No Other Darkness (DI Marnie Rome, #2)
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Two young boys.Trapped underground in a bunker. Five years later, the boys' bodies are found and...
Assassination Classroom Book 5
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I found book 5 of Assassination Classroom pretty entertaining! The kids finish the baseball game...
Close Quarters (Jayce & Emma)
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Emma has found a home with Jayce, and a career as the manager of Kitty’s greeting card store....
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A Witness Out of the Blue (2019)
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Conspirators (2013)
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I've just never found Mr Bean all that funny, and this does little to change my mind.
LucyB (47 KP) rated The Essex Serpent in Books
Jul 23, 2017
To be honest, I felt ever so slightly disappointed by the book as a whole, though... though I suspect this might be a case of 'it's me, not you'. I found it tricky to get into, and didn't really engage much with any of the characters. There were moments of absolute brilliance (the 'beast' washed up on the shore was so wonderfully depicted, as was the laughing scene in the school), but these were mired in content that I found a little distancing.
I don't want to be harsh at all, because I think it's clear that Perry is a master writer, and judging by all the other glowing reviews, this clearly is just me not 'getting' the book. Perhaps I'll pull it off the shelf at a later date and give it another go, it may well be that I just wasn't in the right frame of mind at present.
Shing-Tung Yau along with Steve Nadis take us on a journey of a life in the pursuit of the universes hidden geometry. Their journey goes from China to Hong Kong and leads to San Francisco and Berkeley. Who knew looking for a topic for your dissertation at Berkeley would lead to a life long study in geometry. I found his realizations profound how Shing-Tung Yau made his decisions. This is a wonderful read for not just mathematician it goes beyond that it goes to the equation within all of us and the search we are all on to solve the Shape of Life. This wonderfully written book for a mathematician is a dream with the equations and answers with steps included allows others to understand the complex thinking of Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis and why they found their conclusions are both profound and completely unique not that no one has not thought of them before but the way they found the conclusions was what made them so profound. The deeper meaning beyond the math makes this by far one of my most favorite books of all time.