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The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Pages: 8
Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication Date October 18th 2016
Source: Netgalley
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In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.From the Compact Disc edition.
First Date:
Readers of this blog will know that I enjoy reading books on famous persons’ signficant others. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I picked up The Other Einstein. Unfortunately, I had a little difficulty getting into this novel and even tried listening to some of it. This helped a little, but I enjoyed Mozhan Marno’s narration style more than I did the telling of the novel.
Second Date:
Mitza, Albert Einstein’s wife was smart and had an interesting life story but Albert had a tendency to use her as a doormat. I was frustrated by this behavior and had a hard time seeing beyond it.
Third Date:
Albert Einstein was a douche and thus took away anything enjoyable that may have been contained in the novel. The Other Einstein will not be getting lucky.
I didn’t listen to the audio of this one so I can’t speak for that, but I have issues with this book as well. It seemed very promising, as I also enjoy books about the spouses of important people, but it just didn’t work for me. Sorry it didn’t work out for you either!
I kept hoping it would get better or that Mitza would grow a backbone but it was a big fat disappointment. I’m glad it wasn’t just me though, and that I have a like-mind to commiserate with.