The 2018 Reading Challenge - #40 - Your favourite Prompt from 2015 / 2016 / 2017 Reading Challenge

Hello bookworms :)

Closing in on the end, only 10 book to read, and at this point I am so sure that I´ll not do this whole Reading Challenge again next year, this is the pure stress ;)
But first of all lets finish this challenge shall we ^^
Today I have my choice for the category - Your favourite Prompt from 2015 / 2016 / 2017 Reading Challenge - and I kind of have to admit that I cheated a tiny little bit...not fully since this book was my choice for a prompt from last year.
The prompt was, as far as I remember, A book written by or about a person with a disability and my choice would have been the following...and this book is on my tbr list for the longest time:

A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988.

Hawking wrote the book for nonspecialist readers with no prior knowledge of scientific theories.

In A Brief History of Time, Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and eventual fate of the universe, which is the object of study of astronomy and modern physics. He talks about basic concepts like space and time, basic building blocks that make up the universe (such as quarks) and the fundamental forces that govern it (such as gravity). He writes about cosmological phenomena such as the Big Bang and black holes. He discusses two major theories, general relativity and quantum mechanics, that modern scientists use to describe the universe. Finally, he talks about the search for a unifying theory that describes everything in the universe in a coherent manner.

The book became a bestseller and sold more than 10 million copies in 20 years. It was also on the London Sunday Times bestseller list for more than five years and was translated into 35 languages by 2001. ¹

Again a little summary from goodreads:

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"In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout."

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I´ll give it a 9 out of 10

I knew I would love this book and I can say that even tho I have a few pages left to read.
I have always been hugely interested in everything about cosmology and general physics...even tho I had the worst grades in school ;) but I loved it anyways ^^ haha and this book was waiting to be read for so so so long now and it was worth it, I loved it and still love it, I just want to take my time with reading it, to just get everything and not miss a single sentence, word or fact.
Of cause it is a book for everybody and I thing everyone can and will enjoy reading this, but a general interest in the topic is probably helpful ;)

Some more inspiration? Here are the prompts from the last three years:
Which one was your favourite one?

2015

2016

2017

Which book did you choose for this category?

Did you read A Brief History of Time or do you still want to?

With lots of love

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