Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I was ridiculously excited when Alan Alda’s If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?:  My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating showed up on my phone.  (I love that digital holds are automatically borrowed from the library when they become available.)  After the sad strangeness of my last audiobook I was looking forward to something funny, and really, how can Alan Alda not be funny?  (He can’t not.  Period.)  What I glossed over slightly in my mind was the subtitle, which states exactly what the book is; rather than a memoir, it’s a book about what he’s learned about empathy and ‘theory of mind’, especially as they relate to communication in general and communication in science in particular.  It’s amusing, yes, because it’s by ALAN ALDA, and he reads it himself, but it’s informative enough that it wasn’t quite as distracting on the elliptical as I wanted it to be.  If I had it to do over again, I’d read it instead of listening to it.

I’d still absolutely read it, you understand.  Both because it was incredibly interesting and because, well, ALAN ALDA!