A review by harsitha
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

4/5 

A hopeless romantic and a physicist walk into a bar and write this book. 

It’s hard to explain what this was about because it is about so many things and then nothing at all. Its about time and how it affects us in different ways and more ways than we think. A poetically scientific or scientifically poetic take on time, is the best way I can describe this. 

Without directly pointing it out this is basically features a fictionalized Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is plagued with weird dreams that he cannot make sense of, as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905. Each chapter explores a different dream of his and how time flows so different in each. It was… weirdly moving?!