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A review by heidirgorecki
Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History by Olivia Campbell
informative
sad
slow-paced
3.0
The information in the book was good, the women featured were amazing, their struggles to just survive and get out of Germany was commendable, and I'm glad I know about them. It definitely is so sad, yet impressive how much women of the past had to get thru in a male-dominated and discriminatory landscape in history. We definitely should know more of them, and I wish we could recognize not just them, but so many women who made such impacts but were never recognized.
That being said, the book itself was just so detailed and had so much going on, it was really hard to stay invested, and ultimately I kept losing interest. Outside of their brilliance in science in similar fields most of the time there was not crossover between the 4 women's stories. I had anticipated the "sisters" part of that meant that they literally worked together and had collaboration but typically they did not. Some didn't intersect with each other at all (unless I missed that for lack of focus). It was essentially 4 different women's stories going back and forth constantly during the book which, besides being extremely detail-heavy as mentioned, was really hard to keep track of who was who or what was going on.
To be honest, when I requested the book, I thought it was a historical fiction based on real stories because the cover was a graphic image, which I don't think I've ever seen on a nonfiction, so also a little frustrating at the lack of focused attention in the marketing/writing. Again, I'm glad I know about these women that I probably never would have heard of otherwise, as so many women in the sciences or just in advancement in general during the time period, as well as what they went thru to get out of Germany during WW2, but I just felt like it tried to do too much all at once.
Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy of this audiobook. All opinions are mine.
That being said, the book itself was just so detailed and had so much going on, it was really hard to stay invested, and ultimately I kept losing interest. Outside of their brilliance in science in similar fields most of the time there was not crossover between the 4 women's stories. I had anticipated the "sisters" part of that meant that they literally worked together and had collaboration but typically they did not. Some didn't intersect with each other at all (unless I missed that for lack of focus). It was essentially 4 different women's stories going back and forth constantly during the book which, besides being extremely detail-heavy as mentioned, was really hard to keep track of who was who or what was going on.
To be honest, when I requested the book, I thought it was a historical fiction based on real stories because the cover was a graphic image, which I don't think I've ever seen on a nonfiction, so also a little frustrating at the lack of focused attention in the marketing/writing. Again, I'm glad I know about these women that I probably never would have heard of otherwise, as so many women in the sciences or just in advancement in general during the time period, as well as what they went thru to get out of Germany during WW2, but I just felt like it tried to do too much all at once.
Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy of this audiobook. All opinions are mine.