WE happen to have a very talented writer among us! Phillip B. Persinger is a regular reader of my blog. He has come out with his first book: Do the Math recently. It is a funny, zany book about lost love and finding love later in life. Here’s the set up:
“William Teale is a brilliant professor of mathematics. His theory of inevitability posits that any human action, no matter how insignificant, might result in a disproportionately huge calamity.
His wife, Virginia “Faye” Warner, is a world-famous romance novelist who specializes in reuniting soul mates after a tragic and prolonged separation. According to her math, “one past and two hearts plus one love equals four-ever.” The Teale-Warner marriage is a thing of geometric and artistic perfection, a melding of the heart and the brain-amour and algebra.
But when Faye’s ghostwriter suffers a nervous breakdown and shakes all the arrows out of Cupid’s quiver, Faye reintroduces her husband to love. Unfortunately, it’s not with herself, but with the woman William had loved and lost years ago. Love is about to clash with inevitability, and it’s unclear which will emerge victorious.
Told in the off-beat voice of William’s graduate intern, Roger, Do the Math reveals the curious relationship between logic and love and the delightful consequences of taking a chance.”
The writing is brilliant as the young intern slowly learns about the bizarre going’s on at his respected professor’s house.
I enjoyed the various ways it pokes fun at academia, a time honored tradition among we who have slaved away at the old university for decades. It gave new meaning to one of my favorite made-up words: academ-idiots!!! I also cracked up as the math nerds struggled to find love.
Read it! It’s a fun summer diversion!
