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               For this blog post, I will be reviewing the book Relativity: The Special and General Theory  by none other than Albert Einstein. This is different from the previous books I have reviewed, as they have all been science fiction but fiction nevertheless. This is a nonfiction book detailing the special and general theory of relativity, the most accurate descriptions of the workings of space, time and gravitation that we have today. Developed by Einstein himself in the early twentieth century, the theories are summarized in this book translated from German by Robert W. Lawson. This book is enjoyable due to many reasons, one of which are its clear methodical approach which allows the reader to fully comprehend the content.               Einstein uses a rigorous approach in this book, starting off with the basics of geometry and coordinate systems. He then introduces the principles of class...

“The one thing she still had was the freedom to follow the narrative that suited her best.” Kathryn Phillips 26-year-old black babysitter Emira Tucker’s life is thrown into a confusing spiral when a police officer wrongly accuses her of kidnapping the white child she’s looking after. The child’s mother is Alix Chamberlain, a feminist author who reluctantly moved away from the hustle of New York to start a family with her news reporter husband, Peter. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid tackles themes of racism, classism, and privilege as it follows the complicated lives of the two women and their relationship with each other. The thing that makes this book so good, in my opinion, is the format it’s written in and how that enhances the message. Specifically the fact that each chapter alternates between Emira and Alix’s perspective. I have seen this in a lot of books, but I think it’s especially powerful in Such a Fun Age because it not only gives you information about the characters, but...

  I believe everyone should read the "Time Machine," not because of any narrative reasons (even though it was a decent book) but because it was one of the first Science Fiction books to ever be written. Being written in the 1800's it was extremely interesting to see where he though the future would lead, and while the the "Time Machine" takes place several hundred years in the future even now; I can confidently say it won't be accurate. We only know the main character by the name The Time Traveler. He builds a time machine in his workshop, using all sorts of Victorian era materials like ivory and gems. After a lengthy talk trying to convince his friends that he really did create a time machine. He travels to the year 2800 and finds no humans as we recognize them. Instead he finds a bunch of short and dumb people with no one doing any work in sight.  The structure of the time machine is surprisingly easy to understand for a book as old as it is, and with it b...