A review by beatsbybeard
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

4.0

Stories upon stories of people whose relationship with music has been impacted in some way by goings-on in the brain. We have a man who develops an intense passion for playing Chopin after being struck by lightning; Parkinson's patients who can only stutter and jerk but find fluidity and calm when moving to music; dementia patients who can sing catalogs of songs from their youth but couldn't tell you what the words they're singing mean; and all sorts of other interesting ways that our brains control how we interact with music. This book got me back into reading after college, and I figured it was time for a re-read five years later. Very glad I did!