The Slow Reader

Catching up on several books that I've read in the last two months, in addition to covering off what I'm reading now and what I'll be reading in the future. Stay safe, stay healthy!

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My review of The MVP Machine, a book that covers the latest evolution of player development in Major League Baseball; the book is written by Travis Sawchik and Ben Lindburgh.

Podcasts mentioned in the episode:

Pr0ductive Outs

At The Letters - Sportsnet

Birds All Day - The Athletic

Birds All Day - Free Version

Music used in this episode:

"Baseball" by Guglielmo Brunelli - Jamendo

"Troll Baseball" by Fanny Roger - Jamendo

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Michael Ondaatje's 2018 novel Warlight is the subject of this episode of The Slow Reader. It's a difficult novel to read, but is well worth the effort.

Music in this episode is Labile Polvere by Mattia Vlad Morleo, from https://www.jamendo.com.

The full review text will be online at https://www.noformatblog.ca in a few days.

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Enter the thrilling medical world of Heads! This 1985 book by David Osborn is...not great. Have a listen for my thoughts on the book (and be warned, there are spoilers in this episode!)

The full review in text form will be posted later this week on www.noformatblog.ca.

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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!

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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. So dive in with me!

The theme music in today's episode is titled "Hor Hor" by composer Alexander Nakarada, and is available under a public domain license.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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