Weekend Reading

The employees at Telesian do a lot of reading. In many cases, you'll find our noses buried in the latest technology book. But once in awhile we find a little time on the weekend to read something outside the scope of business.

This recommendation comes from our good friend Michael Reidy in Britain. He loved our John Fowles highlight last month and countered with an equally intriguing book recommendation.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

This book is a first novel and a tour de force. Quirky and witty, it follows a girl, the daughter of a peripatetic and perpetual "visiting professor," through her senior year of high school. Her thoughts are peppered with (footnoted) references to books, films, and web sites in a blizzard of wisdom and trivia. The main plot has a darker side, with questions asked about the identities of central characters, and there is all the usual high school cruelty. While a highly original work, it will remind readers of Donna Tartt's debut novel, A Secret History, but Special Projects does not suffer by the comparison.

(Penguin, 2007)

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