The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

I started out loving this book. It's a cool mix of a great story (young prodigy is selected to win an award by the Smithsonian) with side panels containing fascinating extensions of the plot illustrated to match the skills of the prodigy. Very clever. Unique for a fiction book, perhaps.

But the book became work. It was hard to focus on the story with all those clever side panels leading you off in a hundred different directions.

Very mixed feelings about this book. Brilliant but difficult.