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Bryn Mawr Blogger Recommends Summer Reading And More

Recommendations include a book about Madeline Albright and a one documenting a woman's 100 day stay in a prison in Iran.

Looking for some good reads this summer? Sarah Theobald, a recent graduate of offered a few options in her blog on Bryn Mawr Now.

The recommendation list on her blog came from the Women in Public Service Project Summer Institute she attended earlier this month at Wellesley College. The recommendations include books and website discussed at the two-week institute.

The first on Theobald's list is Read My Pins, is a book about Madeline Albright's diplomatic years - and her jewelry.

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The books name, the blog stated, was inspired by the jeweled serpent pin Albright wore to meetings with Iraqi diplomats in response to a poem calling her an "unmatched clamor maker and serpent."

Other recommendations include a website focused on biases we may not know we have and a book documenting a woman's more than 100 day imprisonment in Iran. 

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