Tag Archives: love

Happy 2024

Posted on December 31, 2023 by J D Jung

( by JD Jung)   We at UnderratedReads wish all our readers a safe and Happy New Year filled with health, love, justice, and tolerance throughout 2024 and beyond. We have discovered so many magnificent books during 2023, and since … Continue reading →

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Visualize Yourself: Designing the Outcome of Your Life, One Issue at a Time – Aileen Nealie

Posted on December 22, 2023 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) #CommissionsEarned “This is you breaking free from your current reality. Dare to expand. Dare to grow. Design your path. You have a say in everything.” Reading Visualize Yourself by Aileen Nealie is like giving your mind … Continue reading →

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An UnderratedRead Revisited:Blind Dates: Weird Stories – Harambee K. Grey-Sun

Posted on October 29, 2023 by J D Jung

Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned Being close to Halloween, I was in search for a good horror read. So, when I started reading these stories, I was expecting them to center on blind dates gone tragically wrong. Or maybe the … Continue reading →

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Trash – Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, (translated by JD Pluecker)

Posted on March 21, 2023 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Who is the person who makes a life out of our leftovers? And, more specifically, what makes us who we are?” Griselda, a researcher, studies those who inhabit the Juárez city dump. She balances that … Continue reading →

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Tower of the Sun – Tomihiko Morimi (Translated by Stephen Kohler)

Posted on November 13, 2022 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Even if the tides of time take to trumpeting tender togetherness, should we not remain alert to the dangers of praising love? Love is irrational. It is a dark passion that swirls in the depths … Continue reading →

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Ti Amo – Hanne Ørstavik (translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken)

Posted on September 13, 2022 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “I look at you and tears run down my face, yet I feel nothing, no grief, no sadness, I can’t feel at all. Is it true, is it actually true, is my love really intense … Continue reading →

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty-Akwaeke Emezi 

Posted on May 24, 2022 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned I must admit that I’m not a romantic, and I very seldom read romance novels. That said, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi takes this genre to … Continue reading →

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Love, Death & Rare Books – Robert Hellenga

Posted on April 29, 2022 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “I want to live life, not read about it.” That is what people kept telling Chicago bookseller Gabe Johnson, who came from generations of rare book dealers. With the growth of online bookstores, even his … Continue reading →

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Blind Dates: Weird Stories – Harambee K. Grey-Sun

Posted on October 27, 2021 by J D Jung

Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned Being close to Halloween, I was in search for a good horror read. So, when I started reading these stories, I was expecting them to center on blind dates gone tragically wrong. Or maybe the … Continue reading →

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Cenotaphs – Rich Marcello

Posted on July 30, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “If you live long enough, most people leave, a few by staying true to themselves, more by death, indifference, or being driven away. “ Seventy-five-year-old retiree Ben Sanna realizes that no one has stayed with him … Continue reading →

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