DrCris Reads

Bookcrossing on Twitter

March 30, 2009 Bookclubs, links 2 Comments

Many of you know, I have become a bit of a twitter fiend. Recently, I realised there is an active bookcrossing community on twitter. If you tweet, and bookcross, then consider following some of those listed below.

• For a start, take a look at the Bookcrossing twitter group
• BR Directory - updates about bookring progress from http://geocities.com/bookrings/welcome.html
• Bookcrossing in Greece
  Active english conversations about bookcrossing
• Ron Hornbaker, founder of Bookcrossing doesn’t update his twitter feed

And some Aussie bookcrossers I have found include:

• The famous Aussie Taxi-driving Bookcrosser, Skyring
• Woosang

is another active Aussie bookcrosser.

Anybody know any more?

Who have you been this week?

March 23, 2009 Why reading?, links 3 Comments

Read often. Read Regularly. Read Daily.

Reading is vital because it gives us a view onto a different world. Jesse Hines at Robust Writing shares a treatise on why reading enriches us. He makes the point that non-readers are trapped in their own world-view, with no chance at an alternative perspective. It’s an amazing image, and one that feels true for me.

This week I have been a bumbling publisher who makes bad decisions, and also a 72 year old, non-englsh speaking General, betrayed by a friend. Who have you been?

Read more of the article here

Could the books be making you dumb?

September 1, 2008 What to Read, links 2 Comments

Could there be an association between books you read and your intelligence. Virgil Griffith has tested the theory by comparing favourite books listed on Facebook with average SAT scores. This is a fun list, but obviously a bit pseudoscience.

But if we suspend belief for a little bit, to become smarter, we should be reading Lolita, 100 years of solitude, Freakonomics and Crime and Punishment. And it would be better to avoid Zane, The Color Purple, Fahrenheit 451 and even the Bible.