Book giveaways
Dec 1, 2009 Events, Special Offers, Updates
For those of you who did not find the bottle of ether in the Taschen Magic book, here it is – the lucky winner is Paul Asselin, who also correctly kept his written piece to under 100 words.
We’re also sending Katie and Mike a copy of 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman each for our “leave a comment, win a book” giveaway.
Leave a comment: win a book.
Nov 5, 2009 General, Special Offers, Updates
If you leave a comment on a book here that you’ve read. Simply say so, leave a few words about it and each month we will award the best commenter with a book of their choice from our lists.
We will be running this for a few months and as soon as we start to see more reviews we’ll be upping what we give away. So WATCH THIS SPACE!
Jo
Hello People
Oct 27, 2009 General, Special Offers, Specialist Subjects, Updates
Welcome to Why We Read, my own personal take on what is and isn’t worth reading. Having worked in a library, a school and a university as an IT specialist for 8 years I would find myself scouring through books for something decent to read.
The vast majority of books out there seem to garner their credibility on a gutter press quote on the jacket or a reader top 10 list that featured the likes of Jordan or some other equally vacuous celebrity. Training books always seem to offer to turn you in to a wizz in 24hrs and I’m always amazed at how hard it is to get a good recommendation.
So I intend to wade through all the crap out there and recommend a good solid reading list that will both entertain, inform and allow visitors to hopefully help build a complete list of worthwhile releases.
If you have any books that you feel are important and a good read then please email me and we will review.
Enjoy
Joe
