The Great Love Affair

God, I miss, so much, having someone to talk to. Someone who actually wants to have an intellectual conversation. Not that conversations with Ty, the only person left here this summer isn't stimulating, lol. And Kayla, I tried talking to her the other day about this book I'm reading, and my thoughts about it and all that. She just stared back at me with the same blank look I give her when she starts talking about some complex procedure at work. I'm just at that point in the summer where I can't wait to go back to university.

This book I have been reading, is called Passionate Minds. I've been putting off reading for a little while because of school and stuff, but I finally have the chance to read it now, since I'm not in France :/. Its about Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and "the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment". It's so interesting. It's written like a novel, about their lives, their work, their love affair, their influence on each other, etc, but its actually all based on facts from letters and manuscripts and stuff like that. It's also uncovering a lot of information about Emilie du Chatelet, that hasn't been revealed before. Like how apparently Einstein based a great deal of his theory of relativity on her work. It talks about the great contribution she had towards the enlightenment and Newton's work and that, but how she didn't get credit or recognition for any of it because she was a woman in the 18th century.

Best book I've read in a while.