This was a book about a girl with C.F. She is faced with challenges everyday. But, when she's doing a math problem or pondering infinity it's like everything sinks away. This book is very beautiful. It is in fact a little hard to understand when it talks about in infinity. I rated this book five stars because it was amazing and it gave me something to thank about. I recommend this book to people who love math or love a wonderful story. This is one of my favorite books of all time. I first read it as a junior in High School, and related to deeply to some of the issues that the protagonist faces. While I did not have the added stress of dealing with cystic fibrosis, I felt empathy towards her feelings of meaninglessness. Somehow, Halpin describes life and death in a way that makes each individual seem meaningful. I felt comforted in his descriptions of infinity, rather than terrified as I normally do. The voice was beautiful and there were passages that touched me so deeply that I framed them. The ending was beautiful, and was not overwritten or trite. “But here, Ms. Pelletier, is the thing. Without infinitesimals, the calculus as we know and love it simply wouldn't exist. It is these nearly-zero, sort-of-zero, sometimes-zero quantities that allow us to understand the world. Something which seems to be nearly nothing turns out to be crucial to everything. So though I, or for you that matter, or any of us, may be, as a collection of atoms, practically indistinguishable from zero, this does not necessarily mean we are insignificant. Indeed, it may be that we are actually crucially important.” ― Brendan Halpin, Forever Changes
Do You like book Forever Changes (2008)?
labeled ya, but isn't. no vampires. halpin's books have an emotional core that is so rare ...
—itsmeclorene
wow. this book really has taught me that i am lucky and i should not be ungrateful
—Zrayz10
This better than expected. It had me in tears at the end.
—aminak82c
