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While reading this book, I kept feeling distracted by the physics language. More specifically, I suppose I was less interested in the physics that Childs described that I was in the personal relationships and live histories of the characters. This sounds silly since the book was very much about physics, but I thought that there could have been another way of conceptualizing the relationships in the story. I guess I really don't view physics as a way of entertaining myself in free time, the way I do novels, so I was annoyed by its presence in the fiction. Knowing that it was inspired by real events did not help me to focus on the physics content of the story; it just made it seem even more detached from the characters and seemed to force heavy-handed themes onto the plot.

Flora