A review by kricketa
Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
3.0
so, this book. a couple of weeks ago i saw "the theory of everything" and became intrigued by the true story behind the movie. this memoir gave me good insight on what it is like to be married to and parenting three children with a genius facing a terrible disease, who refuses to talk about the disease, get help for the disease, or do anything except sulk around being a genius. it's a pretty unfortunate situation all around, but i'm always interested in the lives of the women who support famous men.
this book is pretty long and goes into excruciating detail about some of the strangest things, while skimming over others. for example, hawking hardly talks about the feelings or experience of first falling in love with stephen, but spends something like 3 pages talking about repainting the walls of the first home they lived in. sometimes a chapter will spin off into detailed research concerning her thesis, which she should definitely be proud of, but breaks up the narrative a bit. so kind of a cumbersome read, but still worth a skim if you're curious about the hawking family.
this book is pretty long and goes into excruciating detail about some of the strangest things, while skimming over others. for example, hawking hardly talks about the feelings or experience of first falling in love with stephen, but spends something like 3 pages talking about repainting the walls of the first home they lived in. sometimes a chapter will spin off into detailed research concerning her thesis, which she should definitely be proud of, but breaks up the narrative a bit. so kind of a cumbersome read, but still worth a skim if you're curious about the hawking family.