This book could've used some better editing - 400 pages was entirely too long for the story Goodman intended to tell. Some of the plot points felt weakly woven together, and many of the characters were very flat or too archetypal. I'm surprised to see that some critics have heralded her as a cont...
There are very few books or films that capture the ups and downs of doing scientific research. Allegra Goodman’s book “Intuition” actually does a pretty good job of capturing the motivations, competition, camaraderie and ethical decisions faced by researchers during their day-to-day jobs.The boo...
I give this book a 2.5 stars because although the writing was okay and the story line was quite bland, the characters in the book were pretty good. The book is about a Hasidic community in NYC which revolves around this learned Rav. This fictional account fills more like an ethnographic look into...
This book was neutral... Not particularly deep, but I liked the meandering quality of the writing. Sometimes it got slow, but overall I was interested in the narrator enough to stick through it. I really felt like she was this quirky woman. So often a narrator feels a little bland, but Sharon was...
Helix had the loveliest house Honor had ever seen. The outside was white, and the roof was tiled with blue-green tiles like the scales of a dragon. When Helix’s mother opened the door, Honor felt the breeze of cooling units. She could see right through the living room to a white courtyard bloomin...
Jess read the word on the screen displaying Rabbi Helfgott’s PowerPoint presentation. He was speaking that evening at the Tree House, at Jess’s invitation.What is Oneness?Every particle in the universe desires to be One.raindropsparksoul“It is amazing to think,” Rabbi Helfgott told the group of c...