Author: R.J. Gedney
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Publication Date: June 12, 2018
Pages: 272 pages
Publication Date: June 12, 2018
Pages: 272 pages
Where to buy: Amazon
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Summary: Princeton. New Jersey.
14th March 1954
'Albert Einstein speaking.'
'Who?' asks the girl on the telephone.
'I'm sorry,' she says. 'I have the wrong number.'
'You have the right number,' Albert says.
From a wrong number to a friendship that would impact both their lives, Albert Einstein Speaking begins with two unlikely friends - the world's most respected scientist and a schoolgirl from New Jersey. From their first conversation Mimi Beaufort had a profound effect on Einstein and brought him, in his final years, back to life. In turn he let her into his world.
Albert Einstein Speaking is the story of an incredible friendship, and of a remarkable life. The son of an electrician in nineteenth-century Germany, Albert Einstein went on to become one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and the most famous face in the world. This riotous, charming and moving novel spans almost a century of European history and shines a light on the real man behind the myth.
Review:
This book was in no way what I excepted. I liked it mostly because I feel like I learned a lot about Albert Einstein. I liked it because it had a lot of German in there. However, this book was not how they summary describes it to be. So if you are expecting it to be a young woman conversation with an elderly Einstein. Maybe a little foolish like me and thinking the it was a young woman from the future holding a conversation with an elderly Einstein you will be wrong. It is not like that. It is mostly reading of his life from birth forward. How he was a curious child, almost a heartless man, loveless father, brilliant, among other things. The start of this book is exactly as the summary describes which is perfect then it falls into basically a biography of Einstein. I feel like the author should have stuck to one of the two things. I really liked the book at first then the more it got into the biography aspect the more I started to dislike the book and the more difficult it was for me to read it. I liked learning about Einstein some aspects were very interesting but it was still very difficult to move forward. There were a lot of aspects of the knowledge of Einstine that was shared that was hard for me to follow maybe because science isn't my strong point maybe because some of it was just unnecessary information.
14th March 1954
'Albert Einstein speaking.'
'Who?' asks the girl on the telephone.
'I'm sorry,' she says. 'I have the wrong number.'
'You have the right number,' Albert says.
From a wrong number to a friendship that would impact both their lives, Albert Einstein Speaking begins with two unlikely friends - the world's most respected scientist and a schoolgirl from New Jersey. From their first conversation Mimi Beaufort had a profound effect on Einstein and brought him, in his final years, back to life. In turn he let her into his world.
Albert Einstein Speaking is the story of an incredible friendship, and of a remarkable life. The son of an electrician in nineteenth-century Germany, Albert Einstein went on to become one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and the most famous face in the world. This riotous, charming and moving novel spans almost a century of European history and shines a light on the real man behind the myth.
Review:
This book was in no way what I excepted. I liked it mostly because I feel like I learned a lot about Albert Einstein. I liked it because it had a lot of German in there. However, this book was not how they summary describes it to be. So if you are expecting it to be a young woman conversation with an elderly Einstein. Maybe a little foolish like me and thinking the it was a young woman from the future holding a conversation with an elderly Einstein you will be wrong. It is not like that. It is mostly reading of his life from birth forward. How he was a curious child, almost a heartless man, loveless father, brilliant, among other things. The start of this book is exactly as the summary describes which is perfect then it falls into basically a biography of Einstein. I feel like the author should have stuck to one of the two things. I really liked the book at first then the more it got into the biography aspect the more I started to dislike the book and the more difficult it was for me to read it. I liked learning about Einstein some aspects were very interesting but it was still very difficult to move forward. There were a lot of aspects of the knowledge of Einstine that was shared that was hard for me to follow maybe because science isn't my strong point maybe because some of it was just unnecessary information.
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