The Reading Challenge Group discussion

December's genre is Humour/Humor. The group read is You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself.

I found it at the library so hoping to read it soon.

I am currently reading this. It's very interesting and easy to read. I'm learning loads of new things, some of them pretty surprising. The way it's set in chapters also makes it easy to read.

Is anyone reading this one?

I'm reading it too - about halfway through and really like it. It's fascinating to see how the mind plays tricks on you.

And I keep telling myself I am not like that and I'm different, haha!

Finished this - it was interesting and yeah I too kept thinking 'not me' even as he disproved concept after concept.

Just finished it this morning and I'd really recommend it. It's surprinsingly fun.

I found this book to be repetitive and not as interesting as I first thought it would be. After I read the first chapter I was very intrigued and wanted to read more. However, each chapter felt like a repeat of the one before, just discussing a psychological study and stating the author's opinion on why that particular issue was not true. I scanned the book for the few issues I found most intriguing and read those chapters. The psychological studies were very interesting to read about.

It was a bit repetitive, I agree with you Brenda. I would say that's the main flaw of the book.

Cindy wrote: "Finished this - it was interesting and yeah I too kept thinking 'not me' even as he disproved concept after concept."

I think that's one reason why I scanned for those that I thought I did not do. There were many truths that he stated that I said, "yes of course that's correct." Those misconceptions that I did believe to be truths were the best ones to read to hear his argument as to why and read the studies done around them.

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