I listened to this through the Libby app. I’d had it on my TBR for years. It was an enjoyable listen but mostly a recap for me of things I learned in undergrad classes.

I wish that I’d read this ages ago!

Nice short pop sci, lots of good tips on how to remember more, and biology/psychology of memory

I had no idea Genova was a neuroscientist when I read Still Alice. This new book is very good at explaining the science of memory in terms which a lay person can understand. The various types of memory, how they are formed, some of the things you can do to improve those different types, and the differences between plain old ordinary forgetting and Alzheimer's/dementia are explored. The experiments done to get to this point of our understanding of the human brain were very interesting.

A very quick and engaging read, with a nice bibliography at the end if you want to go deeper.

A wonderfully down to earth explanation of how we remember and why we fail at it so much of the time.