At that point, I also had few anecdotes or fun facts that were interesting enough I wanted to share them. Despite a description of the sections at the beginning of the book, I didn’t see a clear progression among topics.Īnother weakness of this book for me was that I already knew a lot of the information in the first three-quarters of the book. The author went on some long digressions and the overall organization was lacking. The disjointedness of the anecdotes in this book was definitely my main complaint. It’s been more than 6 years since I read The Violinist’s Thumb, so I’m not sure how cohesive it felt. I might just not have been in the right mood for this one though, because it didn’t wow me in the same way. I loved the author’s similar book on genetics, The Violinist’s Thumb. This collection of fun facts and historical anecdotes about the elements of the periodic table is, in theory, precisely my sort of book. Summary: I expected to love this, but it was disjointed and short on exciting, new-to-me anecdotes. Links: Bookshop (affiliate link) | Goodreads ★★★ Title: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Science Nonfiction: The Disappearing Spoon
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