
I guess one way to tell if someone is REALLY famous is if they have a Who Was/Is book written about them! This time I read about
Laura Ingalls Wilder, which I didn't enjoy at all. I didn't like the use of "Indian" and I also just find LIW to be so not my thing, so it was hard to get through this one.
I appreciate that the Little House books address the stories of Native Americans in the books on their website.
But man...I don't know. Check out that link. It's important.


I also read
Who Is Bob Dylan? Now I don't like
Mr. Dylan that much at all. I mean, after reading the book. What I did like was that the author didn't hold back from the reader, you know? We were told about the crappy way that Dylan treated people. So I gave this book 5 stars, but the Wilder one only 1 star because it didn't mention the Native American component at all. Does that make sense?
This happened after the Dylan book was published. The jerkery continues!
I then moved on to
Frida Kahlo and I knew about her from my art history classes in
college and also from the
movie. Fascinating and super talented woman.


Next was
Claude Monet and I knew a lot about him and I am so impressed by this whole series at this point! Except for the LIW stuff.
Picasso was next. And I loved that the author didn't do what the LIW book's author did and sugar coat the darker side of
Picasso. Next was Maria Tallchief. I knew her name and am embarrassed to say, I didn't know anything else. The last artist Who Was I read was about
Andy Warhol. I really enjoyed this one, not just because he was from Pittsburgh, but just because he was an interesting man.
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