Marc's books wot I read

This is the first book I've read by Geoffrey Marsh.  It is however, probably the sixty somethingth book I've read by this writer. Th...

  Whoops, is this my first King read of the year?  I need to get one of his full works down my eyeballs soon. We all know the story here, Ha...

  Where do I start with this one? This is not a good book, and the review may contain some spoilers. Romance is not my genre, but I have fou...

  Many moons ago, in the days when I still had a full head of hair and barely needed to shave once a fortnight, I played Harry Hardcastle in...

Now this was just poor in virtually every aspect of storytelling. The artwork is good although it does seem like the worst excesses of early...

  From the multitude of reviews, this is a totally original concept and unique storyline for a book.  It isn't. It's not a bad book ...

  Apparently this is a classic collection of short stories. I know it's what made Carver's name on his side of the Atlantic, but I...

This was a NetGalley ARC read in exchange for a fair review. Joe hill continues the family tradition of the 900 plus page horror blockbuster...

  My regular readers out there will know that I am a big fan of AM Shine, even if I do get frustrated with some of his endings. This was a N...

  After 200 pages of walls of text with no paragraph breaks in the last book I read, the format of this book was a blessed relief. This is w...

  This was a DNF for several reasons. The main one is that after 200 pages I still had no inkling of any type of story and there has been at...

  Florida's greatest satirist returns with one of his most polemical novels to date. I can't imagine any Trump supporters reading th...

  The second volume of this unusual feminist take on the werewolf legend. I actually found this much more entertaining than volume 1.  Packe...

Book 42 as ever has to be Hitchhikers related.  This is one of the few that I'd not already read.  Based on one line from HHTTG (about t...

  At long last, the fourth book in Somtow's remarkable trilogy about the real life slave boy who became Empress of Rome under  Emperor N...

  More of Keanu Reeves imagining himself as an eternal assassin with more blood lust than the entire Mongol hordes. The artwork is pretty da...

  This is the follow up to Hammers On Bone which I read last year and greatly enjoyed. This one is even better.  Deacon James is a blues mus...

  Talk about a change of pace.  From the dark gritty historical horror of Otessa Moshfegh, to the whimsical ramblings of Rachel Joyce When m...

It's 1851 and McGlue wakes up from an alcoholic bender in the brig of a cargo ship.  He's told he murdered his friend and colleague ...

No prizes to regular readers of this blog as to why I bought this book. Anything with a cute kitty on the cover :)  Also it sounded more tha...