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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark Marinovich
Goodreads Author
Born
in San Francisco, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2016
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The White Boats
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Seacliff Park
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A Boutique Safari
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How Noir Crept In While I Wrote Seacliff Park
The overlapping Prohibition and Depression eras between 1920 and 1933 played a major role in the rise of noir fiction and coincide with the timeline of my new historical thriller, Seacliff Park. The period inspired stories about bootleggers, crooked cops, disillusioned citizens, and survival in a corrupt world. Because their dark, ominous character, the stories became known as “noir fiction.” I in
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"I don’t normally review books I don’t finish. However, after reading dialogue like this: “The Lawd God sees it all. He keepin’ sco’. That’s why the grass don’t grow up under dem trees.” I decided to DNF it and thought other potential readers should b"
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"DNF. Sneak attack Christian novel. If that’s your jam though then I think you will love it! It’s triggering my religious trauma so I’m out homie. Made it 30% through. Final straw was “I’m not sure I know the answer to that either. But God does.” "
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"Good Reads reviewers, you’ve let me down. I don’t know how this book has such good ratings. It is the worst book I’ve read all year.
It’s ridiculously didactic. You should only read this if you want someone to rant to you about being a nice person. A" Read more of this review » |
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rated a book it was amazing
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Mark Marinovich
rated a book really liked it
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| A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles’ highly rated 464-page novel (paperback edition), covers a lot of ground: Russian history, political oppression, food and wine connoisseurship, the meaning of family—both actual and found—and more. The story is told ...more | |
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Mark Marinovich
joined the group
Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers
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Mark Marinovich
is now following Jamie Rosenblit's reviews
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Mark Marinovich
rated a book it was ok
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| I recently read my first Cormac McCarthy novel—No Country for Old Men. I really enjoyed it, run-on sentences and spare punctuation notwithstanding. I quickly settled into the story’s distinctive style and rhythms, and was engrossed from page one by i ...more | |
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