Why Do We Read is a new book blog founded by our good friend Jo Reader. We get quite a few emails asking for reading material and books to help stimulate your brains. Well WDWR is the perfect place to get them. In fact a good chunk of the books we recommend have at some point come from them.
They do concentrate on a lot of the subjects we do here as well – so you’ll see the familiar names like Richard Wiseman and his wonderful books, Carl Sagan and James Randi – plus also a few more including the fabulous Atheist Guide to Xmas featuring our very own Derren Brown. We’ve sent them Derren’s books to read and they have promised us they will be reviewing them soon.
So far it’s small but growing rapidly and they’ve told us that commenters will be picked at random to receive a book each month – so if you’ve read anything on there, leave a short review in a comment and you could win some free stuff. They’re also open to suggestion so if people want new categories researching they’ll do the hard work for you.
You can follow them on @whydoweread and each book reviewed pops up on there. You can send in your reading requests (apparently they have over 450 books waiting to go up) for any subject they cover and we have received news that possibly the most incredible competition you’ve seen in a while is on it’s way to win an extremely expensive magic book worth over £130. Keep your eyes peeled.
Looks like a really great blog.
Also nice to know someone’s willing to ‘wade through all the crap’.
I trust ‘Jeremy Kyle – I’m Only Being Honest’ will not be featured. That took up far too much space in my local branch of Waterstones.
Never had opportunity to read any of their books. I’ll give a peek.
Anybody find it strange that the book blog is founded by a woman called Jo READER?
- we always though this about the the guy who programmed our art site Jonathan Brain (no seriously that is his name) – we refer to this – http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3940475.htm I like the second one: A Science Channel documentary about the “biggest explosions in the universe” was narrated by John Shrapnel – Phillis
‘We Do We Read’ lol thought it was some Cartesian treatise
@ Phillis My Health teacher at school had a book on her shelf called ‘Oh! Sex Education’. Author – Mary Breasted. I almost killed myself laughing!
@Jess xxx Your comment becomes even funnier when you see the site theme of Why Do We read was done by “Blog Oh! Blog”
Eheheheh …. we do we read … a typo, a brain-swop! I thought at first that it was one of those weird titles that seem to have more in them than they have .. till the title got repeated and it got a whole new (and simple) meaning.
We Do …. We Read … hm, pretty active .. and passive .. ehehehe ..
Oh well …
Bill Hicks gag – what you reading for?
Are hieroglyphs not an early form of writing well before 100BC? Also I thought phishing was to do with junk email, my IT knowledge is lacking but I do have at least half a brain if not a tad more. I dont care for this site and am strangely insulted.
- Best take it up with them then. Not sure about hieroglyphs (or why that’s relevant here – but “phishing” (something WE DO know about) is any attempt to gain user/pass details via any electronic method (email, fake sites, instant messaging). Your free to look all this up on Wikipedia, it only takes a minute (IT knowledge not really required) and might stop your half a brain getting so easily insulted. – Phillis
Usually don’t do this, but this book deserves a mention. It’s called “Pulse” by Jeremy Robinson. “Imagine a world where soldiers regenerate and continue fighting without pause, where suicide bombers live to strike again and again. This is the dream of Richard Ridley, founder of Manifold Genetics, and he has just discovered the key to eternal life: an ancient artifact buried beneath a Greek-inscribed stone in the Peruvian desert.”
http://www.jeremyrobinsononline.com