What I'm reading ...

I have started The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson. Time for some lighter reading and I enjoyed the author’s last book. Here’s the blurb:

Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . .

Nombeko Mayeki was never meant to be a hero. Born in a Soweto shack, she seemed destined for a short, hard life. But now she is on the run from the world's most ruthless secret service, with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders.

As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations.

Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe - by Steven Strogatz

This book did a great job of taking a complex, highly technical subject and explaining what it’s about and why it’s important. It never sets out to teach the reader calculus, but it explains how we got to where we are, why people do learn it and many of the applications and benefits that have been gained from it.

It is written in a very accessible style, which makes it a fairly easy read. I might accuse the author of a bit of repetition, but maybe that was necessary to push home some of his points. I still would not know what to do with a partial differential equation, but I o understand why people endeavour solve them.