2: Break into the Top 2000 of Living Social

I don't know about you but I love making lists and getting rankings. Maybe its a guy thing. Maybe its some sort of nervous tick. I don't know.Maybe its a thing about competition. What I do know is that when I woke up this morning I was in a competition with millions of people and they don't even know it. I'm even competing with some of my friends in this but they don't know either. This competition is on living social, a social networking site on which to track what books you're reading. You can use it to track other things too but I'm sticking with the books at the moment.

This morning's rank was 2778 and that was with 591 books read. However that was this morning. Since then I have finished a book. That book was "The Psychic Tourist" by William Little. The author has a on and off relationship with psychic-ality. He got his sister and his niece a birth chart simply as a gift which then predicted their death by water. His sister has got freaked out by this and so he goes on a mission to try and find out if there is any truth to matter of predicting the future. He talks to lots of different folk including Derren Brown, some witches and Richard Dawkins. If you know anything about any of these folks then you'll know what there different takes are on it. (The author seemed surprised that Dawkins wanted evidence not just a knee jerk anti-stance.)

You'll most likely have your take on this too. You'll either be a believer or a sceptic. I have to say I'm towards the sceptical end of the spectrum and some of the tales are tragic, like the man who was predicted either he or his son would die so he killed himself. And this book will do nothing to change your viewpoint on the matter. There are some interesting digressions into the potential scientific basis of such powers. Surprisingly its all to do with quantum.

What I'll remember: Most memorable will be the idea of quantum entnaglement and this somehow being able to move consciousness around in time. Or the idea of the time machine that can only travel back as far as the time when it was switched on. As you can probably tell I didn't fully understand the more sciency bits.

So how has this helped me to reach my goal. I'm now at rank 2766 with 592 books read.
Wooh.

Edited: As I got the book total wrong.