The Periodic Table

It is a perfect memoir, the author highlighted the fragments of his life which is the basic skeleton of his likelihood. The way he incorporated so many chemistry metaphors with his philosophical and psychological views was a joyous read for me. Each of the chapter titles and the contents had deep(sometimes shallow) connections throughout the book although The second fable he incorporated in the middle section was kind of broke the sequence for me and it felt unnecessary

Now onto my personal opinion- I would be much more delighted if the chemistry portion was highlighted much more here since I was very much looking forward to reading the science bit in every chapter, some of the chapters seemed a bit dull to me which had very minuscule chemistry on it. But I suppose it has the perfect balance for someone who isn't too interested in the science part or has a hard time understanding it. Still, I wanted more science bits since the Royal institute awarded it ‘Best science book of all time'

I especially liked how he incorporated his scientific philosophy into his regular life too which is always fun to read because I could see from this book how passionate he was about chemistry. my favourite chapters were Nitrogen and Carbon, also the part where the synthesised fats in Auschwitz
3.75 for me .......okay maybe 4.