The Square Root of Summer
Connie Hsu at Roaring Brook has acquired at auction The Square Root of Summer by debut author Harriet Reuter Hapgood. The novel follows 17-year-old physics prodigy Gottie Oppenheimer as she navigates a summer of grief and rips in the space-time continuum, all while trying to reconcile heartbreak....
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Connie Hsu at Roaring Brook has acquired at auction The Square Root of Summer by debut author Harriet Reuter Hapgood. The novel follows 17-year-old physics prodigy Gottie Oppenheimer as she navigates a summer of grief and rips in the space-time continuum, all while trying to reconcile heartbreak. Worldwide publication is scheduled for May 2016. Gemma Cooper of the Bent Age
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Edition language: English
The Good: It was short, it had illustrations that cut down on the amount I had to read, it did not take place in a dystopian universe.The Okay: Just about everything else. There was definitely good bones to the story, but the final execution was definitely a miss for me. Told in the first person, 17...
I received a copy from Netgalley. This is one the rare occasions where the book has left me utterly baffled. I didn't have a clue what was going on, hardly through any of it. And the weird thing? I still completely loved it. It’s a UKYA book about a girl who’s obsessed with complex math, space tim...
I wanted to read this book because it had "square root" in the title. I'm glad it did, because I actually kind of liked this book. It was kind of cute, and interested, weird, but overall a good read.
Not sure how I feel about this book. Some parts were so spot on: Gottie's guilt at wishing her grandfather could have a Viking's death, her immense grief holding her in the past and allowing her to lose sight of her present and her future. Falling in the worm holes into her past didn't work for m...
This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity. Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormhol...