Title: Moonwalking with Einstein
Author: Joshua Foer
Pages: 8 discs?
Genre: Non-Fiction
Grade: B
Synopsis: Joshua Foer has been a reporter for Slate Magazine and others covering the World Memory Championships for a few years, when he gets the idea that with some focused training he could compete at the US and World Memory Championships. Throughout the book as he documents his training regiment, he also explores the history of memory, what has been done in the past to help improve memory and other related topics.
My Review: This book is in the same vein as The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, both by A.J. Jacobs. My memory is absolutely terrible, and while the book focused on what it takes to become a memory champion, I didn't find a while lot of tips that would be helpful for remembering things and occurrences from everyday life. Memory champions focus on memorizing decks of cards, strings of random numbers and similar things. Not the type of things that I encounter in a typical day.
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