Some of the experiment outcomes made me laugh out loud, such as one about taking a gerbil on a Ferris wheel ("hypothesis: Gerbils would like bigger wheels."), which ended with "Gerbil not allowed on ride. Although the "experiments" are playful and silly and unrealistic, they could also be a good intro for thinking about science experiments and how they are conducted. Repeat three times a day until spring."), and "what happened" ("-stomachache -brain freeze -love of ketchup wavering").
It's about a nameless girl who performs 11 "science experiments." Each would be a stretch to call "experiments," given that the hypotheses are things like, "A kid can survive on a diet of snowballs and ketchup." But they're really fun and what's really great is that each "experiment" is written up like an actual science experiment, with a question ("Can a kid make it through the winter eating only snow and ketchup?"), hypothesis ("Ketchup and snow are the only food groups a kid needs"), "what you need"/materials list ("-ketchup -snow"), "what to do" ("1. However, it turned out to be something a lot more whimsical and fun than that. For some reason, I thought that 11 Experiments That Failed would be about historical experiments that failed, like. Full of myth, historical anecdote, scientific fact, cosmology and philosophy. The charisma and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour to Last ThingsĪ pleasure the read and a tender evocation of childhood. The unsentimental honesty means that the humour and the charm of the novel - both heavily in evidence - come exclusively from the writing
If last things means things that will last, then this novel is one of them Read more that you read without a clue as to what anyone will say or do next. Offill's remarkable first novel is crisply written, economically constructed and so inventive.
and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compressionĮngaging, funny, full of imagination, humour and invention. Offill creates for Grace a mesmerising imaginary world.
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