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Everyone and their mother read this last year for Women in Translation month (August 2016), and I remember finding my own copy at the annual literacy book sale. I set it aside for WIT month this year and was happy to pull it back out.
The housekeeper is a single parent, trying to make enough to live on, and the professor is a mathematician with a failing memory. The story is about connection and care but also MATH and anyone who knows me knows I'm a sucker for math. The professor can't remember p ...more
The housekeeper is a single parent, trying to make enough to live on, and the professor is a mathematician with a failing memory. The story is about connection and care but also MATH and anyone who knows me knows I'm a sucker for math. The professor can't remember p ...more
Just breathtaking. Absolutely beautiful.
Amicable numbers, perfect numbers, abundant and deficient numbers, and more. Baseball. Tolerance. Patience. Tenderness.
This book was such a sweet surprise. I snuck off at work to finish it in little doses on my birthday. It was the nicest part of the day...
(Read my friend Chrissie's review. She says a lot of what I'd like to say.)
"You know what a factor is, don't you?"
"I think so. I'm sure I learned about them at some point...."
"For 220 is divisible by ...more
Amicable numbers, perfect numbers, abundant and deficient numbers, and more. Baseball. Tolerance. Patience. Tenderness.
This book was such a sweet surprise. I snuck off at work to finish it in little doses on my birthday. It was the nicest part of the day...
(Read my friend Chrissie's review. She says a lot of what I'd like to say.)
"You know what a factor is, don't you?"
"I think so. I'm sure I learned about them at some point...."
"For 220 is divisible by ...more
A very quiet story about a kind, loyal housekeeper and the amnesiac professor she works for. This sounds like the set-up of a romance, but it's not. It's about friendship and loyalty.
The three main characters don't get names. They're, the Professor, the Housekeeper, and Root - the Professor's nickname for the Housekeeper's 10 year old son (because of his flat head). There's math and baseball and the problem of memories.
The Professor can only remember 80 minutes at a time. After that, his brain r ...more
The three main characters don't get names. They're, the Professor, the Housekeeper, and Root - the Professor's nickname for the Housekeeper's 10 year old son (because of his flat head). There's math and baseball and the problem of memories.
The Professor can only remember 80 minutes at a time. After that, his brain r ...more
A quick read about numbers, baseball, families, and memories.
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