Book Reflection Moonwalking With Einstein - 1496 Words

Book Reflection: â€Å"Moonwalking with Einstein† Joshua Foer did an excellent job on using real world experience to write about his quest to find out as much as he could about memory. He went to competitions, university’s, research labs and many other places to make sure he was ready to reach his goal. A goal that he made when he was intrigued by memory capacity of these seemingly normal people in a memory tournament. Foer an article write, wrote all about his adventure in the book â€Å"Moonwalking with Einstein†. He went into detail of how his fascination with memory started and how he ended up in the finals of the USA Memory Championship. All of this interested me because memory is what makes us who we are all of our life experience help us know who we are and where we came from. And without memory it would be a hard world to live since memory is what keeps us focused on life and what we are doing with it. I learned in this book that our memory is what makes us self-aware and is ever changing thing with unknown limits. This book caught my attention because of multiple things mainly the reviews, unique title, and topic. When I was looking through the book list I found nothing but books describing the same issue. They all were having issues with the content been repetitive and not much was offered other than the main idea been paraphrased in different ways. So, when I saw the reviews on this book I naturally grew interested especially with the catchy title it has. Also, the topic