Origins#6

I chose to read this book because I thought it would offer me a good way to learn more about astronomy and physics. I expected the book to be more difficult to understand than it actually is. Towards the end of the book, the author's write about the search for life on other planets and the ways in which new galaxies can be formed. These topics are very interesting, yet I still found it hard to push myself into reading this book. As I read, the subject matter was pretty much what I expected, but I did expect to be more confused as I read farther; the subject matter getting more complex as the book progressed. To my delight, I found this not to be true. There were a couple chapters where I just had no idea what the book was talking about; there was a section about the universal constant that made absolutely no sense. But all in all, the subject matter was very interesting. I find that if a book is overly complicated, I stop trying to understand the content; I just let my eyes skim over the words without really understanding them. I let myself do this a few times within the complicated chapters, but overall, I was usually engaged with the book's content and was actively trying to understand it.