A review by teigenbereadin
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

2.0

I really wanted to like this book, especially because I'm the one who recommended it for book club, but I really just couldn't get into it. It reads like a textbook most of the time, but then gives you closer looks at the main characters' lives and then backs right out again to a broad sweeping narrative of the overarching history. The writing also made it hard to track the characters and the author often introduces characters in one paragraph that you will never read again. There were many parts like that that felt like meaningless learning of characters and details about planes or wind tunnels. I would probably not recommend this book to someone, unless it's literally for homework.