The Slow Reader

The wrap-up episode for The Saturday Night Ghost Club! A bit of a tweak in the format, without any specific summaries of the book. I answer some questions that I asked last episode, and set up the next book! Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower Blog: https://www.noformatblog.ca Support The Slow Reader by contributing to the...

I'm very excited to start a new book! This wasn't entirely intended (influenced only by when I received the book from the library), but The Saturday Night Ghost Club (by Craig Davidson) starts today with episodes 1-4, right when most other people are watching Stranger Things 3 (I've only seen the first season + the first episode of season 2 so far). This is a spooky book, and really good so far. S...

This bonus episode contains a full read of "Murder and Suicide, Respecively" by Ryan North, a story from the first Machine of Death short story collection! Buy the book from Amazon if you haven't ever read it before. Get in touch with me on Twitter to discuss theories about this story! Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower B...

This is it! The final episode for Gone, a novel by Michael Grant. We get some answers and everything wraps up (mostly) with only a handful of open threads for future books. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower Blog: https://www.noformatblog.ca Support The Slow Reader by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.c...

Plenty of new information revealed in these chapters, including the cause of The Fayz! Or part of the cause. This is the penultimate episode for Gone coverage, with chapters 39 - Final coming in 2 weeks' time. Read 'All Our Relations' by Tanya Talaga - it's a really important book that I think everyone needs to read. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/u...

After a lengthy delay, a 12-chapter update for Gone, chapters 20-32. Things are really heating up, and if this were a movie we'd be pretty close to the third act by now. There are going to be two more episodes for Gone, before moving on to the next book. Enjoy! Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower Blog: https://www.noformat...

I doubled my reading output and read 6 chapters over 2 weeks. Covering off chapters 13 through 19 in this episode, things have escalated very quickly in Perdido Beach. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower Blog: https://www.noformatblog.ca Support The Slow Reader by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/ja...

Returning to Gone (Michael Grant) this week with chapters 10-12. There's a lot of new information learned in these 3 chapters. Also, this is really a slow-read. Also in this episode: re-reading Dune alongside the Dune Subreddit . Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower Blog: https://www.noformatblog.ca Support The Slow Reader...

This episode starts off my coverage of Gone by Michael Grant. I read chapters 1-9 (17% of the book). Pick up your copy of Gone from the Library or at Amazon . Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2474979-stephen-gower Blog: https://www.noformatblog.ca Support The Slow Reader by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/slow-re...

Book two of The Slow Reader: Erebos, written by Ursula Poznanski and translated by Judith Pattinson. "It's a game. It watches you." Intriguing tag line that lead to another fun, quick read from the library. Also discussed the podcast "Wild Thing", which you can find at https://www.foxtopus.ink/wildthing Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/24749...

The first book covered for The Slow Reader: Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn. In this episode I talk briefly about the sequel to Zahn's 2017 novel, and talk a tiny bit also about Star Trek: Discovery. This is a short episode, but hopefully future episodes will be a little bit more in depth and a little bit longer. This book has been read in full, so as to get a head start. Twitter: https://www.tw...

Welcome to the Slow Reader, a podcast about books. I'm Stephen Gower (host of Alternative Airwaves & co-host of Futurama Pedia), and this is just about books that I'm reading. There will be light spoilers, so consider this a warning now! This trailer episode introduces you to the concept of the podcast. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stephen_g Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...