UCSB Reads chose Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
The book recounts Foer’s yearlong quest to improve his memory resulting in his winning the US Memory Championship. Foer explores the history of memory, how memory is measured, notable people who have good memories.
UCSB Reads is a common reading experience that engages the campus and the broader Santa Barbara community in conversations about a key topic while reading the same book. There have been panel discussions at public libraries with local experts discussing memory. Skona Brittan from SB Family School was on the panel at the Montecito library and used Daughter as a memory showcase. She had memorized pi up to 314 digits (get it 3.14?) Pretty cool.
