Special Topics in Calamity Physics, (Paperback)

from Sarij

"As a Harvard freshman recounting the events of the previous year, when her childhood "unstitched like a snagged sweater," Blue remembers being thoroughly in thrall to her father, a political science professor who changes jobs at third-tier colleges so frequently that by age 16 she's attended 24 ...

from princemuchao

Blue, our first-person protagonist, is a precocious teenage girl whose mother died when she was five. Living alone with her father, an intellectual professor who now prefers many short and meaningless relationships to another life partnership, she attends dozens of schools as they flit about the ...

from jcbrunner

This severely overhyped first novel about a Veronica-Marsy daddy daughter combo suffers from a lack of editorship and a calamity in pink cover. Until the murder mystery kicks in around page 400, it's a slog through a mess of adjectives, false similes and Cliff Notes erudition. A little less hype ...

from delphica

(#39 in the 2007 book challenge) I tore through it this weekend, I suspect I'm going to need to go back and read it again because even at the time I knew I was going too quickly, but it was that kind of a page-turner. Blue, the daughter of an eccentric professor who won't stay at a college for mo...

from seasonsoflove

From what I had heard about this book before I started it, people either love it or hate it. It even divided my usually literary like-minded father and I, with him not enjoying it, while I quickly ranked it one of my favorite books of the new year. It is hard for me to say exactly why I found mys...