I picked this book up off a book exchange shelf at a campground I stayed at last summer...I think it was Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan. I've only just started reading it now, but I think I'm going to enjoy it.

So, what if you could spend a few hours with Albert Einstein? What would you ask? How would the conversation go? This is the premise of Please, Mr. Einstein. A young woman (who we only ever know as "the girl") makes her way to an apartment in an old building in a city. There, she joins a number of other people in sort of waiting room. No one's talking much and several of the other visitors are dressed oddly. She sits down to wait, but for some reason, she is called in first, before others who have clearly been waiting for quite some time. Down the hallway, in a sort of study or office, she meets Mr. Einstein...and the conversation begins...

As I said before, I picked up Please, Mr. Einstein off a book exchange shelf at a Cypress Hills Campground in Saskatchewan. Sometime's it's a good thing to run out of things to read on vacation, otherwise I'd never have seen this book. I enjoyed reading it. I hope you do too.

I'll be taking this book with me to Cafe D'Amour this evening for our monthly BookCrossing get together. If no one takes it home, it will stay on the shelf patiently awaiting its next reader.

I couldn't resist taking this book when K-i-s-m-e-t brought it to the meeting last night.

Imagine you could visit Einstein and ask him questions about his theories and his life and physics and philosophy and war and many other subjects. In this book a young woman does that but the visit takes place 50 years after Einstein died. What an interesting idea and one that is pulled off quite well.
The young woman is nameless and the visit takes place in an apartment in some unidentified city which is probably somewhere in Europe where Einstein lived in his life. The woman had heard rumours that it was possible to contact Einstein and she tried several addresses before she happened on the right one. She was shown into a waiting room that contained a number of people including one who looked like Isaac Newton. She is not kept waiting too long before being shown in to the study where Einstein continues to exist and work. When she asks why she was shown in before the other people in the waiting room Einstein replies that it is because she is from the future which makes him glad because it means the world continued to exist despite the discovery of nuclear weapons. One of Einstein’s great regrets is that his theories led to the development of “weapons of mass destruction”. He was always a pacifist, protesting against the first and second world wars. Despite this philosophy he did write to President Roosevelt to urge him to commit the USA to developing an atomic bomb. That’s just one of the contradictions in Einstein’s life which this book explores. He was an atheist but he admits to believing in a great flautist that ensures the harmony of the Universe. If that’s not God (or a god) then I fail to see the difference.
There is a lot to assimilate in this little book as it explores physics from Galileo’s time to Higgs’ time (as in Higgs boson). However, there are also lots of anecdotes taken from Einstein’s life and if you have a high school knowledge of physics you will make it through the tougher bits with enjoyment.

I left this book on a bench at a pond on the Songbird Stroll. I figured that people who are interested in nature might also be interested in science in general. This release is for the 2015 52 Towns in 52 Weeks release challenge - Town # 44.

Found Please Mr.Einstein on a bench while I was with my grandson, we thought someone had forgotten it so we were going to turn it in to lost and found at the Creston Wildlife Centre. On closer inspection we seen the bookcrossing.com sticker on the front of the book and decided to check this out on line. What a fun idea! Have not read the book yet but will very soon and then send it on to travel some more!
The book is in Kimberley BC right now!