Title: “I’ll Just Be 5 More Minutes: and Other Tales From My ADHD Brain”

Author: Emily Farris

Genre: Biography & Memoir, Entertainment, Parenting & Families

Publication Date: February 6, 2024

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

“I’ll Just Be 5 More Minutes: and Other Tales From My ADHD Brain” is a collection of personal essays by Emily Farris about her life experiences before and after her diagnosis. She examines her past with a fresh perspective now knowing she is neurodivergent, and also shares very relatable stories about the ways in which she still struggles in her everyday life after learning she has ADHD.

Farris is a very humorous writer who holds nothing back when it comes to the ways in which she has struggled, and continues to struggle, with ordinary things like checking in with her spouse, paying bills, and focusing on one thing far too much or not focusing on anything at all when she knows she should. 

The essays and lists contained in this book are definitely worth a read, whether you are neurodivergent or neurotypical. If you also struggle with ADHD, I am sure there is much to be found in Farris’s writing to make you feel you are not alone. If you know, or live with, someone with ADHD the same applies, and if you are in neither of these situations in your own life, this essay collection is still readable and engaging.

Thank you to NetGalley and Hachette Books for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.