Finished “Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer on the train ride home last night. Turns out about the last 15-18% of the book are all the footnotes so I was much closer to being finished than I even realized. I was supposed to read this for book club months ago, but I wasn’t going to be able to make the meeting and I never started reading it.
I really enjoyed this a lot. Memory is a fascinating subject, and Foer did a great job of inter-splicing memory science, medicine, and lore. I don’t typically read non-fiction, but this was a great and very trade read. Perfect for someone who wants to learn but not feel like they are reading a textbook.
Edit: The cover makes sense once you’ve read the book which always makes me feel good. I always like being able to recognize more in a cover after a read.
I give this a solid A, and was enjoying it so much I got it for my mother-in-law.
18/50 and back on track.
Up next: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
At Yankee Stadium to watch my sister in law graduate from NYU. So proud of her.
So I received my quarterly check from Ebates in the mail yesterday, and got to test out the new check scan/deposit app from ING Direct on my phone.
I was a little skeptical but it was actually really easy to do. Plus, since ING doesn’t have any physical banks it’s nice to know that I can now deposit directly into my checking account.
I’m seriously impressed with the ability of the smartphone.
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I feel like May is completely slipping away from me. I’m about 75% of the way through “Moonwalking with Einstein” and I really want to finish it.
With the Boo finishing up with grad school and us moving, things have been a bit hectic. But I’m determined to still finish four books this month. The next two after Moonwalking will probably be Harry Potters though so I can catch up.
I’ll be honest, I find it really annoying when people make fun of other readers for reading a book after it has already been part of a frenzy and is coming out as a feature film. Who cares if you read the book when it first came out and then waited for the remaining books, if you joined late in the game and read all three in a row, or if you saw the movie first and then decided to read the books.
In the grand scheme of things, as long as your reading and enjoying what you’re reading that’s all that really matters.
(Source: jonbuscus)
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