and sometimes I don't read them much, but I do want to finish Information Desk by Robyn Schiff, which I'm halfway through. 

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