This book is truly original, not your normal run of the mill. I highly recommend it. What is it about? It is about friendship and the beauty of numbers and baseball. And more..... Where should I start? I will start with the numbers. This is sort of the easiest to expalin. This book made me see and ...
Lots of buzz around the blogosphere about this one. Not the usual hyped book, though. Very quiet story. Very Japanese. Exactly the book I wanted to read this week after the read-a-thon last weekend.
A beautiful little book, the story of a hired housekeeper taking care of an eccentric math professor in Japan, and her 10 year old son. The professor reveals the beauty of mathematics (I got glimpses of it, but much of it is still mysterious to me!) to the housekeeper, and somewhat to her son. The p...
3.5 StarThe Housekeeper + The Professor by Yoko Ogawa is a heart-warming story about a housekeeper, a professor and the housekeeper’s ten year old son but also and most importantly a story about what it means to live in the present, and about friendships, family and respect and a little Math thrown ...
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