A review by katsdc
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

5.0

I read this book for my book club and loved it! Sydney Padua's research was exhaustive and I loved how she used it to fill in the dialogue for the fictional part of the story. Ada Lovelace was a really fascinating woman that I knew nothing about prior to reading this book. She is an inspiration to women in the technical industry and this book really brings her to life.

The one thing I will say is that I chose to order the hardback version of the book based on Amazon reviews that the Kindle version made it difficult to read the footnotes. The footnotes provide a lot of neat commentary and historical research from the author that really added a lot to the beautiful comic she drew. So I'd recommend that you buy the hardcover version if you'd like to read it!