Advantages: Innovative, fresh look at a well-known subject Disadvantages: temp
Dava Sobel's fascinating book, 'Galileo's Daughter', is an historical text, but done in a wonderfully innovative manner. 'Galileo's daughter, born of his long illicit liaison with the beautiful Marina Gamba of Venice, entered the world in the summer heat ...
Advantages: little-known facts are discovered and put together in an interesting story Disadvantages: a little dry at times
This is the story about Galileo’s illegitimate daughter, about whom not much is known. Virginia becomes a nun and writes over 120 letters to her father until her death. Sobel explores deep into the father-daughter relationship.
Virginia was an intellec ...
Advantages: brilliant social history, scottish Disadvantages: nothing speical
Aah the halcyon days of childhood. They are gone for me but I do have fond memories as do many other people judging by the number of childhood memoirs that have been published. I like them as they are an easy read and produce a fuzzy rosy warm feeling as ...
What I found captivating about the book was the entrapment of a particular experience of childhood in words which though simple deliver to the adult reader an understanding of the complexity a child is faced with as consciousness and understanding grow an ...
Advantages: Objective biography of his good and less wonderful sides Disadvantages: None really for anybody interested in the subject
...Until I read this book, Mohandas Karamchand (better known to us as Mahatma) Gandhi had always been a very shadowy figure. I was familiar enough with the picture of the loincloth-clad man who fell victim to the bullets of an assassin shortly after the proc ...
