The Other Einstein (CD-Audio)

from ajlewis2

This book was a big surprise. It is historical fiction, but is based on the lives of Einstein and his first wife. I loved the first half of the book with her going to university and meeting him. She had an uphill battle in her education and life in general as a young person. The last part of the ...

from creighley

Mitzi Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, or studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitzi is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than ...

from book58lover

This book reads as a romance novel, something that I never read. I thought the premise would be interesting and I prefer books about strong women. But Mitza has given up all her dreams, ignored her gift of an intellect beyond many others, and stuck to this guy she loves. Yikes. I realize the sett...

from karieh

A few months ago, I read "The Paris Wife" about the first wife of Ernest Hemingway - Hadley Richardson. That was a fascinating book and I not only enjoyed it - but learned a great deal. (I do understand that it is historical fiction but it got me to look up a number of facts about Hemmingway that...

from clue

To be blunt, I didn't like much of anything about this book. I do appreciate the author bringing the life of physicist Mileva Maric, the wife of Albert Einstein from 1903 to 1919, to light. Unfortunately the characters, all of them, are poorly developed and I didn't connect with any of them, even...