This was a fun read. Enjoyable because Reeves has managed to explain very clearly and very succinctly what many other scientists would make very hard to understand. It is also very sweet.I should add that it was recommended by Manny Rayner.
The first thing by Hubert Reeves that I came across was L'univers expliqué à mes petits-enfants, and now I can't read anything he's written without imagining his charming granddaughter's interruptions. So, with apologies:Grandpa, what is your book called?The title is La première seconde. And what's ...
Yesterday afternoon, we were walking past the children's bookstore just off the route de Carouge when my eye was caught by Le petit livre du caca. I had to go in and buy it; the assistant tried to persuade me that I also wanted Le petit livre de l'amour, and while I waited for her to go and get a co...