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Jessica McCabe: How to ADHD (EBook, 2024, Harmony/Rodale/Convergent) 5 stars

Diagnosed with ADHD at age twelve, Jessica struggled with a brain that she didn’t understand. …

Ironically hefty for an ADHD book, "How to ADHD" is packed with Jessica McCabe's familiar blend of humor, good info, and humanity. Contrary to its intimidating size, the book is designed to be picked up and put down again, started from just about any chapter, used as a reference; in short, it is designed to be used by people with ADHD.

Noam Assayag: Activating Cities (Paperback, 2021, Circadian) 5 stars

A practical handbook on the lost art of getting lost, reading the signs around you, …

One of the beautiful things about traveling to a new city is the way it can open our eyes to the "newness" of things we'd grown accustomed to. When my wife and I visit new places, for example, we have made a habit of inspecting and comparing the pedestrian "walk" signals (or, as we like to call them, the "blinky walky men"). Some are much jauntier than others!

Activating Cities is a handbook for finding and creating that feeling of freshness, whether you're in a city for the first time or in the city you've lived in your entire life. With games, rituals, poems, and stories, bite-sized and boot-tested across the streets and sidewalks of many cities, I found this book both a delight to read and to practice. Highly recommended if you can get your hands on it!