Finally I am making progress with My Fall/Winter Reading List after unexpectedly getting distracted by my favorite book of the year and finishing up my WWII reading list (to be posted soon).
I started The Other Einstein: A Novel
This book provides (fictional) perspective of Einstein’s first wife, Mileva, also a brilliant physicist. As a woman in this male dominated field, especially during the early 1900s, her path was difficult, as the only woman in her classes then trying to keep up on her scientific research while bearing (Einstein’s) children and later forced to watch him receive credit for her own work.
Her character presents that she was actually the creator of the theory of relativity in 1905 and that she authored several of his most famous papers. Because she did not actually finish her degree (because she got pregnant before they were married) her name could not technically appear on the research and papers. These allegations and suggestions are certainly plausible and intriguing, making for a great read.
(2016). It’s hard to sleep when someone (in your book) has just returned from a concentration camp.
by Markus Zusak is my latest read in this genre. Due to some stylistic choices and a story line that is close to my heart and this blog (books!), I’m naming it as one of my favorites of this genre. Here’s why:
depicts women who moved beyond survival to actively aid the resistance movement.
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Last Fall after reading dozens of new book titles, publisher notes, and excerpts, and of course looking at beautiful book covers, I presented my first reading list, for Fall/Winter 2016.
cover characterizes the book as well as possible: It reads as fiction, non-fiction, possibly poetry, and all of these genres together yet unlike any of them.