The Square Root of Summer
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...
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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 wormholes to her past:To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the aftern
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781626723733 (1626723737)
ASIN: 1626723737
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pages no: 295
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...