by Marie Benedict
by Marie Benedict This is Historical Fiction, but based on a real person who was the first wife of Albert Einstein and one of the few women of her time to have an education in Physics. Her name was Mileva Marić. The story is told in first person and for me seemed very realistic, showing Mileva's...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Benedict's telling of the woman behind one of the greatest minds falls flat. Her writing style, which consists of short, choppy, basic sentences that have little to no imagination and lack in descri...
Historical fiction is about the balance between history and fiction. From the content of the book and the author's note at the end, The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict is more fiction than history. Even as a fictional story about a relationship, the book stays at the surface; no insight is given as...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Sourcebooks Landmark for offering me an ARC copy of the book. We’ve all heard the saying: ‘Behind every great man there’s a great woman’ in its many different versions. It’s true that for centuries men (or many men of the wealthy classes with access to education) could ded...
Well, I guess I don't know history as well as I thought I did. The Other Einstein could mean a couple things here. The more obvious "other" Einstein being Mileva Einstein, Albert's first and brilliant wife. It could also refer to the "other" Einstein being Albert himself, and a side of his life and ...
I just finished reading this book and I really don't know how to feel. The book was very well written and I enjoyed reading it. However, the things that were written have me bamboozled. I know that creative geniuses sometimes don't feel things like empathy and real human emotions, but this was over ...
The Other Einstein is Mileva Maric, who starts out as a shy, mildly disabled, bookish girl traveling to Zurich to start college as a physics and math student. At the beginning, her story is a joy—meeting new friends, fighting back, rather successfully against the established norm that women have no ...
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