Year 2, week 13: The Last Days of Night

This week's book:
The Last Days of Night
By Gram Moore

This week's book was a book group book. This historical fiction book is the last book for our group this year. I'm going to be honest here and say I was not really looking forward to reading it. I mean a lot of the books from this last year of group have just not been my cup of tea. All of these books have been different and very informative, but many of them have been very hard hitting topics that aren't always so easy to to get into. I mean give a girl a break.

The book from this week is about the current war between Edison and Westinghouse, with a little Tesla thrown in for good measure. The topic did not sound fun to me. Two men fighting over who created the light bulb and Edison suing Westinghouse for ripping off his original light bulb. The story is about the lawsuit and the lawyer that Westinghouse hiried. The plot wasn't grabbing me until about half way through the book. I still wouldn't say that I loved the book, but it was very informative.

My husband and I watch the Big Bang Theory, which is a television show about four highly intelligent men and the women in their lives. I knew the names of the inventors in the novel before I started the book because they are discussed on the show, but I will now be able to enjoy the show even more now that I have read the book. In fact every time Tesla’s relationship with Agnes came up in the book it made me think of Penny and Sheldon's relationship on The Big Bang Theory.

I had seen a trailer in the movie theater at time point for a film called The Current War starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison. The film looks like it is about the race for who is going to be the inventor of the light bulb and electrical king. I'm not entirely sure they will face the lawsuit, more likely they will just focus on each of the men trying to best each other. The film was set to be released in 2017, but the project is one of Harvey Weinstein's last works before all of the allegations came to the forefront, so the film has been shelved until Weinstein isn't such poison to everything.

So to wrap up, I would definitely recommend the book if you enjoy historical fiction or if you want to get a jump on the film that will eventually come out.