Hidden Figures

Here's a book that is just purely fascinating.  History books never mentioned African American women working for NASA, or even white women working for NASA.  But now their story is being told in Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly.  

The story takes place at the start of WWII, following the lives of 3 African American women, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine G. Johnson and their journey from working for the National Advisory Committee of Aeroautics (NACA) during the war, and transitioning to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the great space race during the Cold War.  These brilliant women worked at human computers with their advanced knowledge of mathematics and science.  It also talks about the struggle they went through while working for the government during the civil rights era.  Again, something history books would never mention.

There isn't really a whole lot to talk about especially plot wise because, well, it talks about the lives of 3 women instead of just one person.  And there is so much to mention in this review, I might as well say go buy the book and read it, which is true, buy the books and read it.  Now I have to pre warn you, the book has a lot of fancy math and science stuff that could be a little confusing to some people.  So if you want go see the movie, it has Octavia Spencer and Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory for crying out loud.  But if you wanna take a shot at it I say go for it!  If not, definitely see the movie, I know I will when I get the chance.

So there's my review for this awesome book.  Next one will be whenever I finish reading it.  Don't forget to check out alll off my other reviews I've done ... All 8 of them!  I'm just kidding, there's only 9!