clock … watching time, the only true currency

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl jumped onto my list from the wife’s bookgroup. And I’m grateful. I didn’t love the book, yet it was a different read. I needed some fiction.

The ending startled me, but also disappointed me. I didn’t see it coming…which is fine. Yet the twist didn’t feel true to the fascinating character of the father, whose peripatic lifestyle always included his precocious daughter, even when all else was left behind. Hmmm.

I did find myself wondering whether each and every academic citation Pessl peppers the story with was real. I want to believe they are… but… I don’t know.