Great books for Women’s History Month

March marks the start of women’s history month at Zonegem. We are celebrating with our favourite classic woman’s audiobooks that recognize great women’s feats and adventures. Here are our top-rated picks from Zonegem:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

This story tells Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy March, raised in New England and live in poverty. This book explores their domestic adventures as they try to make an income and their friendships and love affairs as they become Little Women.

She Came To Slay by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Harriott Tubman is well known as one of the most famous conductors of the railroad. But she is also known for her selflessness and bravery and is an inspiration to generations in the struggle for civil rights. She helped to liberate hundreds of slaves, and she was the first woman to lead an armed expedition. This book explores Harriott’s many accomplishments and is both engaging and informative.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

There’s a good reason why this book is a multi-award-winning novel; it is a fantastic story about a young girl’s journey of healing and the power of love. Lily Owens’s life has been shaped by the fuzzy memory of her mother being killed. When her ‘stand-in mom offends three of the biggest racists in town, Lily decides it’s time for them both to escape. This is a novel about female power, a story that women should share and pass on.

For more classic and empowering women’s novels to celebrate women’s history month, visit Zonegem for an extensive collection.

inspirational quotes about classical music

Here are some of the greatest minds in history who were touched and inspired by classical music and their inspiring words to describe it.

Tony Bennett: ‘In the 1920s and ’30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others created the best songs ever written. These are classics... This is classical music’

Albert Einstein: "I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin."

St Augustine: "To sing is to pray twice."

Plato: "Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."

John Dryden: "What passion cannot music raise and quell!"

John Milton: "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

Maya Angelou: "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Hans Christian Andersen: "Where words fail, music speaks."

Leo Tolstoy: "Music is the shorthand of emotion."

John Keats: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."

Heinrich Heine: "When words leave off, music begins."

George Bernard Shaw: "Hell is full of musical amateurs."

Aldous Huxley: "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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