What we're reading: Elkin, Rovelli
Each week our wonderful staff share the books that they've been enjoying.
Lian is reading Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
After hearing my co-worker Joanna rave about Laura Elkin's debut novel Scaffolding, I took the opportunity to pick up a copy of my own. This evocative novel follows parallel stories about two couples inhabiting the same Paris apartment, 50 years apart. In both time periods, the women of the apartment are undergoing a change, pushing against the boundaries imposed upon them by their gender and the times in which they find themselves. Gorgeously written, Scaffolding is a powerful treatise on passion, womanhood, feminism, art, and how we perceive ourselves and others.
Molly is reading Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli
I very rarely pick up a non-fiction book, but recently it struck me just how little I understood about the world of physics. A co-worker recommended this to me as a good introduction, and they were absolutely correct. Rovelli charts the history of physics as a chronological series of ideas and discoveries, turning a topic which I have always associated with impenetrable mathematics into a clear and logical picture for the layperson. Rovelli's passion for knowledge and for the world as something vaster than human understanding is inspiring, and a true joy to experience.
