The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. By: Michael Easter. Almost done and really like it. Good mix of research and personal stories. Love the idea of a major challenge every year to keep the mind & body going. Lots of discussion of how our lives have changed in the last 100 years and unforeseen impacts on our bodies. Making me want to check off a bucket list- buying a tiny cabin in the woods to escape to for a few weeks/year.
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again. By: Johann Hari. This guy has a lot of great points about why we can't focus (digital screens, immediate gratification in most ways, it's fucking with our sleep, etc). I listened on my commute. The author reads it. He's got a voice like Marvin the Martian. Made it impossible to listen to. He also comes off as just a whiner. And he does a month on a vacation island with no cell phone, nothing digital, etc. Fucking great for him! Who can afford that? And my wife finished it and said at the end he talks about how he went almost right back to using his phone all the time. Way to lead by example!
Punk Paradox by Greg Graffin. Bad Religion singer's autobiography. Good stuff about his youth, why he hates some bands, behind the scenes band stories (not ones that are in Do What You Want, which is an outsider's bio on the whole band).
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl. Autobiography. Great stories about his life, with a shorter than expected section on Nirvana. Actually, I guess I should have expected it. He tells some funny shit, like when he asked a realtor to find him a really private house. She asked how many acres and he blurted "400". Pretty close to DC.
She found an old farm house with like 100 acres. They went to visit and he was shocked at how much land there was. She said "it's 1/4 the size you said you wanted!" So then he asked "how big is an acre?" and was surprised at how big.