This illustrated guide explores the wonders and mysteries of the human brain. It tackles big questions like consciousness and free will in a playful way.

This informative book offers some insights I hadn’t heard before. The comics probably work well in a print book, but are difficult to read on a phone. They aren’t accessible using text-to-speech. If they were just illustrations, that wouldn’t be so bad. But they’re not; the content in the cartoons isn’t replicated in the text.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

i had a lot of fun reading this book as a person in an adjacent field. sort of like a look-at-the-forest-not-the-trees approach. i think it's very accessible to basically anyone with a passing interest in psychology/human behavior/neuroscience. i've also been a huge fan of jorge cham's comics for the longest time, so this was such a treat!
what i didn't like though was reading this on an iPad (the netgalley iPad app). the comics/drawings were SO pixelated, i felt like i needed an eye exam. the other text was okay and so i know it's the editing of the book that's the problem. this issue was also super visible on the laptop, unfortunately, which kind of ruined my enjoyment of the book a bit.

Okay, so this is not the typical book that I would read, but once I started I couldn't stop. Literally nine times out of ten I joke around that I have no brain, but the insight that this book gives you into your brain is really nice. Reading about why I feel certain emotions and want to hang on to them because of the hormones that they produce is nice. I really enjoyed reading this and even the quirky comic strips were nice and kept teh book interesting enough.