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A book club - with a difference.

Lotus

Someone asked today if there is a book club, so I thought I'd try starting one. Not the usual type of club where everyone reads the same book - I thought we could write a synopsis of a book we've recently read, to give each other ideas for new books to read.

I have a Kindle subscription, so all of mine will be available on there for people who also subscribe.

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  • I finally finished the book I had just started when the thread was created (it being fairly large and not having a lot of reading time), it was the close of the first phase of the Stormlight archive by Brandon Sanderson. (He's planned it as a grand epic of 10, split into two sections). 

    Though I'd read the other 4 in the series, it had been a while since the last one, and picking up the 5th installment I suddenly realised one of the characters is autistic (I didn't know about autism when I read the others, and looked it up and yes the author confirmed it as cannon). A lot fo the characters have mental health issues, but in the last book they were dealt with in a bit of a heavy handed way.

    On the whole though, it wasn't the 'end' to the set I was hoping for, as the last books in the set especially seemed less about what makes a good story and more setting up the next set of books. 

    I always liked the different worlds Sanderson created in his books, they all felt like a different substance and colour, but now he's doing stuff to link them all together now, and when you mix lots of colours together, it's not a rainbow, but murky paint water. Maybe that's me and being autistic, but I don't like when different stories and 'magic systems' get all folded in together. I prefer them seperate, so not sure if I want to read the later books he plans. I'd still reccommend the start of the series though (the first 3 are brilliant).

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  • I finally finished the book I had just started when the thread was created (it being fairly large and not having a lot of reading time), it was the close of the first phase of the Stormlight archive by Brandon Sanderson. (He's planned it as a grand epic of 10, split into two sections). 

    Though I'd read the other 4 in the series, it had been a while since the last one, and picking up the 5th installment I suddenly realised one of the characters is autistic (I didn't know about autism when I read the others, and looked it up and yes the author confirmed it as cannon). A lot fo the characters have mental health issues, but in the last book they were dealt with in a bit of a heavy handed way.

    On the whole though, it wasn't the 'end' to the set I was hoping for, as the last books in the set especially seemed less about what makes a good story and more setting up the next set of books. 

    I always liked the different worlds Sanderson created in his books, they all felt like a different substance and colour, but now he's doing stuff to link them all together now, and when you mix lots of colours together, it's not a rainbow, but murky paint water. Maybe that's me and being autistic, but I don't like when different stories and 'magic systems' get all folded in together. I prefer them seperate, so not sure if I want to read the later books he plans. I'd still reccommend the start of the series though (the first 3 are brilliant).

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