demosthenes 's review for:

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

3.75

challenging informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

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Super interesting, I really liked it! I learned a lot, and I wasn't bogged down by boring descriptions. It was informational but not dry, and I always got a little kick of intellectual pleasure whenever I found a new little fun fact. It makes me feel unique, knowing about these elements (like that meme with one person at a party, and im the person, and im thinking 'nobody knows that polonium was found by Marie Curie and is named after the Latin word for Poland (Polonia) and not Polonius from Hamlet,' thats what im thinking).