Recent content by Rowan

I think you’ll like it. It’s a quite pacy read and leans as heavily into the Indianapolis side of the story as it does the Pre-Jaws Quint side. Quint as a character is just wild but the context behind Quint is very well (and respectfully) told. But it’s generally absolutely crazy. I picked it...

Book 10. Quint by Robert Lautner Absolutely bonkers. I loved it!

Whitley Bay library in this case 😂

Book 9 - The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers Not sure how well known Myers is outside the UK. Especially considering most of his books focus very much on the North of England (I.e the best bit) but if people have a chance to give him a read he’s pretty good. He’s also quite prolific so there’s...

I’m pretty surprised they’ve hung on this long. The company is basically just Matt plus one these days? Right? Someone may buy the brand as a repressing label but I think their goose is cooked as a single company.

I think the rotting corpse is still more Monty Python Black Knight at the minute but there are only so many body parts

And The Trees which is equally brilliant. But he also wrote Dr. No and I'm Not Sydney Poitier which are kinda middling to not great. The dangers of being ridiculously prolific. His short stories are well worth checking out too though

Ooooh. Is that one of those machine washable ones? How’s it hold up. Doggo has murdered a few in his time so I’ve thought about them a few times.

There’s a part of me that thinks the rebel in Matt is determined to leave absolutely nothing to creditors… even if that means VMP needing to fulfil orders and do good deeds.

I was amazed when I actually got a shipping notification on my last order. Was sure it would just be a case of order in, cash in the bin (or credit in this case but that was cash once upon a time to start with). I was a little down about cancelling my nonesuch orders. Now I just think it means...

Although there's the inevitable dilemma of cancel now and you'll not get a record from them in April or don't cancel now... and you'll not get a record off them in April. A buyers life in the sticky world of insolvent subscription grifters

Book 8 - The Librarianist by Patrick Dewitt Was a really easy choice to pick this one off the shelf after enjoying The Sisters Brothers so much a few weeks back. Took it away as a bit of holiday reading and smashed through it a couple of chapters at a time over the week. Quick review - it’s...

Looks like my last ever VMP order has been shipped after a mini credit bonfire. Which is a nice surprise as I thought I’d never see that order. However the order isn’t great as their store is currently filled with either stuff I have or stuff I didn’t really want

Book Seven Ok so this is good. In fact it’s really good. Tells a narrative about a young couple who move to Berlin over a 10 ish year period (in under 120 pages). When I read the synopsis I thought the characters could potentially be quite grinding but the book is a solid narrative with no...

Took them three weeks to refund my last lot