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adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book helped me out of a reading slump. I hate you Albert Einstein. Loved and appreciated the story of Mileva Marić. She deserved so much better.
. Gobsmacked and astonished as the story of the untold in school, Milevan “Mitza” Marić. I’m well aware that most of it is exaggerated and fiction but I’m amazed at the trials and tributes that she has been through until her separation from Albert. Even before meeting him, things weren’t easy. Her intelligence and character never wavered.Yet he tried to keep her into the mold he saw fit, she was able to escape. Not too many women are able to do that unscathed, not that she wasn’t. But she was able to make it out alive. The rage I felt throughout the story about her contribution to the theory of relativity in 1905 and not only not being credited, but being diminished by the man she loved and was there when she told him of her discovery. IN RELATION TO HER LATE DAUGHTER. She gave up every single part of herself for him. She tried so hard and yet was never able to be enough for him. I’m hoping desperately that it’s not reflecting the true story of Mileva but I don’t know. It might be. Her relationships with the other characters and her sons, and science, the thing that made her so happy and content, she was completely deprived of. It was just so heartbreaking and rewarding to read it. I’m glad she got out and I’m sadden that she never got the recognition she deserved. Remarkable women, to do what she did in spite of the narcissistic and selfish man who couldn’t handle the fame. Thoughts and prayers to her descendants.
“You’re a genius at everything but the human heart”
. Gobsmacked and astonished as the story of the untold in school, Milevan “Mitza” Marić. I’m well aware that most of it is exaggerated and fiction but I’m amazed at the trials and tributes that she has been through until her separation from Albert. Even before meeting him, things weren’t easy. Her intelligence and character never wavered.
“You’re a genius at everything but the human heart”
“Albert we may be Ein Stein (one stone), but it has been clear that we are of two hearts”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism
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