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A Thousand Days Of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle Of His Daughter's Developing Mind (2009)

by Charles Fernyhough(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1583333479 (ISBN13: 9781583333471)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Avery

review 1: I was hoping for a little more hard science, and so the glowing, effluescent style of this book put me off at first, but as I moved through, I saw in Fernyhough's writing the "wonder" of the title as he watches his daughter come into humanity (or at least out of infancy and into childhood). Not the book I expected, but I'm glad to have read it, especially at this moment when I am reflecting on my son's passage through the same period and watching my daughter in the thick of it.
review 2: I came into this book with certain expectations. I was expecting a light, anecdotal, informative book about child development from birth to toddler years-- an expectation based on an interview I heard with the author on Radio Lab (aired on my local NPR station). The reality is... more that this book is more a personal memoir of a man raising his daughter with his musings on her development through the filter of his research and studies. It lacked the lightness and the generic fun that I really enjoyed in the interview and it ended up feeling too personal for me to be able to apply it to my own experience. So, after 2 months and only 139 pages read (and .40 in late fees at my library), I'm calling this one done. less

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