Jackie's recommendation of a wonderful little book worth reading 142857 times (at least).

There are books who find you on the "right" moment of your life, and impress a sign in your soul irreversibly.

Some of these are deep-and-difficult.

But others are wonderful little pearls - with a lot of humour, too!

This encounter happened to our member Jackie when a child, and...

Nut: why do we need to translate from English to English? I pass the microphone to her directly:

Jackie's message:

"I saw that we have a place for inspiring books in the repository site, so I decided to post the name of a book that inspired me as a kid, so some gals that may read this can buy it when they happen to come around it.

It is called "The Man Who Calculated" by Malba Tahan. It tells the story of a man who calculated very interesting stuff, and it is a very nice read. It inspired me when I was young, and maybe it was because I read that he had fun with math that I later on decided math was worth giving a try.

I have the link to get the book to read for free, but unfortunately it is only in Spanish. English readers can google it for a summary, and buy it through Amazon.

Here is the link:

Have fun!"

And no question: the fun is there, bubbling and waiting for you!

I'm getting my ration of it, directly from the Spanish edition.

English speaking readers may find the book under the title "The Man who Counted".

Last, about the number in this post' title: why 142857 times (at least)?

I'm about to give no answer - but read the book, and you'll discover on yourself.

Love

Mauri and Jackie