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What comes first: the movie or the book?

May 21, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I have to admit that I have not yet seen the movie, although I heard about it before I knew there was a book. I was planning to see the movie when it came out on DVD and now it has, except now I worry about what the movie does to the book. It’s a dilemma. Hidden Figures is a good book, and a fairly easy read. For a book about mathematicians, it’s not too technical, but it has enough detail about the math and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: civil rights, Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly, mathematicians, nasa, space, US History

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: civil rights, Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly, mathematicians, nasa, space, US History ·
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