As this one was of the choices from last months reading group unknowingly I did not realise how big of a read ‘The Passage’ would be, at a whopping 1059 pages! I had a feeling that this could be a book that would be long drawn and a book I may not finish.However, despite reading …
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A Shiver of Snow and Sky
As from the previous month, this is a book which is of the Fantasy genre, whereby some say its a Polar Fantasy whether that is a genre or not I am not sure. A Shiver of Snow and Sky takes place on the fictitious island of Skane, with its Polar landscape of snow and mountains …
Eye of the World
This was the first book of a fantasy genre I had read in a few years. Eye of the world is the first book of the wheel of time series which consists of 14 books. The book starts in a world where women are part a group called Aes Sedai who are the ones who …
Shantaram
Shantaram tells an amazing story of events that happened during Gregory David Robert’s time in Bombay during the 1980s. Gregory David Roberts was Australia’s most wanted man after escaping prison after being convicted for armed robberies to fuel his heroin addiction. During his time in Bombay, he tells some truly amazing events such as running …
Digital Fortress Review
Our second month’s books were Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and fan fiction book, Harry Potter and the methods of rationality by Eliezer Yudkovsky. Due to the small amount I read of the fan fiction book which was I feel I can not review it myself, however others from the group may do so. Digital …
Island by Alduous Huxley Book review
Our first book for the group was Island by Alduous Huxley, published back in 1962 is famous for his dystopian novel Brave New World in his early days of being an author. Since Brave New World he became intrigued in what was seen as mysticism such as meditation and psychedelics, but nowadays has a proved …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Shrewsbury Readers Group 